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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re going up again?

  I dropped all of those. I just have a couple services now.

  CBC Gem (mostly to support CanCon and local media), one streamer, and I migrated to Qobuz for music.

  I’m the spring I’ll go to yard sales for dvds/blu rays. They’re like a dollar there, which is reasonable.

  A ton of content I liked is now owned by fascists and Larry Ellison, so I don’t even want to buy new media anymore.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you know what ORACLE stands for?

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No

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    • msokiovt@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wonder of Palantir is connected to Oracle. Likely so.

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• tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No illusions on my part. RAID5 NAS with periodic disk archive backups.

  • Books
  • Audiobooks
  • Retro game ROMs
  • FLAC music collection
  • Movies, TV, and anime series

  Got what I need locally and intend to keep it that way. I’m sick of sites like Amazon with “Buy Now” buttons that are really “rent now via restrictive terms and only via devices we approve until we decide you no longer need access.”

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  maybe I’ve been living under a rock but I don’t get all this emphasis on hosting. What’s wrong with having a file on your device that you just play when you want to

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  • groet@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That is the smallest scale of self hosting. The server and the client are the same device. It is also the most insecure way as you probably don’t have any backups and very limited storage space.

    Actually self hosting is the next step when you decide you want 5+ TB of data and have it automatically create backups. Digital storage media degrade pretty quickly and if you just have your movies on a hard drive in your computer, after 5-10 years you might start to lose quality or some files completely.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What a lie use zfs or btrfs it solves those. I’ve been using zfs for probably close to 10 years and have never had a flip yet. And yes I scrub my pool.

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    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      While true, neither backups nor checksums are exclusive to hosting anything.

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    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      start to lose quality

      Wait… That’s a thing? You can lose video quality off a video file on a HD over time?

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  • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s nothing wrong with that, but self hosting opens up so much more flexibility, much like cloud hosted services we’re used to. Jellyfin is like a personal Netflix where you can watch your movies on any device at any time. The convenience is obvious. For mose cloud hosted services, there’s an alternative that can be self hosted.

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  • damo_omad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You do have the file on a device… On a server, and you can play it on any client you like

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  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mainly just multi-device access.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Self-hosting allows you to have all your files on all your devices, like many have used to with the streaming services. Also, some smart TVs specifically require to connect to some server to grab movies from.

    If you don’t need any of that, regular hard drive will suit you best.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For me, it’s a matter of restoring the convenience and UX that you’ve given up by leaving the big providers.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  laughs in pirate data archivist

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  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Alternatively, your setup is kinda slow and you’re kinda lazy (not used pejoratively).

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• Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sooo… where’s the self-hosted material coming from if Bluray’s aren’t being produced any more?

  If the high seas dries up, are we up shit creek and have to stream?

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  • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Webrips. That’s how we get movies and shows today without waiting for physical media being released

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    • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Aye but where be it the Captain’s are getting these Webrips be the question. Thar answer be the streaming services me mate’ee. It be their content pirates be plunderin’.

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  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If the high seas dry up, we shall sail the skies or the stars.

    Adapt, improvise, overcome.

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  • mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If the high seas dries up, are we up shit creek and have to stream?

    Actually support people who distribute under more reasonable terms/use Creative Commons/release to public domain.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, piracy is the last bastion of privately controlled media files

    Doesn’t seem like it’s going away though

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    • Saltarello@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Until they enforce government ID verification on every website & ban VPN’s. Mark my words, that’s what they’ll try to push under the guise of “save the children”

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If the high seas dry up I’ll just hit my local public library and get all the books and other media from there

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They we go back to the old days of making or own recordings, which can be done through screen capture if DRM can’t be cracked by the regular person.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The thrift store?

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• Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My dad and I never stopped pirating since we began watching series together since 2005.

  Skill issue

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• metaStatic@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The price of ownership is maintenance.

  Prices keep rising because people will pay ANY price to avoid personal responsibility.

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m probably going to be allowing most of my streaming subscriptions to lapse over the next year or two. Gonna stick with Dropout and PBS, but that might be all.

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  • pemptago@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    +1 for PBS streaming. It’s a great value and highly underrated.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can’t hear you over my 10TB storage disk of movies.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Rookie.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      k

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  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Imagine not having a double digit number NAS with triple digit number Tebibytes.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well…I preferred double parity for my 4-bay NAS :p

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  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hopefully it’s all U2 nvme drives and not ancient sata drives. Those are for either dinosaurs or shudders poor people

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah. I obviously will pay for an all-flash storage array at home.
      Bro I am not american and not unbelievable wealthy.

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• oyzmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Personally fed up with the greedy streaming companies. Price hikes, movies and series disappearing, lower quality because you don’t pay for the premium deluxe 2.0 subscription, and the most annoying of all: advertisements, even though you do pay $$ for premium deluxe ultra 3.0 pro max subscription.

  Selfhost 🙌🏻😊- music is always available, same with movies. Perfect!

