• tripledip@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Same deal with F1, couldnt renew my F1 sub without getting apple TV. Ive never owned an apple product in my life, not gonna sub to their garbage. Bye F1tv.

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      While it pains me to mention reddit, a certain sub has allowed me to watch basically any region or subscription locked broadcast for F1 and IMSA event I’ve wanted for a while. Just need to make sure the ad blocker is up. There is zero chance I’m subbing to Peacock to watch a handful of sportscar races throughout the year

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      10 days ago

      What really pisses me off is having lived in Las Vegas, where they shut the whole Strip and a bunch of surrounding areas down for this race. Not sure if they do it every time but they also shut down the famous Bellagio fountains and covered the view with ugly scaffolding!

      For the race itself, not only can you only watch it via a subscription stream, they also block off any local infrastructure with a view, such as the pedestrian bridges, so that the only eyes able to actually see the thing happen in our own city on our own streets paid ~$2000 for the privilege.

      The classism on display is insane. The city is all about entertaining the obscenely wealthy globalist class, and the people that make it all run are serfs.

    • DeLancre@piefed.social
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      11 days ago

      Music services still pretty useful. I’m using deezer for example, it can stream lossless audio and kinda okay with “radio” mode. Used spotify before, but it infuriated me by suggesting same music I already heard for 20-50 times. It’s like at some point it just traps you in your own bubble of 100-200 songs.

      The alternative would be downloading thousands of albums in flac and uploading to multiple devices. Plus you need to add new music, which includes searching for that mentioned music. So yeah, nah, I’m okay with paying subscription for now. Until they eventually go to shit like video services did. Then we will need to come up with “popcorn time” alternative for music I guess.

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        11 days ago

        I’m downloading thousands of albums now in a bid to archive and run my own streaming service and let me tell you, I probably won’t ever unsubscribe from Tidal.

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          10 days ago

          Not everyone have static IP and device that can work as server. But yeah, it’s not like you can’t find work around: something like old android phone or spare notebook with pinggy on top would do the trick. Still, point stands - as for now it’s less convenient option.

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            10 days ago

            Not everyone have static IP

            You can use a DDNS

            and device that can work as server

            Yep, if you don’t have any hardware or money that sucks, the hardware costs a lot, what i could buy with 20-30€ costs over the hundreds

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              10 days ago

              what i could buy with 20-30€ costs over the hundreds

              Khm-khm, arm boards, khm-khm

              No like, for real, why 16gb arm board like O6 now costs almost 1k euro? 32gb version right now 1400 euro on aliexpress. FOR WHAT? Finest chinesium?

              And “affordable” Raspberry Pi with as much ram as my toaster (and similar CPU at that) now costs more money, than regular small mini PC on x86.

              You can use a DDNS

              I need to dig into that a bit more, but I’m not sure if it will work with NAT on ISP side (with is a common thing at least in region I’m from).

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                Khm-khm, arm boards, khm-khm

                Even x86 hardware, because everyone is now selling shit without RAM and SSD/HDDs but with the same prices

                I need to dig into that a bit more, but I’m not sure if it will work with NAT on ISP side (with is a common thing at least in region I’m from).

                It should work in theory

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                Tailscale or cloudflare tunnel should fix your CGNAT issue. The former is more private I believe.

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        I still sticking with Qobuz. 70% of the time I listen to music I try to discover new artists and find obscure stuff. It would be way to time consuming to download random stuff via. Soulseek in hope to find a single track I like. So the discoverability of streaming services is unbeaten. If I like an Artist, I either download the tracks on Soulseek (Which is pain in the ass in my opinion) or I buy it via. bandcamp to add the to my offline collection.

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          Man I have zero issues with Soulseek. I’ve gotten so much stuff from there. Even obscure. What struggles do you have with it?

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            Where can I find more info on Soulseek? I’d rather not web search and land somewhere and get bad info.

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              This is the main site, https://www.slsknet.org/news/faq-page I’m linking you to the FAQ. You can get the client there too.

              Concept is simple. It’s searchable p2p file sharing. You have the client, open/filter two ports on your firewall (soulseek qt has a button to check the ports are open), share a folder with media you want to share with others, then start searching for things you’d like. You can filter searches too. I keep my searches filtered to flac files for example.

