Redundant for this group, but people with the will and know how might want to start backing up their stuff if they haven’t already, just from a preservation standpoint. I went to watch MIB randomly when I saw it on Hulu and something was off from the opening credits so I put my version on instead and it just felt better. Not sure exactly what it was, but in the new world of AI everything and music rights concerns, you never know. There’s also been censorship of available episodes for shows, with the Community DnD episode with Chang as a dark elf coming to mind.
Copy everything, let God sort it out. Sharing = caring.
Regards, Uncle Dolan.
Remember to seed
I’ve got the need, the need to seed.
Jellyfin and Radarr really do be like that.
The very least paid services could do is support unified apps that let us show and search what we’re have access to from the TV, rather than having to do it from justwatch.com or something, but no, they all want to be the centre of the universe, while having the bare minimum of content at the maximum price the market can bear.
Folks forget Scrooge is a pirate.
He definitely loots heritage sites.
He even made 2 shows to show his raiding adventures with his nephews, that he pays with child bribes.
This is they way.
Indeed
Only annoying thing is having to hook up my laptop to the tv.
Do new TVs have USB ports? do they support mkv files?
You can get a cheap Android TV Player for about $50 that will connect to your TV via HDMI, connect to your network via Wi-Fi or even Ethernet (I suggest you the latter if you can - much better performance, no hiccups if the Wi-Fi channel you’re using is also used by a lot of other stuff) and play any MKV videos it can access on your network (so, for example, you could share them in a Windows share).
This is kinda the setup I had maybe a decade and a half ago (only back then they were called TV Media Players and it was before Android).
You can get a TV Stick which is sorta the same but smaller, hangs from the HDMI port on your TV and those never have Ethernet.
You can get any of the hardware supported by LibreELEC - the cheapest being ARM-based Single Board Computers like Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi - and install LibreELEC in it and use that. Basically works like the Android TV Player only less bloated and you control that device fully.
Personally I now have an N100 Mini-PC on my living room with Lubutu (I installed Lubunto because I thought that it would be too little PC for a more normal distro, but frankly that thing can run a normal distro just fine) with Kodi always ON and on front (so from the TV side it just looks like a Media browsing and playing interface). The reason for having a bit more generic hardware there is that the machine is ALSO my Torrent server (with QBittorrent, which you can remotey add torrents to from your personal PC using a browser plugin and remotely manage from a browser) AND it’s also my home NAS (so, same place were the media files end up stored).
It’s connected directly to my router via Ethernet so it downloads and uploads at 1Gbps. I generally manage it remotely via SSH from my own PC and have a wireless remote for it (which works just like a normal remote, except that you can’t use it to switch the machine ON, only OFF, plus do other buttons just do the normal play, stop and all the other standard functions in Kodi) so for using it as a media player in my living room it works like a dedicated TV Media Player or a Smart TV and doesn’t at all look like there’s a PC in my living room connected to my TV, but I have full control over what’s running there and it isn’t selling my personal data to anybody or shoving adverts in front of me.
I have a smart tv I keep offline and a usb stick with films and series I watch
Mine does and it can play video just fine. But hooking up your TV to your server via jailbreaking your TV might also be an option if it’s an LG
They have HDMI ports if you want to directly connect them to a PC and just use it as a screen. Or an ethernet port you can use to play stuff over the network (usually by running a media server and having a client app on the TV).
Honestly, I’m fine with modded YouTube Music and modded Spotify on IOS. For PC Spicetify Spotify and uBlock Origin for YouTube Music site.
I started torrenting from the age of 12. At some point , I paid for Netflix subscriptions??? Talk about blunder years, insane shit. What was I thinking lmao
i got obsessed with the smart playlists and home screen sections on jellyfin and now i just spend all day making quirky collections and channels on ersatztv cries
Well
Life can be simple and calm if we don’t create our own problems, like giving money and power to big publishers, who come back later to bite us. Long live piracy!
no money, no problem!
🏴☠️
2026?
Some folks have a bit more practice and never let their skills go cold
Assuming this meant pirated tapes (unsure if that msg was for digital or not) but even digital has been going on longer than streaming services were available. Its like people forgot about napster and kazaa. Though to be fair they may not have been around for them but it’s not like older people had no options when the Internet was newer.
I got into the digital stuff around 2002ish with eDonkey. There was a big MST3k trading community at the time, and I had access to an OC-48 line back then. All the 90 minute episodes were sized to CD, so I had a whole spindle of episodes.
I think the next tier would be to only pirate media that is licensed by huge corporations and still buy indie media to support creators
Next tier after that: pretty much where I am at. No need to pirate corporate media, I just don’t consume it anymore.
Yes to local and indie projects though.
Just for sake of saying it, I really don’t like the term creator.
I usually avoid corporate stuff, but not always. What term do you prefer over “creator”?
Whatever they are. Historians, comedians, filmmakers, etc.
Content is the dumbest word, and again that word means they are making slop to consume so YouTube can shovel you ads.
I generally agree, but those terms you prefer are specific about the type of media. I think “creator” is the most neutral and general term, but it has been somewhat tarnished by commercialized platforms like YouTube.
I am lifting this quote from another Lemmy user: “CEO that calls music ~“content without production costs”
They are referring to the Spotify CEO, and the discussion is about AI making music.
The relevance here is exactly what I am trying to say: the term “content” is used by the corporations (youtube, Sportify, TikTok) as a catch all term for just about anything to get clicks and revenue. People shouldn’t be reduced to this. We have authors. The books have “content” hence the name Table of Contents. But we dont call an Author a content creator.
Youtube didn’t give a shit what was on the screen as long as it was “content”. Sell more ads.
Its a derogatory term I guess is what I am saying.
I get your point, but what would be an alternative term for content or creators in general? One that encompasses all types of media. Maybe “artists” and “art”, but that doesn’t always fit, I guess
There is no need to encompass all of it. That’s the point.
Doesnt the words just stand out as wrong? Creators. Well that means nothing. We all create things.
I think I still have movies that I had ripped off of rented dvds on an old hard drive around here somewhere, from over twenty years ago when I still had dial up internet. (It was quicker to just rent and rip than download a movie at 3-4kps.)
But also, they look real shit compared to what we’re used now.
Vintage
I still do this with Blu-ray’s I borrow from the library. It’s pretty great 😊
