I can still pick and choose my streaming. If I don't want Netflix I can cancel it, I don't have to keep it just so I can also watch Hulu.
Yes, if you get everything, it's about the same or more than cable.
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Streaming has gone up in price, and ads are sure to come as many streaming services are already complaining about financial strain, but for now it's still ad free and cheaper than cable in my country, by a long shot. Even if I pay for 3 streaming services.
I honestly hope that some of them go under, and have to revert to renting IP to Netflix again.
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Torrents, Bicycles and Self Hosting. Stop complaining about the soup at the soup kitchen and make yourself some dinner.
I'd love a distro for raspi etc that made onroading to pirating really easy. like LibreElec for Raspberry Pi is great, but you have to manually verify the debrid and trakt in settings, i need something boomer-friendly. Like, first run, it gives a debrid verification url prompt, waits for it, then trakt, waits for it, then asks like "which of these popular shows do you like" and offers suggestions to start
Nah that's okay, I much prefer it with the barriers to entry. Making it bang simple for all the normies is how this shit gets locked down and much more difficult for the rest of us.
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I never expected ride hailing apps to save money. Where from? Taxis were never a high margin business with some superfluous middleman.
Could there be some decentralized ride hailing platform?
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Was Uber ever cheaper than a cab? I knew about them fairly early on, and even then the prices were way more than a taxi. The only benefit it really offered was that you may not even have access to a taxi service where you are, but Uber drivers could be your next door neighbor.
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Good thing I've been getting my media from the high seas for years, never used an uber, and I don't give a shit about the cloud.
