• Why is Lemmy so Racist?@lemmy.world
    81·
    19 days ago

    Worse than that, since they killed the sharing off now a Netflix account isn’t your account, it’s an account you buy for one “household” location using one internet connection.

    If you try to sign in to netflix on hotel tvs it won’t let you, because that isn’t part of your “household.” If you have multiple internet connections in your house you can have that same issue inside your own home, because Netflix will decide the internet connection you use most is your “household” connection and the other one doesn’t count as being in your “household” even if it’s in the next room.

    If you travel a lot or have an atypical internet setup in your own house Netflix will deny you access and tell you to buy a subscription for that location.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 days ago

      Also bookmark Stremio. It can stream torrents if you use the Torrentio addon. And if you pay for a debrid service like alldebrid or realdebrid it can easily stream 4K Blu-ray remux files.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
    2·
    18 days ago

    I’m a Luddite

    I’m still absolutely unaware of what the “fediverse” is, or how lemmy works

    I took two months to figure out how to Chromecast to a TV when something changed and I couldn’t follow basic instructions from Google

    And yet, even I am able to easily find sites to watch the shit I want to that requires paying shitty 'Murican companies (mostly I enjoy SBS and ABC stuff, because I live in Australia and they have wonderful offerings for all who live here for free)

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
    2·
    19 days ago

    My proton account costs less than $80/yr.

    That’s less than $7/mo.

    Considering a person can easily pay $45/mo for multiple services, I’m already ahead.

    You know, once I break even on all of the storage and network equipment I bought for the home lab. Two years . Three, tops. I shouldn’t need to buy any more storage for a long long…

    How have I already used 16TB?

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

    I might be a unique form of grump: I recognize we get gypped by modern streaming services, but I still appreciate that the internet gave us greater breadth of choice than old cable options.

    There’s indie and foreign streaming services that cost a lot less than the Netflix oligopoly, yet people never even seem to look for those, and just turn to piracy as their form of protest. “I can’t live without this show, and so I’ll give these services my vote of confidence, as well as political ammunition to enact higher levels of internet traffic spying!” What a genius self-serving plan.

  • Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    18 days ago

    They planned it this way. Netflix admitted it at the demo to ad sales execs. They deliberately priced streaming low and ran off investor funds because they new they’d get valuable information for ads since streaming is much more monitoring than broadcast.