Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week

• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am serious because fuck this streaming shit.

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  • loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the spirit! If you know your way around Linux admin, docker and such, don’t hesitate to dive into jellyseerr + *arr + Jellyfin, it was much simpler to set up than I expected. Once everything’s up and running, the experience is far superior to any commercial streaming service.

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re speaking Greek but I’ll figure it out. I always do.

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      • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The trash-guides they posted are for a majority of the “arr” stack (Sonarr, Radarr, etc) that monitor stuff you ask for and automate a lot of the download handling.

        Jellyfin is a FOSS media server alternative to Plex. They each have their minor pluses and minuses. Personally plex has been easier to get non-techie friends/family to use my system too.

        Docker is a containerization system. Basically instead of setting up a physical computer, or one or more virtual machines, you have a self contained bundle of everything a program needs to run that is linked to storage/network stuff on your actual system. Then they talk to each other.

        One thing to keep in mind is that this is all immensely scalable. Especially if you don’t care about long term storage of a bunch of shows/movies. You can set it up on your personal PC and it’ll work fine. Set it up on a dedicated machineand it’ll be a bit more reliable. Moving stuff around is generally pretty painless. ( as long as the trash-guides or some similar standardization is followed )

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  • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The setup can be a bit overwhelming but please message me if you get stuck on anything!

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re sweet,thank you!

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• unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish I hadn’t went quit on acid lounge for so long… my account was closed due to inactivity (Netflix was a nice option way back then)

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• gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I keep seeing Usenet mentioned for downloading media, but I’ve never tried it; I’ve stuck with torrents because they’re free and what I’m familiar with. Is paying for Usenet access worth it, is it more straightforward to use with the *arr stack, is there more content available?

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  • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IMO Usenet is worth the cost. It’s a different process than torrenting, with some extra steps, but once you wrap your head around it it’s fairly simple. Depending on the indexer you use, Usenet can be much better organized and easier to find what you’re looking for.

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    • gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!

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  • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The nice part about Usenet is it’s basically full saturation of your internet line, so if you have a gigabit line, it will come as close as possible to running downloads at that speed. Frugal Usenet is $60 for their annual account, in my opinion it’s worth it just for speed alone. I pay for Usenet ninja as well as a secondary account for failed downloads.

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