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I’m okay with paying for Internet services if the price is right… I’m not okay with also getting milked (data mined) for profit in addition to paying.
I’m so glad that after signing up, Lemmy quickly showcased to me posts about opensource/ public alternatives for the apps/websites we normally use. It brings me such a reignited passion. In time I’m gonna change my email, cloud services, OS… Everything!
Nice. I felt the same way a few years ago and changed everything over 2 years. Best decision ever (besides having a child, that was a great decision as well.)
That’s so motivating to hear because doesn’t matter how long it takes as long as it gets done :') awesome!
Not being able to use every server emoji on Discord is actually a good safeguard for NSFW spamming, because when trolls have to pay to be obnoxious, they usually stop doing it.
I agree on the premise as a whole, though. Our entire lives are getting enshittified with subscription models, designed to prey on those who forget to cancel or otherwise don’t have the means or knowledge to get rid of it
If you can’t pirate it, it’s not worth the money to rent it
I only disagree when it comes to paying creators for their content. I pay for a single streaming service, and that’s just because it directly supports the people running the service and making the content.
I’m more than happy to pay creators more or less directly for content, but I’m definitely not supporting shit services like Hulu and Netflix.
I pay for a single streaming service, and that’s just because it directly supports the people running the service and making the content.
Nebula?
Slippi was right, I pay for dropout.tv. It’s an amazing platform that basically rose from the ashes of college humor. If you like their style of humor, they have a bunch of new shows and tons of D&D-like content. Easiest $5/mo I spend.
I’m so excited for season 2 of Misfits and Magic coming out tonight
Me and my partners are still working through NSBU, but I can’t recall if we’ve seen season 1. So much content and so little time!
Enjoy watching as it comes out!
Season 1 is only 5 episodes of actual play, so it’s a fairly quick watch.
Never Stop Blowing Up was a great season, you’re in for a great time. I highly recommend watching the Adventuring Party, generally, and especially for NSBU.
We have been, and it’s sooopoo good. Also nice to see some BTS stuff and characters progressing. My partners don’t always like watching the adventuring party, but I enjoy them.
I think that’s fair, I do think AP got way better once they started recording after the episode they were for compared to when they used to record them after the season was over.
Dropout.tv would be my guess
You would be correct
Dropout for me
We need more texts like these. Different people respond to different kinds of content/appeals. I personally very much agree with this but I think some people would reject the entire idea because they might draw their line at piracy; which can be shifted, and I think that’s why we need way more of these messages
Fuckin’ A on this one. Think about how much companies make with entirely artificial scarcity. You can only add 1 license to this, you can only watch on one TV unless you pay us $15 a month. It costs $200 to change where you are in the database table for this flight. Complete bullshit and we need to see it for what it is and stop it. I love how she says all that will be left in their wake is dull capitalists. Exactly. Stop playing their games. Play your game.
Also work on not being such a dopamine hound. I don’t need to see new-show this year. Or this decade. I’ll see it eventually. Or never. Who cares.
Know what’s as good as music? The wind in the trees.
Not saying I’m some ascetic who doesn’t enjoy media, but when I hit a paywall or an adwall I just try to say “ok, see ya later” and move on letting that content desire slip from my mind.
This is great advice. There’s so much content to enjoy from the past 20+ years that I don’t feel the desire to immediately buy the new thing. You can usually get it for far cheaper down the line.
There are communities such as PatientGamers for videogames that preach exactly this.
Downvotes from stimulation hounds lol.
What if someone other than me knows what baby Yoda is up to?
To repeat, I’m not saying I perfectly succeed at this.
Usually, but not always. Some 5-10 year old games are still north of $50. The price for some movies and TV series has gone up rather than down over the years.
Luckily, as you said there’s so much out there that as long as I don’t get too picky there’s more than enough available without paying gouged prices.
I recently setup magnetico and tuned its crawling to not be super disruptive to my network (ISP’s shitty router doesn’t have enough RAM to maintain a stateful firewall for NAT for all the sockets magnetico likes to open).
And slowly, I’ve been accumulating torrent hashes. In a couple of months, I’m up to 118k+. I’ve considered trying to merge in other people’s magnetico databases. The point is to maintain my own search for torrents to avoid the the whack-a-mole that stupid governments play with torrent search sites.
A buddy of mine swears by usenet and uses a pretty cheap option for access.
