S5E3 “The Great Recession”
What happened at Disney, I’ve been pirating since forever lol
They fired Jimmy Kimmel after he said a very mild comment about Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, all because the FCC head threatened to take away their license, despite the fact that he was simply using his first amendment right to free speech.
Thankfully Disney had the sense to rehire him, but the fact that they caved to pressure from Fascists to begin with is some unforgivable shit.
The whole Jimmy Kimmel cancellation.
Bent the knee to losing the first amendment
Doing the lord’s work
The dark lord.
I’ve been running a Plex server for a few years now. At the beginning of this year, I finally cancelled all my streaming services (including Disney+ and Hulu) and use Plex almost exclusively. It’s always sad to see a boycott going on that I can’t participate in because I’ve already quit the service.
I do still pay for Curiosity Stream, but that’s basically like Netflix exclusively for documentaries. And super cheap compared to other streaming services. (Most expensive service is just under $6/mo if you pay annually) Gotta support the educational services!
I saw someone link to the PBS Passport here yesterday. I need to look into that too. PBS needs donations to stay alive, especially with our current administration trying to gut it.
If you’re into small streaming services, also look at Dropout for your comedy needs.
I pay for Nebula.tv for a similar reason. Mostly for Legal Eagle and City Beautiful.
I recently grabbed the new RPi 5 and a 16TB external drive, slapped Jellyfin, Tailscale and qBittorrent on it. It runs flawlessly and I will never go back.
is tailscale for accessing stuff from outside? as i see it’s a vpn thing
Yeah, accessible out side without port forwarding.
Jellyfin is pretty good though I’m still not a fan of the player just because it doesn’t give you options for transcode disable without setting it for a specific user.
Although it has gotten much better at not bothering to transcode when the device supports the source codec.
But hey I mean its miles better than the vomit UI that are streaming apps these days. And you can always just use your favorite player like Kodi or VLC if you want.
Since casting JF to a Chromecast requires that it be resolvable by Google’s DNS (or at least, it used to be that way I think), here’s a fun trick to get it working: point your public DNS record to your private IP. It’s apparently not always supported by your DNS provider, but it works great for me (namecheap).
No need to expose your JF instance over the Internet this way, and no need for complicated DNS interception stuff with your router.
You may need to have SSL certs for casting, not sure.
Here’s hoping FCast gets the traction it deserves soon and more open source projects start supporting it over Chromecast’s proprietary bs
Com to c/selfhosted, we’ll help
How does Jellyfin compare to Stremio? The wife likes Stremio because it works exactly like any other streaming app: get recommended stuff based on your viewing habits, pick something to watch, stream instantly. HDR and Dolby Atmos just works out of the box too. Couldn’t be simpler.
Is Jellyfin similar, or does it work more like Plex/Kodi, where you have to acquire the content, stick it on a server, and build up a movie/TV collection manually?
yes, but with Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Etc, you can automate it. You just add tv/movies/music you want to download, and it will periodically check torrents/usenet for releases that match your criteria. It’s pretty cool.
But why go through all that effort when I could just continue using Stremio instead? There is nothing to automate in Stremio. You just pick what you want to watch and watch it.
Maybe people aren’t explaining it in a way that clicks with me, but I just don’t understand the benefit of Jellyfin. It seems like a lot of unnecessary hassle for no reason.
Often, torrents aren’t seeded. At least for me. With the Arr stack, you can download from usenet. But I agree, that’s why I don’t run my NAS or jellyfin anymore and stick with stremio. I have come across a few titles that aren’t seeded, but i just go without in that case.
Forcing people to follow a boycott is pointless tho… Just talk to them about it.
Nobody forced you to do anything. You got told about a boycott and just started acting like a dishonest assclown. We had nothing to do with it.
