I was never a fan of the subscriptions model (I have never had a Spotify, Netflix, or any other similar services).
My girlfriend that used to make fun of me is now considering cutting some of those costs.
What is your stance on this?
I’ve given up on most subscriptions and replaced them with torrenting + Jellyfin.
Hey, watch out what you say, lemmy.world might block you 👀 /s
I did something similar to you but with Plex, nowadays I’m enjoying my Real Debrid account + Stremio and Kodi, still have my personal collection on Plex.
I’m curious how Disney calculates since they keep claiming they’re losing a lot of money on Disney+ even though they barely make any exclusive content for it. The bulk of the content was made for theaters and tv anyway and was simply put in a library to be streamed. That’s like printing money.
My one video subscription is to a VPN, Mullvad. I can find most anything in qbittorrent’s built-in file search, and the really weird stuff on rutracker. Jellyfin is like a self-hosted Netflix, it’s way easier to use than Kodi. I splurged on a Synology NAS so I’ve got 800 movies and 50,000 songs. I rip FLAC music from deezer and qobuz trials using deemix and qobuzdl. I import playlists to rip into Qobuz and Deezer using soundiiz, the one audio subscription I paid for. This way I can get flacs for radio playlists, any text playlist, although XSPF format works best.
VPN, Mullvad.
Those are good people. I am always really impressed by the way the do their business. Allowing people to pay a VPN by cash really is a feat.
