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Cake day: April 27th, 2024
  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•ruleEnglish
    3·
    8 hours ago

    Hmm, it’s a bit cheaper here (I think - it’s been a while!), but yeah.

    Electricity is expensive here, I think the server setup draws 40€/month, but that is for the entire setup of course, not just pirating-related stuff; plus ~9€/month for the two usenet backbones, and a couple bucks for trackers.

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•ruleEnglish
    5·
    11 hours ago

    That’s mostly true, although you usually (in my case at least) I am aware of all shows I have available on Jellyfin, and it’s only ones I like.

    For discovering new shows to download, things like Jellyseerr actually do give recommendations… No idea how good they are though.

    But frankly, Netflix used to recommend a lot of things that sounded interesting on the surface-level, and then turned out to be utter shit. Probably not an entirely bad thing to be lacking recommendations :D

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•ruleEnglish
    25·
    16 hours ago

    For Non-English ones in my native language. There isn’t a lot of them. AFAICT the one I mostly use is free for a handful of requests/day, but generously lifts that limit in exchange for a “donation” 😄

    (It’s only around 20/year)

    Edit: and just to be clear, that one Tracker took us from “basically nothing is available in our language” to “literally everything is”, so it’s money well spent.

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•ruleEnglish
    39·
    17 hours ago

    For a very long time, I was one of the people who kep saying:

    “I used to pirate until Netflix came along; now I pirate because of the fragmentation of services; should a good service become available at a reasonable price again, I will be happy to switch back.”

    But at some point, that stopped being true. More precisely, my *arr-Stack + Jellyfin setup become so stable, I do no longer really think about it, while also getting better quality content, and often faster than I would due to global licensing shennanigans.

    Another factor also is that at some point, we crossed the “enough content to mindlessly scroll until we find something to watch” barrier, which my GF actually kinda missed from Netflix.

    The crazy thing though, is that we pay actual money for this: hardware cost; electricity; access to usenet trackers and two usenet backbones. All in all, I do not think it’s cheaper than getting Netflix+Prime+Disney.

    It’s just better. And we will not be switching back, ever.

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemstoWorld News@lemmy.world•Europe says it is ready to back EU membership for UkraineEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I’m sorry but how is anyone this dense?

    Yeah… asking myself the same question here.

    The position of the German state on EU topics has not changed significantly through this election. The Ampel-Coalition, CDU, and SPD each have roughly the same position on Ukraine. The fact that Germany will most likely have a 2-party coalition going forward does not change ANYTHING in the European Parliament. Those elections took place in June 2024, and will not be held again until 2029.

    That’s like saying “Oh, Oregon just had elections for their state government and the makeup of dems vs reps slightly shifted; this is huge for US foreign policy!”

    Sure, it can be a mood indicator, but as stated above, the actual positions are more or less the same, and the German state being a bit more swift to act thanks to a 2-party coalition is irrelevant for the day-to-day business and direction of the EU, which is governed by supra-national institutions unaffected by Germany’s elections.