The Ratatouille Ego monologue is another one that people always get wrong too
My theory is they're from ESL people or something.
Nah, I think it's just people not knowing/remembering the context in the original media and then interpreting it the way that seems most obvious to them when making a meme.
Honestly, I think a lot of people who use the meme haven't seen that Spiderman and have no idea it's from there. The movie is 24 years and two reboots old after all
IIRC, it was used correctly at first, and then some comment about it only making sense with context from the movie, so it should be reversed, got popular and people flipped it.
Every time I saw it backwards I would curse that person.
I used to be a pirate too, back in the day. Eventually realised there's more to life than hoarding movies, games, and series I'll probably never get around to enjoying. These days, I'd rather spend my time creating than endlessly consuming. AI job compression is next . Good luck, fellow pirates!
Amazon specifically is what got me seriously pirating again. I already have Amazon Prime and for years that didn't have ads. Then suddenly I need to fork over another $3/m? Fuck you! How about instead I use that money and more to buy the parts I'm missing for a custom NAS, cancel all my streaming services, and pirate everything.
Oh, but since that means Amazon won't actually lose money off me (still need prime for shipping and we all know where I'm purchasing the parts) I'm also seeding at a 5.0 ratio.
It also didn't help that Netflix was doing another price hike and multiple services ended password sharing causing me to lose access to my sisters services. Amazon was the straw that broke the camel's back though. Big tech can bite my big fat ass.
For me it was the password sharing. My mother paid for services and shared her passwords. When they turned it off I set up a pirate server and gave her the password. Resulting in her canceling netflix, paramount, disney plus and apple tv. Only downside is losing suggestion algorithms.
If you don't have Seearr in your Arr stack then you should download it. It's just a big catalog of movies and TV shows. When you or other users find something you're interested in watching it can be "requested". After the admin approval (request from the admin account are automatically approved) Seearr will automatically add the move/ TV show to Radarr/ Sonarr.
If you don't have an Arr stack then you should set one up. It automates most of the media server and automatically searches for and downloads torrents for the media you've asked it to monitor. look up Trash guides. It'll walk you through the process of setting up the file system and the docker containers critical for the stack to function.
Funny how everyone used to have cable, which was full of commercials and you could only watch what was airing at that time. Cable companies were eating good. That's what these streaming companies want to get back to.
I did exactly that for the last 12 years. Still do. Will do.
My only subscription to this date is YouTube music, cuz ain't no way I'm downloading allat. I mean, I can, but I already have 150GB of downloaded tracks in app, finding em all on torrents would not only take a lot of time, but I'm not even sure some exist on torrents (niche or new authors with about 100 listeners).
Music is a huge pain so I don't bother. I just use Amazon music for $10 bucks a month or whatever. But movies and TV have gotten extremely easy. We're paring back as they raise prices and make themselves worse.
Unless you get yourself into one of the good private trackers torrenting music that isn't mainstream is definitely a bit of a crap shoot. Soulseek still exists though and is fantastic for downloading music, typically in much better quality than you'll find on YouTube/Spotify
oh its much worse. Add up the costs for stuff now and compare it to what a full maxxed out cable account cost INCLUDING ALL SPORTS and now add up all the diff platforms you gotta pay for the same thing.
No it isn't and your example is bad because virtually no one watches every single channel. Even most sports fans are only interested in 1-2 sports, otherwise Hockey wouldn't be as low profile as it is.
Plus you are forgetting about inflation. That $150 cable bill from 1999 would be roughly $303 today. And you could only watch it from your home, not wherever the fuck you are, including in a plane or train.
It still sucks that things are getting enshittified, but let's not get crazy.
When Netflix was the only game in town it was pretty much perfect. It didn't have everything but they could license from anyone and make their own shows. They made fewer good shows and actually spent time and money on them.
As more services popped up and reeled their content back in, then they became inconvenient as fuck.
For a bit there that was realy the only way to get MP3s for your mixs and MP3 players. You literally couldn't buy an individual track. Corner stone to the argument for piracy often being a symptom of service issues. It's always either service or cost and most folks will eat an absolute shit ton of cost if the service is adequate
What's funny is I stopped when streaming became a thing. But then the streaming services became the very thing they were supposed to replace. When I decided to raise my Jolly Roger again I was very impressed with how sophisticated piracy had gotten.
