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You shouldn't joke about these things, man.
I accidentally set up a home server running Plex/Jellyfin, and now I control all my media without paying £18 per month (and probably due to rise soon, like the US pricing) to a company that only has a handful of things I like and regularly takes away content, plus prevents account sharing.
You wouldn't want someone else to accidentally do that, would you?
yes, now I'm paying 10 times more.
Don't mind it though, experience is better in every way possible besides occasional maintenance need, but it's definitely not for everyone. Could be done cheaper, but it's tradeoffs all the way as with everything in life.
Yeah i bought a small computer off of eBay, installed Proxmox and all this weird software started downloading and categorizing media. It was terrifying.
Weird. Similar thing happened to me. One day I was thinking, "Damn. These streaming services are getting too expensive. I may have to get back to sailing the high seas if this keeps up." I shit you not, all of a sudden my home server is sucking up all kinds of movies and TV shows and streaming them to my living room. It's like The Brave Little Toaster if the toaster were actually a Dell PowerEdge and it went on a long journey to find the master (me) as much high quality media as possible.
Pirating is not really much cheaper TBH...my media server, including power, has to run for something like 6-7 years without upgrades or repairs to break even with what Netflix would cost in that same time frame. It's not about saving money, it's about not giving it to them.
Sure, if you only watch Netflix stuff, but not Disney, Hulu, Peacock, Max, etc etc etc.
But also, if you're willing to give up a little content and a some quality, it's cheaper than Netflix. A lot cheaper, if you insist on not having ads in Netflix.
If I still watched TV, I the risk of me doing that accidentally is very high.