If she doesn’t know what a hdmi cable is I’m boiling her into a stew.
Similar to a Yellow Canary program based on logic principles
Anon should just get Popcornflix. Or torrent ahead of time.
It’s Usenet babe. Get this… it’s been around since 1980! Isn’t that wild, babe? It just goes to show, if a distribution system isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.
A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn’t I do this switch years ago???
How do you get a provider though?
Yeah there was a lot of
googlingduckduckgoing at first. In my case I decided to start out with NewsHosting as provider and nzbgeek as indexer. So far so good
Because they usually cost money
Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesn’t come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions you’d need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, it’s just absolutely worth every penny.
But I wouldn’t know firsthand, because I’m a law abiding citizen, and this is all hypothetical. I just read about it on the internet somewhere.
Comparing to torrents
Usenet via SSL, with a provider that doesn’t log, over torrents any day. The anonymity level, speed, and retention is all worth it.
But they still are more expensive than torrents
So use torrents and get ridiculed by your date.
With usenet you’re not a distributor.
You say that as if it was a plus…
I mean you can be if you want
Oh yeah true, I kinda forgot about that since I’ve been so excited with the results :)
Shit goes missing after like a year
What goes missing?
YouI don’t know how Usenet works.Edit: edited to say I don’t know instead of you.
The files are not stored indefinitely, retention is based on the provider
Thanks! And sorry, I meant to say that I don’t know how Usenet works, not you.
Follow-up question. Why is retention so important? Wouldn’t they get reuploaded again? Or is it mainly a problem for more obscure content.
Torrents persist until all seeders disappear for good, which is rare on private trackers. On usenet generally content is uploaded ASAP upon release and then only lasts as long as rentention. Maybe you’ll get rereleases on usenet but it didn’t seem to be a common occurance
Retention for 90%+ of providers is at least 4500 days for binary files and 110000 days for newsgroups. Have two providers, one monthly and one block, that run on different backbones with one that takes down for dmca and one that doesn’t and you’ll be fine. There are very very very few shows or movies that you can’t get. Don’t have to worry about VPN, ratios, trackers or any of that other crap.
So movies from 2011 and before can not be found?
That’s cool, retention a lot better now than like 10 or 20 years ago
IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if it’s not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Haven’t had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*
“Who is it?”
Yarr matey, we be sailin the high seas alone this fine evenin.
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Meet woman, don’t be weird.
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Gradually build a loving, trusting relationship.
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She has to get surgery and she’ll be bed-bound while she recovers.
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“Will you take care of me, Anon?”
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Lord of the Rings marathon. The director’s cuts. She can’t run.
The long setup. “Babe, you agreed to stay in sickness and in health. This is my sickness.”
Narrator: But she didn’t stay.
She died during the Battle of Helm’s Deep
But inside she was already dead
Return of the King was the first and only movie I’ve seen that had an intermission. Keep in mind this was only the theatrical version!
Then go see 2001 A Space Odyssey. Wait until the IMAX release comes around.
That movie is like taking 500 quaaluds
But what an intermission!
Just do old school style and read her the Silmarillion.
Make sure to get the annotated version.
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Anon needs Jellyfin.
I prefer NGINX with autoindex. Lightweight, no JavaScript, looks like every Linux ISO mirror, filenames already have all the required info, can be quickly searched with CTRL+F, fits perfectly to my laziness.
If you want some improvement, you can use FancyIndex module.
But the files need to be in codecs supported by your browser(s). I prefer AV1+Opus in WebM container which have been supported by Firefox for a while. At this point it’s really only Safari not fully supporting AV1 because it relies on hardware decoding and Apple wants you to buy new hardware.
The biggest issue with that is it requires all of your media to be in a flat folder for search to work right.
Auto index has a mode to return results in json. With a touch of html and js you can make a page that will crawl the directory tree and build a simple searchable cache of name to path, and then you can play it from there. It ends up making a request per folder, but in realistic terms it’s not gonna be enough to actually be noticable.
You can then use something like this on a cron to convert anything your browser can’t play and you’re pretty close to a minimalist media server with only static files.
The one I used to use was just a bash script so I didn’t have to wrangle python modules, but I can’t seem to find it.I ended up dropping it when I bought a nas with all that stuff built in and it generally made my life easier. Worth the money if you can afford it.
Do you just remember where you are in every show (or movie that you only partway watched)? That’s the biggest appeal of jellyfin/plex to me, so I can go in and continue from where I left off without keeping track.
I always finish them.
You always finish an entire TV series?
Not a series, but then yes, I remember where I ended. Or I can just write it on a note if the series is still being made and it will take some time.
That’s absolutely ridiculous. I’m into it.
Sorry, your favorite media server is just files you play on a browser?
I mean, not shaming, I just had never heard of that being preferable to Plex/Emby/Jellyfin.
