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What's with the "ooga booga woman scared by tech" meme? Like, people have been torrenting for ages, it's not like it's underground.
And just have it downloaded? "Hey, wanna come over and watch ____? Yes? Cool, see you then." Then start the download. If it's popular, you'll have the file in, like, 10 minutes. And if she's that "confused" by an hdmi cable (which is an extremely common cable these days, but whatever), put it on a flash drive and plug that in. And if someone is interested, I can't imagine setting something up would make them leave? "Oh gosh, he had a laptop and a... A cable, you say? Well golly gee, I should run away from this fringe tech afficionado because who does that???"
I don't know why some guys act like tech just washed over women. We were there sailing the same high seas as the rest of ya'll.
"What do you mean the movie will come from the laptop?" Boy, bye
Tech literacy has peaked hard with millenials.
I like your comment because it tells me why I didn't found this that much funny.
I thought it was supposed to be an old person confused
I like that. Anon just likes hanging with cougars, even if they're not always tech savvy.
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I'm choosing to interpret it as her getting skeeved out over anon not having their shit together.
>not downloading the movie in advance
>not knowing about the "download in sequential order" option on the client that lets you start watching quickly
That makes more sense 🤔 Guess jokes on me for assuming it was the other way lmao
no, that was the point of the original post. I just decided to imagine a better version in my head D:
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This is why you have a server running jellyfin qbittorent, Jackett, sonarr, radarr, all behind a good VPN.
Anon is obviously a noob and deserves the walkout.
do you know of any good guides that explain how to set up a full stack like this? I've been meaning to level up my movie watching game but don't know how these services interact with each other
No sorry, I did it all manually with my own custom docker setup. I'm sure there are guides out there though.
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Jellyfin > plex?
FOSS always > everything else.
The iPad with VLC works great for portability too.
But that means you use a Apple device so you are a noob and deserve the walkout.
What fantasy world do you live in? Any man who can pull out a simple apple machine and make everything work must be a normie and will win the hearts of many
If she doesn’t like my slavish devotion to foss alongside my extensive collection of katanas then she’s simply not the one for me
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Yeah I was SSHing the movies to it directly from my server but I doubt you know what that is.
Oh I guess I have to quit my job then :(
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Mostly what i see is a lack of preparedness. If i had a date over the movie would be downloaded and the TV plugged in a week in advance.
Oh, I'm old and wasn't sure why a person was in their house who wasn't aware that they watched pirated stuff. Being annoyed that everything wasn't set up ahead of time makes sense, but anyone who cares about things being pirated isn't worth dating anyway.
Manual torrenting? Fucking hell, that's some weak ass shit, i have all my shit on my plex/jellyfin server
If she doesn't know what a hdmi cable is I'm boiling her into a stew.
50 tabs? She dodged a bullet.
Rookie numbers. Real chads have >100.
That was a close save! I wouldn’t fuck a blind consumer with your dick…
But how about someone else's?
My wife has learned the way of stremio and loves it, there is hope!
I'll either watch pirated content or nothing at all. Having a bunch of streaming services that you pay out the ass for is a turn off for me because it suggests a lack of financial responsibility. Deal with it.
Having a bunch of streaming services that you pay out the ass for is a turn off for me because it suggests a lack of financial responsibility
I don't have a problem with people paying for things. I just don't know why people pay for things when they don't actually get freedom from that service in return. It's all DRM-encumbered crap
You do realize there's a middleground there, right?
I buy the content I want and rip it to my NAS to stream to my TV. My total cost is less than streaming services (I don't watch a lot), but I do pay for the content. So the only complication on my network is if my NAS turns off, in which case I'll just walk over and powercycle it and we're good. One great part is that if my internet dies (it seems to go out like once/month), I can still stream whatever, so my setup is better IMO than streaming services.
Subscriptions are for suckers, but that doesn't mean piracy is the only alternative. I only pirate stuff I can't get legally at a reasonable price (e.g. old movies/shows, streaming service exclusives, etc).
Exactly. Couple years ago when everything was on netflix I gladly gave them money but now it feels like every season of every somewhat good show is on a different platform.
Yup. That's why I cancelled my Disney+ sub (just bought the 3-4 shows my kids watch) and I'm pushing my wife to cancel Netflix. We'd rather not pirate, but I'm not going to keep paying for a sub that either has ads (screw that) or isn't worth the price of content.
I've been a Netflix sub for ~10 years, and now I'm trying to cancel because their value prop has fallen off a cliff.
I've had a lot of different setups over the years on my TV to see if my family (all "what's a computer?" level of computer illiterate) could get the hang of it, and the one that clicked for all of them was Stremio+torrentio. Pop in a debrid service to avoid downtime/buffering issues and they've never complained since.