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This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 9 points 13 hours ago (14 children)

I'm so confused as to why people are still paying for streaming services.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    As far as I can tell, it is just habit, laziness and convenience. My wife literally prefers to scroll Hulu for 30 mins and settle on some 10 yr old trashy reality TV show. All in order to avoid browsing Jellyfin. Some people want to be passively fed junk TV, instead of actively seeking out quality shows they intentionally want to watch. She chooses to pay for this kind of interaction. Boggles my mind too.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    My partner fought me tooth and nail not to cancel all streaming services. What got them to change their mind was the "request board" I put a short cut to a text file on every pc that points to a file on my pc. Whenever I see it updated I go out and find whatever ridiculous request they put on there. It's always the worst trash tv one could possibly think of but thats ok I don't have to watch it.

    Now they has an endless supply of brain rot and I got to banish the blood sucking leeches that are streaming services.

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  • [–] 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Localization :(

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

    I've been trying to switch over to the arr stack, and for anything new it's great, but my girlfriend likes to watch some older obscure stuff (previous Halloween Baking Championship for example) which I'm having a hard time finding. Lots of stalled torrents, etc. Maybe I just need to get into some private trackers, but there is still some things that stream wins out for currently for us.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago*

    Torrents are, by design, popularity based bandwidth... Might I suggest newsgroups that can have retention of 25+ years? Oh and the speeds are enough to make your (insert connection type) beg for mercy.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    Switch to Usenet. Torrents are honestly terrible.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (2 children)

    I've heard of them but I admittedly shyed away from them since I'm not familiar with how they work. Are they free like torrents or do you need to pay to access them?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    Usually you have to pay for them. Free ones are available but they don’t have much available.

    Remember, Netflix got popular because it was an access issue, not a payment issue. People were fine with paying, just not overpaying.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago

    Is there one you'd recommend, or how would I go about picking one? Do they all have everything, or does it depend on what shows/movies I'm interested in?

    Sorry for all the questions, I've been curious about this stuff for a bit but I'm the only pirate in my friend group

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