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Life can be simple and calm if we don’t create our own problems, like giving money and power to big publishers, who come back later to bite us. Long live piracy!
RIP my storage array
Convert to HEVC
I went all to AV1 last year. Enough stuff supports it, and realtime transcoding on a (relatively cheap) Arc GPU works well enough.
AV1 is superior enough for both size and visual fidelity, that it’s worth the slightly extra encoding time. But absolutely not if you don’t have HW encoding.
I would like to do this but I’m not confident I wouldn’t turn the quality to shit when doing the reencode.
Aye, there’s the rub. Only heavy effects stuff needs the big files now, but later there may be regrets (or instant enhancement, who’s to know)
No doubt. 🥲 Fortunately, I have a limited repertoire of movies and series that I simply watch over and over again without ever getting tired of them. 🤣 Still circa 16TB though.
On
trashAmerican upload speeds?
TW: extremely intimate description of the speeds at which my uploads and downloads collectively run
I know it’s no excuse, but I’m in the EU. 🫡
2026?
Some folks have a bit more practice and never let their skills go cold
Oh nice, didn’t know there is a conclusion to One Piece.
I think I still have movies that I had ripped off of rented dvds on an old hard drive around here somewhere, from over twenty years ago when I still had dial up internet. (It was quicker to just rent and rip than download a movie at 3-4kps.)
I still do this with Blu-ray’s I borrow from the library. It’s pretty great 😊
Honestly, I’m fine with modded YouTube Music and modded Spotify on IOS. For PC Spicetify Spotify and uBlock Origin for YouTube Music site.
I started torrenting from the age of 12. At some point , I paid for Netflix subscriptions??? Talk about blunder years, insane shit. What was I thinking lmao
Jellyfin and Radarr really do be like that.
The very least paid services could do is support unified apps that let us show and search what we’re have access to from the TV, rather than having to do it from justwatch.com or something, but no, they all want to be the centre of the universe, while having the bare minimum of content at the maximum price the market can bear.
🏴☠️
i got obsessed with the smart playlists and home screen sections on jellyfin and now i just spend all day making quirky collections and channels on ersatztv cries
I think the next tier would be to only pirate media that is licensed by huge corporations and still buy indie media to support creators
Next tier after that: pretty much where I am at. No need to pirate corporate media, I just don’t consume it anymore.
Yes to local and indie projects though. Just for sake of saying it, I really don’t like the term creator.
Folks forget Scrooge is a pirate.
He definitely loots heritage sites.
He even made 2 shows to show his raiding adventures with his nephews, that he pays with child bribes.
This is the way.
Indeed
Only annoying thing is having to hook up my laptop to the tv.
Do new TVs have USB ports? do they support mkv files?
They have HDMI ports if you want to directly connect them to a PC and just use it as a screen. Or an ethernet port you can use to play stuff over the network (usually by running a media server and having a client app on the TV).
Mine does and it can play video just fine. But hooking up your TV to your server via jailbreaking your TV might also be an option if it’s an LG