Back in the day you just had BitTorrent, pirate bay, and undeserved confidence in your ability to avoid viruses.
Now we have multiple server management options, easy to use NAS operating systems, consumer VPNs to avoid getting caught, and the Arr stack to even automate searching and downloading. After initial setup the most work I have to do is manually select whole season torrents for older shows since I still haven't gotten Sonarr to reliably prefer them.
Where can someone go to learn these talents? A digital Tortuga if you will. I was flying the jolly roger back in the days of BitTorrent as well, but the moderns ships be sailin' me by.
I didn't think a single Netflix disc I received ever went into a dvd or Blu-ray player. Came in, went into my PC, dvd decrypter/makemkv did it's thing, disc went back in the mailbox.
I was talking with my brother in law about this since he's thinking about building a server like I did. I explicitly told him that the only reason I'm using Plex is because I have a lifetime license and that he should use Jellyfin instead.
Don't get me wrong, I do think that the Plex software is good, otherwise I would have switched myself. I ain't paying a subscription or $750 (the current lifetime price) for it. That's just ridiculous.
To be honest the only real improvement plex has over Jellyfin for me is that you just throw random files in random folders at it and it all gets recognized correctly.
I have to do so much more organizing for Jellyfin. Although after the initial setup it works pretty well.
An ARR stack fixes that problem anyway. Sonarr and Radarr can rename and organize files as you download them. My NAS handles all that now anyway.
How does Jellyfin handle other users not on the same network? I can simply allow any Plex account, including free ones, access through the server software and they can watch from anywhere. Does Jellyfin work similarly?
It's on most of the important platforms these days. Here's the list of supported clients. The big one I see missing is PlayStation but all major TV operating systems are supported. If you have a dumb TV it looks like you should be able to use either a Fire stick or Roku, if not just building your own interface with a Pi or an old dell workstation.
Tangential to this, if anyone knows where I could purchase a dumb TV I'd love to know.
Tangential to this, if anyone knows where I could purchase a dumb TV I'd love to know.
I think ltt did a video about that recently? But yeah they basically aren't a thing anymore. I would just plug in my own solution and never connect it to the internet.
You wouldn't. You need Plex Pass to stream outside your home network. Yes, the primary use case is on a local network but to easily add remote users through their accounts, or to just log in yourself without reverse VPNing into your network, the server owner needs Plex Pass.
I've never used Jellyfin but It's my understanding that to remotely access a Jellyfin server you'd have to remote into your network anyway. Since both Jellyfin and a free Plex account would require the same amount of setup then you might as well just use Jellyfin. Also, from what I've seen Jellyfin isn't constantly trying to sell you crap.
My brother in law is just as good with computers as I am so I'm confident any annoyances that could come with using Jellyfin he could easily solve.
I could be mistaken though, I only started my home lab this year and I'm still learning about networking. I haven't done things like setting up my own domain to remotely access it more securly. If you know something I don't I would legitimately love to know.
$749.99 for you to use their software to host media using your bandwidth and electricity. It's nuts.
Jellyfin works great and is free. It's a little more finniky at the start but once you figure it out it's easy peasy
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I haven't found a single feature of Plex (at least one that I care about) that Jellyfin can't do for free. The only real benefit is how available the native app is.
I started with Jellyfin and it's always been flawless for me. Recently I wanted to give my mom access to my media but her TV didn't have a Jellyfin client app. I said screw it and spun up a Plex server to point at the same library. I knew they paywalled remote access but I figured I could still put it behind a reverse proxy. Nope, that is blocked too. I'm sure there's a way to spoof headers or something but it's more than I'm willing to do. I almost considered paying the $3/month for just the remote access pass until I found out that hardware transcoding is only available with the full Plex Pass.
Fuck that, I bought her a $30 android TV box and installed Jellyfin. Problem solved. I understand the devs have to eat too, but that's crazy. If you want to paywall convenience features, fine. Paywalling critical features is a bridge too far.
