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      I know this person and, honestly, it’s a thing of majesty. These discs have presence, heft, and are valuable. They’re collectors items on some level - every last one of them. So what if we’re watching “Jaws” or “Aliens” for the 400th time. We’re having a real, visceral experience here.

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        I’m exaggerating here, I only have about 200 laserdiscs. That’s just a portion of my physical media collection. But I do really enjoy them. My toddler calls them “big movies” and we’ve watched Bambi I don’t know how many times. And hell yeah, Jaws and Aliens! I have the Criterion release of Silence of the Lambs, and that has also gotten a lot of play time.

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    Reading this thread is letting me know how behind the times I am, like 90% of the apps are greek to me.

    Used to have a huge library media server, torrenting all the day long.

    But you guys, WOOHOO hosting drop servers and auto seeking subtitle and NFOs 24/7 from a curated seek list. FUCKING BRILLIANT!

    I don’t got that kind of energy in my old age

    Nowadays I have a handful of pirate stream sites and that’s really all I need.

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      Older geek here. I started with Plex and torrent. Added sonarr. Researched and switched to jellyfin. Learned about arr stack. Moved services to docker.

      It’s now super low maintenance. If I need to update a service, I just kill and recreate it. I have a second machine for media storage.

      I think I spent a weekend building the arrstack and I have a few days total working on the home made NAS.

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      And maybe about a minute or so more - absolutely not because I wanna cause any discomfort, I just need to process the shock & loss (maybe some abatement issues) to be able to physically move away, back home to my def-not-up-to-date Jelly Fino (thats the name of my main instance).

      (Actually I really should update my Jellyfin client on Tizen … or buy a N100 player or something.)

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    fuck streaming services!

    Obviously that means that I just don’t watch movies and just sit in silence doing nothing, because piracy is wrong and immoral!

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      Things are so tight that 1 streaming service would be an irresponsible expense for me. $15/month for an expense that can be circumvented if you’re smart, its a no brainer. I feel like society has done more harm to me than any amount of piracy will ever do to them. Where are all these high paying jobs I was promised I could have if I got a degree, huh? I’m worse off now than before I made the decision to go to school. It’s pirated or nothing for me but it’s also more convenient. That enshittified corporate ui shit is slow.

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        Things are so tight that 1 streaming service would be an irresponsible expense for me. $15/month for an expense that can be circumvented if you’re smart, its a no brainer

        Well obviously that means that you just have to stay in silence and watch nothing all the time.

        Piracy is wrong and immoral and you should never deprive a billion dollar corporation that’s keeping over 99% of the money the actors and production crew are making

        There are people who understand what I’m saying…then there’s the guy or lady I’m replying to right now.

        By that I mean…PIRACY IS IMMORAL!