Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE

• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I stream movies using Alldebrid via Kodi or Stremio. This way I have the convenience of streaming and the quality of BluRays. I buy the BluRay if I like the movie and the disc is on sale

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• Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me to but I skip the purchasing BluRay and ripping it part.

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• MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do you ever use any of the Bluray “connected” features where your disc wants internet access to fulfill the function? I must say, that’s a major turnoff for me.

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• PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Now it’s expensive to even build ones of those servers. I just play my discs and rip them to a hdd collection. I just do it the ghetto way by having a usb hub hooked up to an nvidia shield with some hdds.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not. I have a server with dozens of TBs of storage which is a 2011 Lenovo tower I got for free out of someone’s garage. It doesn’t take a whole lot to store things.

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    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah but HDDs are going up in price now

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      • bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I got started in high school, broke high school me shucked drives from used computers.

        A lot of people throw away perfectly good computers. Or sell them for very cheap because they take up space.

        Those reject computers, if you find the right one, could have 500gb-2gb ssds in them that are perfect for media server usage.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        To a degree yes, but not nearly as bad as other components right now. You can at the very least buy a single “small” HDD like 4TB for pretty cheap that is far more than what you’d get from big tech on an average storage plan.

        This is subject to change but as of today, you can get this for cheap

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  • greybeard@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not really, Jellyfin will run just fine on old hardware. You don’t need a lot of power to do it. That said, if a USB HDD works for you, that’s fine too.

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    • Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I assumed that they didn’t have old hardware lying around, in which case they are not incorrect as they will need at the very least 8gb to run the server effectively which by itself is approx $100 unless your looking at the second hand market.

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The cool thing about USB HDDs - when one dies, you just plug in another one - no issues with funky formatting, windows/linux compatibility or whatever. I had the power supply die on a QNAP NAS once… only once because even though the HDDs inside the NAS were fine, QNAP basically made the data on them inaccessible from any other system - no more proprietary NAS systems for me, thanks.

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• NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  your also foregoing the special commentary and otber BTS content.

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