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Streaming services of any kind. I've got a jellyfin server now that has everything I need.
It was fine when they were $5 a month, but this $20 a month bullshit is insane. And what do you mean I can't share one account with the family if we're not on the same network, get real.
My family will rotate Steaming services. We sub for a month or two when we wanna see a show or something, then cancel in favor of something else.
yeah, this is the way. i got lectured yesterday buy some weirdo about how doing that is 'too inconvenient and a massive waste of time'. and then doubled down when I pointed out it takes seconds to do this, and were like 'it shouldn't have to take me seconds'. OK buddy... like i guess if you feel you must be subbed to 8 different services at once and forever because you can't ever cancel or swap, it must be really tough to be you.
dam thats like 100+$ of streams, its an addiction. good thing im satisfied by all the stuff being uploaded to YT in clips, basically tells you the whole story/seasons anyways.
yup, which is why the money boys are desperate to make bundles. annual contracts with cancellation fees are in the future. line must go up!
Do you have any information that could help me understand how to self-host my own music streaming using jellyfin? I’ve been meaning to learn this as I’m over Apple’s last increase.
You bet! If you only need to get it working on your home network then it's really easy. The Jellyfin website has great documentation on the process and there are also great YouTube videos as well. It's pretty much download the program and tell it where to look for the files, then visit the localhost link it gives you and bam you're golden.
If you also want to be able to access it from outside of your home network then things get can get a bit tricky and you will need to set up a reverse proxy of some kind (Caddy, Nginx, Pangolin, etc).
Or tailscale to ease things, really easy to setup, only caveat is that devices that will access the server must also be on the tailscale "network"
If you only want to stream music you might be better off setting up Navidrome. !selfhosted@lemmy.world is a good place to look for advice on this stuff.
I don't have that problem. I share netflix/HBO with my sister who is across the country with little to no issue.
but we never sub up more than two services at once.
I'm in the US and have to watch a few seconds of something on my phone while connected to the wifi in each location for two houses less than 3 miles apart every single month or it gets signed out of every device at one of the two locations. I only do that ao my daughter can watch shows at two places.
I will most likely cancel this fall after catching up on my backlog. It isn't the cost that will be the dealbreaker, it is the hassle.
yeah and i have to mfa for my work vpn once a month... that's pretty standard stuff dude.
you seriously think once a month auth is awful burden you can't live with?
Yeah, that's super asinine. Do you remember when the internet worked without seventeen thousand layers of bullshit?
It is an annoyance for a thing that up to a couple years ago required zero effort and at that time the company promoted sharing accounts. Now they are so against sharing that they penalize people who use more than one wifi network.
I'm not even sharing accounts, just watching it in two places. If I could just mfa once at either location to confirm it wouldn't be so bad. I have to remember to take action in two places and track it so it doesn't get cut off in the evening at the other place while I'm going to bed and my kiddo is trying to watch a movie.
Also I'm paying for Netflix. Your job is paying you to do that.
yeah the world changes. nothing stays the same. what seemed like a good idea 5-10 years ago seems utterly stupid today. that's how life works, including business.
I mean, I get it, 1st world problem of mind inconvenience is a moral outrage. But I don't own two homes, I can't possible imagine how difficult and awful it must be to have to manage my netflix account across multiple properties...
oh wait, you could just create a vpn and network your two homes so they appear on the same network! wow... almost as if there is a solution to every problem.
I don't own two homes, what the fuck are you talking about?
My daughter moves back and forth between two homes, like a lot of kids do. You do understand that family situations can be complicated right?
Netflix's "solution" is to have a second account, but then if she watches something at my place and then at her mom's it would require signing in and out of Netflix constantly to have access to her personal profile. Netflix tying accounts to wifi networks is stupid and frankly you would fit right in there.
I don't work for netflix but I do understand a lot about tech and I do very well in my career, yeah.
Because I don't tolerate entitled requests from users who think their convenience is all that matters. They have to sign into the account everytime they they move locations because it's a necessary security precaustion and contractually obligated by our insurance.
but right, I'm a dummy and you know better. you know you can just setup your daughters phone with a netflix account and have her stream from the phone to any tv without having to re-auth right?
but hey sorry for trying to help you out, when clearly you didn't want a solution, you just wanted to be embittered at netflix because how dare you be inconvenienced.
You could just... no longer subscribe to them. but that would be even more inconvenient.
You are insufferable.
yeah i know.
I don't agree with the lemmy hive mind about how awful and terrible everything is because 1st world people are mildly inconvenienced and have to pay a few extra bucks for something that was artificially cheap 10 years ago.
you act like having 2 homes is a normal thing.
Lol meanwhile I have to punch in a code if I want to watch Netflix at work because I'm not on my home network. Somehow Netflix invented landline streaming services.