Participating in a boycott this month? You should be doing all that stuff period.
DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
Submitted 15 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704402
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ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Nah shop Amazon when it costs them money. As in, you know you are buying at or below cost.
I just bought a few things from Amazon, cheaper than any competition to begin with, but also used the last of my Amazon rewards balance.
Then put everything on a 0% interest offer and religiously pay the minimum until the last bill, and pay it all off then. Just don’t forget.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
That’s too much work. I just don’t buy from Amazon.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
I was kinda pissed when I bought a reasonably priced commodity on eBay and it was delivered in Amazon packaging by an Amazon truck, though.
I’ve noticed this too, if the same thing’s slightly more on eBay it’s probably someone ordering it for you on Amazon and pocketing the difference
Aneb@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Theres like 80% of the population that still actively shop at Target and Amazon Prime. People buy from Whole Foods instead of the small “mom and pop” European market on the corner.
luridness@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Odd choice just pirate and teach others how to aswell. Hurts in this case Netflix way more
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Pirating can be legally cut off. DVDs can’t
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
They’ve been trying for how long now? The pirates always win in the end.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
With streaming companies owning the content, buying DVDs is just another way of financially supporting the same companies for worse quality.
Even when one platform is taken down, there are new ones launched in their place. Nothing guarantees that DVDs will continue to be produced in perpetuity, just as digital copies of video games are progressively becoming less and less prevalent.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Theres a way to combine the best of both of them :)
pemptago@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
How does one keep their system secure with all that torrenting? A large mkv of a new movie seems like an effective container to deliver a payload.
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Yes but after a while you may start to yearn for some rarer things as well. There’s still lots of pre-lost media out there on rotting dvds waiting for custodianship that I haven’t been able to find online. There’s also some newer HD rereleases having single channel and lower quality or something, so finding the original dvds is better sometimes.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Dang it, I’m already boycotting them because i want to actually own my media and support local businesses and a bunch of other reasons, how am I supposed to boycott them harder to include capitulation to Trump?!
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
The last two years I started going to garage sales for DVDs/Blu Rays.
It’s been great. You can get like 5-10 movies for the price of a month of Netflix. Then you can sell them next spring for $5-10 and buy $5-10 worth from someone else of stuff you haven’t seen.
homes@piefed.world 13 hours ago
although I doubt this will get much of any mainstream coverage, as someone who has been setting up/administering a number of plex servers for the last ~20 years, I have noticed a rather remarkable uptick in not only setting up new servers, but a flood of interest in membership for the handful that I administer.
This has had the interesting side-effect of renewing interest in the fact that you can borrow DVDs/BRDs for free from your local library for the purposes of ripping them. Believe me– you may think that, in 2026, everything is available for download very easily…. _no, it isn’t_ Yes, much more is widely available at (generally) much higher quality than it used to be, but it all relies on how popular a show/film/album is (and continues to be). If you’re looking to dl something new/current, you’ll very likely have a 2 week - 3 month window it will very reliably be available to download. after that, whether it’s available (and for how long) depends entirely on how popular it remains.
Example: The “New Trek” that most old-school Trekkies hate is less-available than, say, a mega download of all 7 seasons of DS9. DS9 is probably available (as a single download and as single seasons/episodes) much more easily than any episode of STD. Or, even, the JJ Abrahms films. Shit, even the Rifftrax commentary version of ST II has more seeders on more torrent sites than any of the 3 JJ Treks. And, to put a pin in this… Star Trek Lower Decks is even more available now than it was when it was airing.
The cool flip-side of this: I never got to see the iconic Fritz Lang film _M_ in the pre-torrent era because I could never find a Blockbuster’s that carried it in stock. But, as soon as that barrier to see it was removed (availability), I got to see the prototypical murder mystery thriller film which, still today, holds up as pretty awesome.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 6 hours ago
The website would be better if there was also links or resources to alternate.
But also that’s hard depending on where you are.
zerosouls@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
Dusted off the mp3s too. Long live VLC
ch00f@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Just missed Bandcamp Friday.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
With how much storage costs these days? I’ll stick with MP3.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown
Oh ffs, they’re not doing enoigh because they’ve submitted to him! They literally went to his inauguration to kiss the ring!
But better late then never I suppose
pemptago@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
And before that, where did people think money-grubbing, morally-bankrupt billionaires vacuuming up all their data was going to lead? This was all but inevitable, especially when, without outrage-based engagement algorithms there is no President Trump. These scumbags prop each other up. Don’t give them a dime or let them profit off your attention.
termaxima@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
No, we don’t “Believe they are not doing enough to oppose”, you slimy bastards ; we “KNOW that they are ACTIVELY HELPING”
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 hours ago
Blurays are better quality than streaming.
4K Bluray is the highest quality you’ll ever get in your home by like, a lot.
Streaming is a regression.