All of that said about piracy: Support creators in your life. Cut off parasites.
For every person with the discipline to ignore subscription based services there are hundreds who go “but I don’t get ads if I do”
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.
- the best advice an AI ever gave (too bad it was a fictional AI)
That’s because all the good shit* comes from humans.
*but also so much bad shit. So so so much bad as well.
Except when it comes to voting. Vote, please.
“If you can’t pirate it.”
That’s a skill issue.
git gud
Tiktok being able to display videos on desktop but not images is simultaneously hilarious and sad. It’s baffling. Like why? How?
I say this as a creator; it is not stealing to take something that can be replicated infinitely without cost.
It can be reproduced indefinitely without cost to the creator. It’s the first production that’s a bitch.
How is initial production funded if nobody is willing to pay for it?
Artists will create art regardless of whether they are paid for it.
In any case, sale of physical media and merchandising will earn plenty to fund production.
Up front through things like kickstarter? instead of convincing a publisher to sign you on you have to convince a crowd
If it were fairly funded it would be easier to find the money. Because right now tickets and subscriptions are most expensive ever yet just a few months ago US writers had to go on a long strike. If execs and “stars” stopped taking astronomical amounts of money then the production costs would probably go down.
I wonder if there is a word for that
Wish I could get my dad to get this. I tell him I use an adblocker, he says why? He’s never been bothered by it. His generation grew up in a technologically inconvenient time that he now glorifies today’s streaming services, not seeing how they are enshittified. It’s sad and I wish I could get him to understand.
In fairness, this streaming world is a marvel - if you can afford it. You can, for £100 a month, have access to damn near any piece of media that’s been published over the past 100 years. If you watch ten movies in a month you’ve spent the equivalent of buying ten DVDs ten years ago. Everything beyond that is pure profit.
But if you don’t have a spare £100 a month, you can get fucked. You can spend your time feeling like you’re missing out because you can’t afford Disney+ this month, and you’re trying desperately to avoid spoilers of the tentpole show they’ve just dropped.
Our parents (generally) can afford it, and can compare it to how it used to be. Hell, I’m 44 and I still see it as an incredible feat. But it’s one I’m tired of. So I pirate the few things that have piqued my interest, and browse my friend’s well stocked Plex library for other distractions. My sole subscription is Apple Music. I could pirate music and only ever use my iPod, but there are times when I prefer the convenience of my phone.
As for the ads: I’m British, so can only speak for times I visited the US as a kid; but TV advertising has long been WAY out of control over there. Ads, opening credits, ads, part one, ads, part two, ads, closing credits, ads. It’s fucking insane. Here in the UK, if you’re not watching BBC, it’s ads, part one, ads, part two, ads. Done. So from our perspective, advertising on the internet is mad. But to older Gen X/Boomer Americans, it’s just a way of life.
My kids get upset when I tell them that any particular piece of media (I’m SO TIRED of certain Disney movies) isn’t available. They have quite literally tens of thousands of choices that I never had growing up with broadcast TV only.
Unfortunately the buy in to start pirating is more expensive these days. You need a decent computer, decent internet, gotta pay for a vpn because the free ones don’t really work. It’s almost not worth the trouble.
A raspberry pi is enough, no need for a VPN and even if you want one, it can be as cheap as 3€ a month.
Share your knowledge on how to use a Pi never heard of that method.
if you want to go the SBC route there’s other options aside from Pis you might want to check out. Cheaper and more suitable systems that are easier to get ahold of. If you’re looking to get into it I’d look at LibreElec and Kodi with a Seren plugin setup that pulls from a Debrid service like RealDebrid. debrid removes the need for a vpn and is usually cheaper and faster.
pirating video is as easy as visiting one of the dozens of streaming sites with a device capable of running a browser that can play video and run an adblocker.
If you weren’t aware your isp tracks your download usage and can tell when you’re pirating. They aren’t stupid.
they can tell im watching video, but the connection is over https, they can’t tell im watching episode one of star trek or whatever. unless they’re doing a mtm on all their customers to intercept SSL certs for the express purpose of traffic snooping.
ive been doing this for years on an ISP that has previously sent us a nasty note about piracy when someone did a torrent, so I think i’m probably ok man.
Streaming video from a site is not downloading, your ISP can’t do shit about it, that’s how everyone I know from the US pirates shows and movies
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Just don’t use a VPN company that pays people to spread misinformation on YouTube.
