Turner Classic Movies streaming app is quietly full of win. Approx 100 curated sometimes thematic movie classics that change every few weeks, View it or lose it.
If all the actors are dead you should just pirate it.
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#222I'm sure this is an unpopular opinion, but I have very little sympathy for writers. The work today is on average horrible, derivative and opposite of inspired. I'm at the point where I'm almost ready for AI to take over. It's just that rare gem that hits now and then that gives me pause, but frankly, I can't remember the last time I watched a movie that actually moved me.
It's not that unpopular - I see it a lot on FB and Twitter. People really dislike modern media. Zoomers in particular watch and listen to a ton of older stuff. With a few exceptions, movies are terribly written these days. A lot of people think the issue is "wokeness", but that's just part of it - everything is slapped together poorly. The quips, the one liners, the new archetypes, all pales to how fucking horrible d…
Too true. I love so many YouTubers under 1m subs. Keep using ad block and please support your favs on Patreon!
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#223TL;DR: Adult whose TC is probably $300k+ makes time to write a whole ass blog post indignantly complaining about a $30 price hike for an annual subscription to a children's content channel
Absolutely true. But they brought about an interesting discussion on HN, so I’ll upvote it.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can’t square your comment with the fact that my experience of the other big name streaming services has been just as good as my experience with Netflix. They basically all just work almost all the time. If Netflix has more valuable technical excellence it should show in the customer experience of the product.
HBO's app is a dumpster fire, but disney+ is quite nice.
The recent Max UI revamp was awful and completely unnecessary. It looks worse and I personally find it harder to find what I'm looking for.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
When reducing copyright terms or eliminating copyright comes up, there’s always someone posting about how horrible it’ll be if the rate of creation of new media plummets, and I just cannot relate. I’m not even going to get through every video game that’s probably worth playing, that already exists, before I die, and that’s a fairly new medium. Music? TV? Film? Books? LOL. LMFAO. If all publishing magically entirely s…
FTL already exists, so there's not really any point making new video games anyway.
FTL2 will be the exact same game, but with a fast-forward button.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the existence of torrents, it really wasn't. Ever.
Some may claim that sonarr + jellyfin give them a better experience than the commercial service. Locally cached, all services combined, low fees for VPN. Password sharing with friends. There was a time when this was to much hazel to set up compared with a Netflix subscription.
It still is quite a hazel. I find new issues popping up at least once a year that requires technical know how to resolve. The average person isn't going anywhere near that beside a simple torrent setup.
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#227TL;DR: Adult whose TC is probably $300k+ makes time to write a whole ass blog post indignantly complaining about a $30 price hike for an annual subscription to a children's content channel
What's the wealth cut-off for complaining about subscription prices? I want to know if I'm poor enough to be permitted to say "what Joe Steel said".
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#228We have Disney+ but don’t watch it super often. Our price is increasing from $85/yr to $140. I’ll probably cancel here in a few days and maybe in the future just subscribe for a month and binge some shows after they’re out. The almost doubling of the price is absurd.
140 a year? You know you can pay for a good VPN for a lot less than that...
Pia is great. Got it mainly because of the wireguard support. It's much faster than ovpn.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, streaming easily wins when you consider the entire family can stream on any screen in the house and Disney DVDs are actually pretty expensive.
You could always buy them from a thrift store for $1-2 or borrow them from the library, and rip them to a jellyfin server. My kids don't know Disney exists yet and I don't see that changing for a few more years, but if they did, they'd be watching Homeward Bound or something.
That'd be a neat legal detour. However for those who don't care, simply downloading requires less effort once you got the framework (usenet, torrent, sonarr, radarr) set up. Personally I am done with the silly streaming fracturing, except for my kids. So I will keep Disney+ at least, Prime cause it is cheap, and likely will ditch Netflix (not enough value)
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#230I don’t really care about “new” content. Similar to video games. I consume if it is new or old. If I can’t find content then I’m done with the service. Unfortunately on all these platforms discovery is horrible unless they want you to find it.
When reducing copyright terms or eliminating copyright comes up, there’s always someone posting about how horrible it’ll be if the rate of creation of new media plummets, and I just cannot relate. I’m not even going to get through every video game that’s probably worth playing, that already exists, before I die, and that’s a fairly new medium. Music? TV? Film? Books? LOL. LMFAO. If all publishing magically entirely s…
People like the new stuff because it gives them something to talk about. Other than that, I agree with you, there's virtually and infinite amout of content if you start looking at older media.