  …well, almost perfect. It really is quite expensive, but also very fun and rewarding getting it to work.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The expenses are mostly upfront though. I’ve spent like $400 on a relatively fancy NAS and two 3TB WD Red CMR drives five years ago, and since then, there was that.

    Of course, depending on your use case, there could be extra expenses as well, some of them recurring: -Bigger drives -Backup storage (I already had a place I could back up to) -Domain name and DNS records (if you expose it to the public Web with a URL; you can otherwise just use a VPN tunnel to access NAS from outside the home network, which is free unless you do anything fancy) -Some kind of paid software (if you don’t enjoy the perfectly good collection of open-source apps) -Etc.

    Now, for the streaming alternative: Netflix Standard: $18/mo Spotify: $12/mo Total: $30/mo, or $360/yr. Just these two services alone.

    Your NAS system will pay off in a little over a year (maybe two years if you go all in with huge drives, fancy NAS configs, extra expenses here and there), and it’s smooth sailing from there.

    My unit works for 5 years already with no maintenance, is still fully supported by the manufacturer, and I don’t expect to replace it in a few more years.

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• irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Problem isn’t the hosting, it’s the content licensing. It’s difficult to get a legal copy of the content that you can actually possess. Without that, doesn’t matter if you are streaming the content through self-hosted servers or playing it locally. It’s the content itself that is the real issue. It’s often just not “sold” only “licensed” or “rented”.

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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, it is over. The selection is shit, they pull shows that they have the rights to to manipulate people into watching what they want. The value of services like Netflix being a one stop shop for content are long gone. Enshitification in the name of control has reared its ugly head and the value is gone.

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• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I guess I’m a unicorn in that Netflix or equal has no draw for me. I’m not a movie watcher. I’m more interested in how they made it vs the actual movie content itself. I don’t even watch TV or any kind. I have no Spotify or equal, music streaming platform. I just can’t take the incessant ads every couple songs, and it’s the same flipping ad over and over. Instead, I listen to my music collection which is fairly large, most of it from my days of running a licensed internet radio station back in the pre-Napster days, and read. Not much into fiction or novels etc. Give me history, news, anything to do with computers, etc. I mean, the internet is a vast repository of data, and I have yet to surf to the end of it. At no other time in human history have we had the sum total of the world’s knowledge, maybe not wisdom, but knowledge, resting in the palm of our hand or sitting on a desktop. The great libraries of Alexandria would look like my magazine rack in comparison. I just find that reading helps me digest the information better, and in the case of news, it allows me to cross reference, highlight, search, compare ad nauseam, in search of the truth trifecta, which you’ll never get on your TV screen.

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• Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meanwhile poor and old fashioned me just burning it into DVD.

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• Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Self-Hosting? What happened to saving things onto a hard drive?

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    that’s self-hosted.

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  • KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Self hosting essentially stores all of your data on your hard drive, but it also allows access to that via local network (while at home) and over internet via secured tunnel (e.g. Wireguard tunnel, Tailscale) while away from home.

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  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There was a time when I had an old desktop packed full of spinning hard drives in my living room under a CRT television! Yes that works, but a NAS in the furnace room that is accessible from “smart TVs” and everyone’s mobile devices is pretty nice. No more fan noise either.

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    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This comment prompted me to look for a picture of it. Nothing I can find, except in the background behind a baby picture of my now-in-university baby when I was apparently debugging the network connection:

      CRT tv with a linux console doing some networking stuff

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Self-hosting is saving to a hard drive. The difference is how it’s accessed. If you save it to a (presumably portable?) hard drive, you can only access it from the hard drive. “Self-hosting” allows it to be stored on a hard drive, inside a server, which is then accessible from anywhere, on any device, at any time.

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• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nah, federation is a valid alternative to self hosting

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  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In what way? You don’t own anything on the fediverse. The people who run the various instances do.

    Maybe they even have a TOS that says you own it, but then what? its still up to them to continue to host it, and they have no contract with you.

    Unless you are self hosting your own instance, and only count what is on that, you own no more than with larger social media sites.

    To be clear, I think that federations certainly are better than monolithic sources for a variety of reasons for real people, but they aren’t a solution for ownership.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    disagree. legally a government can forcefully take down a community but it’s far more difficult to police a physical ring of pirates.

    pirating in the late 90s early 2000s was mostly done through physical interaction. you could download content from places like Napster, limewire, etc, but the volume of which content spread the fastest was at LAN parties.

    I filled up a brand new 250gb drive after one LAN party in 2002. I still have all that content 23 years later.

    point is, if we could harness the power of a “trust” content sharing would run rampant.

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    • DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So we should do LAN parties again then!

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re going to “own” digital content through…federation? How does that work?

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• theoneandonlyeggboi@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thanks for reminding me. I still have shows I need to download.

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• MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The only stabbing services that make sense to me are the niche ones that focus on original content.

  Wrestling streaming services like njpw world, trillerTV, or wrestle universe, specialised libraries like Shudder.

  Generalised shit for mainstream content is not worth the money.

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