              As a note, some people are weird about you downloading too much in one go, so good rule of thumb is to DL no more than 1 album at a time from someone. Some people are stupid weird about it though and will block access if you queue more than a single file. Just put them on your block list too and unshare from them and move on. It’s not worth it to message people like that.

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            If I am searching for something I mostly will find it, but only 1/4 of my downloads complete. Most of the time the downloads stuck at the status “queued” and won’t download. I have to find at least 4 different sources to get the Track I want. I’m using Nicotine+.

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              Are you sharing too? Most people on there autoblock transfers if the DLer isn’t sharing.

              I haven’t used Nicotine+ so I can’t be sure there isn’t something with that. I just use the soulseekQt client.

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                Yes. Always. About 60Gb. Maybe it’s the Client but I don’t think this will solve the problem but I will try soulseekQt.

                Edit: Wow. I think this was the solution! With the OG Soulseek Client every request is downloading within seconds! The Client looks a little bit out of date, but if it works, I don’t mind. Surprisingly I get some bot messages every few request to prove I’m human. I never got these kind of messages with Nicotine+. Thank you very much!

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    Oh is this another one of those shitty things we have been leading the world with in the UK?

    I think we’ve had as many as 4 subscriptions to legally watch all the broadcasted* matches of a top flight football team some years

    *You still miss half the matches played because of the Saturday 3pm blackout, which prohibits those matches being broadcast

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      11 days ago

      You need two different subscriptions to stream Premier League matches in America. I thought that was bad enough. But the UK situation sounds significantly worse.

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      They are just begging for you to find a good pirate service and stop giving them money… you should definitely honour their wishes

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      Just looked it up for Germany: Sky and DAZN for Bundesliga, Amazon Prime and Paramount+ (what?) for Champions League and apparently the CL final game is rumored to be aired on Netflix exclusively.

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      I think we’ve had as many as 4 subscriptions to legally watch all the broadcasted* matches of a top flight football team some years

      One of my pirate feeds for the World Cup had an annoying “Scan this QR Code to pay for your TV license” graphic in the corner. How do you people live like that?

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    My dad has been complaining about this kind of thing for baseball. The subscription to watch games online specifically blacks out home games because…l fuck you I guess? He’s paying for the service but he still needs to either use a VPN or pirate just to watch some of the games.

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      But isn’t that because of different leagues and cup tournaments. In the US you they split the games from a single league across different subscriptions. At least in my country in Europe the main football league is just one subscription.

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        In Germany, to have all Bundesliga games available you’d need DAZN and Sky. I also looked up Premier League in UK and apparently you’d need Sky and TNT there. Those are the respective top national leagues. Champions League is also split up between Amazon Prime and Paramount+ and the finale might be available on Netflix exclusively.

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          oh wow that sucks. Here in the Netherlands I can get both Bundesliga and Premier League from Viaplay under one subscription. Champions League, La Liga and Seria A from Ziggo and Eredivisie from ESPN. Still not great but no splitting leagues across different providers. yet.

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    Me: Well, at least I can watch for free on CBC on Saturday nights.

    Rogers: Yoink!

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    Similar for rugby in Europe. I subscribed last year and only discovered on the first day of the league that I was only getting 50/60% of my team’s games in the domestic league, not to mention the other league.

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    Reading this thread makes me so happy I long ago lost interest in watching sports. It sounds like a complete headache to be a fan of any sport these days.

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    10 days ago

    Just need 1 subscription to an IPTV service. I’m using BunnyTV, what are other folks using?

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      Damn I just assumed plopping down $450 for Sunday Ticket got you every game, but it doesn’t include primetime games at all!?!

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        I believe Sunday Ticket only includes the Sunday games and literally nothing more. It’s pretty much bullshit.

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        They’ve continually devalued Sunday ticket as a product. I’m surprised Google isn’t more pissed about it, as they paid a fuck load for the rights to be the exclusive seller.

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    I would never give these billionaire fucks a dime. I’d rather go watch beer leagues at the local rink.

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    ESPN+ was actually good if your team is in another TV market, but not broadcasting all the national playoff games was ridiculous - cancelled it.

    I’m very close to Canada, bought try an antenna to grab the CBC broadcast.