Yeah, I am too lazy to set up something like Jellyfin. It only makes sense for me with music, for which I use Navidrome. But again, my setup is mostly directory/filename based, so it’s really being carried with m3u playlists as opposed to proper metadata.
I mean, maybe I’ll use Jellyfin if I’ll do something in a proper way, but currently I don’t see the point of it. And anyway, I can always copy the URLs to VLC, which will even accept DVD ISO files.
e.g.:vlc --no-dvdnav-menu http/dvdnav://192.168.49.1:8080/media/ISOs/Interstellar.isolet’s me play entire copy of a DVD, properly with menus and bonus features, just as if I used the DVD directly.
Although I don’t do this anymore because of storage limitations, but I’ll likely return back to it once I’ll have a proper media server and LAN.
Kinda based tho tbh
“If it works, it ain’t stupid” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It can definitely work and be stupid
Yeah my ex wife initially made fun of my server with my Plex media on it…
Guess what she wanted after our divorce? That’s right Plex.
If she scoffs at your media setup she’s wrong for you.
My ex told me she never ever wanted to talk to me ever again, ever!
Next week she texted me asking access my plex server.
Anon doesn’t know about streaming sites.
One site, no torrents, legally good(so far), and all you need is basic ad-blocks to enjoy a Netflix like experience with a better interface.
She deserved a pirate Chad, and she knew it, he has spaghetti falling out his pockets like a soyjack.
Torrents tend to be more reliable quality; around here, they’re both equal in legality/illegality, and you don’t have to think about your Internet connection.
The actual trick is having done it earlier, not trying on the couch right beforehand.
In many places there is a big legal distinction between consuming and distributing copyrighted content, when torrenting you are doing both.
You can opt out of seeding it’s just not very nice
My favourite has always been Stremio + Real-Debrid
Torrent is more reliable than paid a services like Prime Video. My wife got pissed watching one of her shows on Prime. It kept on buffering and quality was trash. I torrented the entire season, put up a JellyFin server. She was so happy.
Tldr: Prime video is trash.
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Stremio + Torrentio makes this sooo much easier
Stremio + Torrentio
dude! Thanks, finally I can watch Ed, Edd & Eddy
I went from Plex + the arrs to this because I moved and couldn’t be bothered to set it up again.
Switch to streaming and use ad blockers. It will be 720/ 1080p max, though. Most people won’t notice. There’s a guide/ wiki on a specific lemmy community.
Also, be honest. Your partner might be tech savvy and not be able to afford entertainment as well. Go for it. That’s how I found my partner.
Not able to afford?
If there was a reasonably-priced ad-free service you could pay for to get complete shows, many would do it.
But this is a joke: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
If there was a reasonably-priced ad-free service
Then I’d still not buy because typical services won’t fool me a third time. Reasonably priced ad free were called cable TV and Netflix. Then, each put ads in and hiked prices. The enshitification of Netflix is now common example of the commodification of an IT product or service.
We created atypical services for reasonably priced ad free content. It now costs me about $120/yr for whatever typical domestic or foreign programming, without ads. For $60/yr it’s domestic programming and few hours instead of a few minutes to grab a program. I also donate directly for some streaming content I enjoy, such as agadmator chess, then watch with an ad blocker. Both are reasonably priced and ad free.
Ha, I mean, it’s not like there is a huge buy-in. If there was a good convenient service again, I’d start using it. When it invariably it goes to shit, I’ll stop paying and go back to downloading. Just like I did with Netflix.
If enough people stopped paying because of their bullshit, maybe that would pave the way for a a platform where you actually feel like you own the shit you paid for.
Ha, I mean, it’s not like there is a huge buy-in.
If one does the math for an average single income US household, a modest broadband connection is 15-20% of their disposable income. They survive on metered cellular.
If there was a good convenient service again, I’d start using it.
I’ll stay right where I’m at, paying less for more and giving more to content creators of substance, and with the convenience of a stable system.
Yeah, I’m poor. Deal with it.
Look, there are enough women in the world for you to stop thirsting after someone who’s just not right for you
If you’re geeky you need a girlfriend that at least vibes with that even if she’s not into it herself for fucks sake
Girl is super geeky, she’s just mad at him for running his laptop on the TV instead of using Plex to watch torrents from his xbox like a normal person.
A normal person would install the client on the TV, Xbox is not needed in this chain.
I used to just glue a cheap android box on the back of my tv. Now i glued an expensive nvidia shield on the back of my tv
This requires having a smart TV.
Finding a dumb TV is challenging.
Just buy a smart one but leave the brain disconnected from the internet
Mate, don’t be weird. Torrent the movie you wanna watch before your girl gets there. Put it in your plex library and boot up Plex on your xbox. Easy peasy. You don’t have to be weird about it.
If she’s not excited to see the download bar move, she’s not getting invited back.
