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Fuck Subscriptions

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Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.

Expect use of strong language.

Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.

No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.

Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.

New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.

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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:

Right to Repair/Ownership

Hedges Development

Privacy

Privacy Guides

DeGoogle Yourself

F-Droid

Stallman Was Right

Some other useful links:

FreeMediaHeckYeah

Louis Rossman's YouTube channel

Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:

Piped

Invidious

Nitter

Teddit

 

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember to seed your torrents and tell the mouse to fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

my bum is on your lips

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Tell it a bedtime story from 1991 how a tiny little kernel changed the world forever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seed it as well

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Time to download some more Linux ISOs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a vintage joke that implies all the seeding of pirated torrent's a person is doing are just Linux iso's, i.e. something that is legal to share via p2p means.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Indeed. Like my 100TB collection of Linux ISO's.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

You never know when a distro hop is in order!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What’s your favorite Linux iso?

Is it the dragon ball z complete distro?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm quite pleased with the Complete Blu-ray remaster of Star Trek: The Next Generation.iso

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That’s great! I’m currently using the voyager distro, but in a bout 2 season (fall, winter) I’m going to switch to the tng distro for about 7 seasons.

Is it weird that I track time by seasons and not months or years?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

It's funny, when they announced their third price increase in as many months, it was the final motivation i needed to set up a NAS and Jellyfin. And because i have terabytes of storage, I downloaded the entire catalogue… of Linux distros. And I continue to seed them

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

This was our last streaming service we were hanging on to now we will move forward without watching any TV and I'm OK with that. These last few years are really forcing us to be a little healthier. Can't afford junk food, fast food, and now TV. It sucks but I refuse to he dragged down by the constant barrage of bad news.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a dead simple tutorial/webpage to setup jellyfin? I always assume it needs a dedicated NAS and I'm not going to do that. I have spare laptops.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can someone show me a simple way to share an external drive to Jellyfin in Ubuntu? It’s the last part I’m missing from my setup

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you mean by external drive in this case? USB? NAS? What have you tried already?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

USB formatted to FAT32

The file path will not work in Jellyfin.

I’ve tried using the terminal to set a mount point that Jellyfin can use. Apparently the problem is that Jellyfin runs as its own user and so can’t see USB drives that my account connects.

…or something…? I’ve been trying off-and-on for months. I’m only a dabbler in Linux; getting this set up with an old laptop is my attempt to learn.

I’m so confused please help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You need to:

  • create the mountpoint
  • mount the drive to the mountpoint
  • Give Jellyfin permissions to access the files there

Since you are using FAT32 which does not support file level permissions I guess this will show up as 'owned by root'. You will need to do something like this or this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you! I’m at work now but will look in to this later :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the jellyfin link

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Disney and the rest of the streaming services can fuck off and welcome back piracy with their shenanigans.

Shame they're such greedy dumbasses that continue to kill the golden goose.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My Plex server does not care if I share it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mine screams in pain, but that's just because it's chronically underpowered for multiple streams.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Netflix survived, now everyone else will follow

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Come hoist the grog with us

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

☠️ sail the 7 seas. I'm not giving anything to Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you know that Disney and Amazon are different companies?

They aren't even like owned by the same parents company. They are both the parent company of their particular set of companies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Woops... I meant Disney. And Amazon, for all that matters lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yarr harr matey it happens to us all!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We share all our streaming services and so far nothing has happened because we don't use smart televisions but only dumb monitors connected to PC/laptop. They can't figure us out. I don't think I will ever use a tv again, first because we do not watch live tv anymore, second because smart TVs spy on us and on top try to put ads on and other shite. A mini PC in the living room looks cute, can play anything including local data and they can't tell if accounts are shared.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Mickey is cute, but don't let that trick you, he'll slit your throat for a penny.