Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.

Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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    Netflix, and when they said I’d have to pay for password sharing for my stepkids, because they use my account when they’re at their dad’s.

    That was the last straw. I cracked the shits, bought a couple of ex-enterprise servers, and setup … something different. I then cancelled all streaming services (I got wind of the second Disney hike coming).

    The cool thing is they now email me with cheap rejoin offers, telling me about all the cool shows I need to be aware of. ;)

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        I admit, last time I tried something different years ago, it wasn’t that good, but thought I’d give it another go. I’d bought a lifetime pass way back, so had nothing to lose by trying.

        The kids are coping fine - the apps for something different are all pretty rock-solid now - macOS, iOS, Android, Chromecast GTV. Plus I’m on a decent fibre internet connection, so even full high quality things work just fine when they’re not at home. Honestly, there’s not a lot of difference, except my catalogue of things is better than any single service.

        Plus I take requests. :D Actually, I allow automated processing of requests, within certain limits.

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        I self host my stuff with Plex and it’s really not any less convenient than Netflix or whatever else.

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          Yep, my son put together a machine to use as a PLEX server & I log in and watch things from across town. It works perfectly fine.

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        I started again since a year or so. And decided to set up a home server (from an old pc) with the whole *arr suite this summer. Automation these days really is marvelous. You just tell it once which show you want to watch. It fetches you all the shows that are already out and also fetches you each new episode every week. And it’s all in good quality. And you can set automatic subtitles straight from the app’s interface.

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        It doesn’t compress video more on mobile devices, that’s all I need to know. When I connect an iPad or iPhone to the home cinema setup, the compression is much worse then on an old laptop.

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        Mine are handling oit perfectly fine - and we have the added difficulty of having German as mother tongue, and wanting to keep the English language content in the kids library low. Finding german language torrents is rather tricky.

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          I’m a native English speaker so take this with a grain of salt.

          Usernet? If memory holds there are a few German language indexers.

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      If you have kids, the PBS Kids video app is pretty alright. And free (in the US of course)