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A bunch of little things for me, little steps down the road to hell:
That last one was probably the biggest eye-opener. There are so many paid services that are objectively worse than basic free self-hosted services. Wink was ok, but I can do so much more without it. And none of this was hard. I spent hours setting up Jellyfin, but it took less time than for me to work to pay for 6 streaming services. Sure, it doesn't have the latest whatever, but so what? At least I know where to find where Stargate: SG1 is streaming!
The big thing that always stops me from going the Jellyfin route is storage space for movie rips. Granted it's been a long time since I last tried, but one movie was something like 8gb of space. How do you deal with either the constant need for more space, or just not being able to store all of your movies?
haha, many gigabytes are filled with Stargate.
Also, the only way to stream the streamlined Mythbusters, which is a million times better than the original.
The what now?
A bunch of Mythbusters fans edited EVERY episode to cut out all the repeated bits they do after every commercial and put it in order so you watch one myth and then the other, rather than swapping back and forth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/smyths/comments/8gix4w/streamlined_mythbusters_complete_may_2018_update/
Hmm. I'm not sure I'd want some of that stuff gone, but that does sound like an interesting project. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
Thank you very much, I'll be checking this out later
How did you drop Vivant? I got it because it promised to work with Home Assistant and others and it since stopped playing nicely. I'd love for them to come get the equipment and be done with this experiment but I've heard cancelling the contract is impossible. I'm not paying them due to a layoff so you'd think they'd be happy to get their shit.