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Comment on Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan

I remember when Netflix first introduced the ad supported plan and a lot of people were like this is how they make you pay extra to not see ads, and a lot of other people called that fud because it’s an additional tier and the normal tier isn’t impacted.

At the time I was yelling that it was just the first step - create an ad free plan, wait for people to calm down, then raise the prices until the ad supported plan costs as much as the ad free one used to. And there you have it, they charged extra to not see ads, just with extra steps.

I quit Netflix back then and I’m so glad I did. $10/mo in electricity gets me every streaming service on my Plex, that’s like a $100/mo value and I get to share it with all my friends.

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kakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
These things are so frustrating, because it’s so clearly inevitable, but so many people always insist it won’t happen. Again and again.

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- jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Shit started with cable tv in the early 80s. Same old shit. Tiger can’t change its stripes.
  
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You pay $10 a month for just Plex? That seems expensive for what it is. Maybe get something more efficient?

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- BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Not really just Plex, in addition to powering 6 spinning drives (~50TB total), I also run Nextcloud, immich, Ollama (CPU inference, no GPU), home assistant, grocy, vaultwarden, jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, prowlarr, flaresolverr, and overseerr. I run Plex on a separate Intel nuc10 (also included in that $10 of electricity) which has Intel QuickSync which allows me to transcode ~8 simultaneous 1080 streams to friends while leaving most of the rest of the CPU to everything else like running LLMs on the CPU (it’s cheaper to run larger models on a slower CPU with lots of RAM compared to buying a GPU with a matching amount of vram).
  
  So yeah if you don’t care about n+2 double redundant disks or sharing with more than like 5 people or hosting other apps or running AI while people are streaming then yeah you should totally get something less power hungry. Just the Intel nuc10 I use for Plex (but not media storage) has a TDP of 25W so just that would lower the electricity cost to like $2.50/mo.
  
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  - possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That is way more than Plex
    
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  - jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do you run arch btw?
    
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    BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yep on both my laptops. But I run Ubuntu on my selfhosting nuc and the vps I use as a wireguard reverse proxy - it’s a lot easier to update those every 6 months that way.
    
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