Think about how so many of us buy games we don't even really play. That's because steam made consumer friendly version of a service.
These services should be "Show you the first episode or two of a series/season for free, then pay to get the rest." Then as time goes on, it gets cheaper and cheaper.
Many people here who don't remember how television used to be are thinking "That's crazy!". Yes, but only because modern steaming series are 10 episodes long mystery box shows where entire episodes progress without anything happening, and the writers are instructed to make sure someone can always understand what is going on, even if they're looking at their phones. A TV season used to be 20-24 episodes of good, standalone content.
It is why shows nearly all end after 3 seasons, and also why they are all mediocre at best. Their goal isn't to make a good show, the goal to to make you keep a subscription. Those are NOT the same things.
Agree but I think this will never be a thing due to how TV and movie licensing works.
And given what happened with TV series and movies suddenly being yanked from people that had "bought" them, I'm never spending money "buying" anything from those services.
I used to Torrent a bunch back in the day... then as streaming hit its glory days, I kind of just stopped. Everything was cheap enough and good enough that I was fine paying the 10 bucks a month for most of the stuff I wanted to watch.
But this is so completely true, within the last like, 2 years... I've gone back to sailing the seas. It's not even that I can't afford it, I'm just absolutely tired of everything getting worse and worse for more money without me even changing my plans.
I will pay you to watch a show. I will not pay you to watch ads. Hell, I'm at the point where even starting the stream with a promo for one of your other shows is pushing me too far. I got HBO Max to watch The Pitt; well, joke's on me, because apparently I was signing up to watch the same promo for a friggin' Big Bang spinoff EVERY. TIME. I. WATCH. ANYTHING.
<whines in CEO> WhY aRe TheY pIrAtiNg oUr cOnTenT?
Because you not only keep jacking up the prices, but you make the act of watching your content unpleasant.
Kind of the opposite of your platform's purpose, you greedy pricks.
Everyone paying attention called it 20 years ago. Once consolidation was allowed to happen, these companies were just going to turn streaming into cable.
Fuck, the only reason they're not doing the mid-2000's anti-net neutrality "tiered internet packages" plan is because the internet has ALREADY consolidated into four fucking sites with everything else either gone or on life support.
It was fine when it was just Netflix: they provided everything for one low price.
they licensed the content from the copyright owners
the copyright owners got their cut
and we got everything for one low price
The content owners decided they wanted to cut out Netflix and stream it themselves, so they refused to license content to Netflix.
That should be illegal.
If you stream content online for a fee, you should be required to let 3rd parties also license the content for a reasonable wholesale price. (Like ISPs in Canada are required to let 3rd parties have access to their lines at wholesale rates).
It was fine when it was just Netflix: they provided everything for one low price.
Only because it was a new industry that had to establish a foothold and wide adoption through consumer value, and there were definitely going to be competitors on the rise.
Like, you could say the same thing about TiVo. Shit was great when TiVo was the only DVR. Didn't last.
A large part is that they literally don't want us to have a smooth, frictionless experience.
"I'm not interested in this show, why can't I remove the recommendation from my home screen and ignore it in listings?" Because they want you annoyed and lost. If you can watch exactly what you want without seeing ads for other things you'll spend less time on the service. And not everybody will watch everything but some % of people will eventually watch the thing they keep getting full screen nags for. They want you to not be able to ignore the parts of their library you're done with because then you may see the content getting thin and that may lead to you making plans for when you don't need the service any more.
Our desires as media consumers are not aligned with the for-profit media companies.
You don't even need to torrent anymore, if you only want to watch it and be good then there's hundreds upon hundreds of free streaming sites with all the movies and series you could ever want.
Exactly. I hate when someone says “high quality rip” when it’s like 700mb yifi. I’m sure the bitrates free sites are serving are potentially even lower. I can tell a massive difference between even a 5gb file and a 15gb and so on all the way up to 50gb or 100+ for a movie.
I think a lot of people don’t understand bitrate and think “hackers that add movies to torrents” know more about bitrate than movie studios and can somehow get a blu ray copy down that low. Not even remotely how it works. It’s an odd assumption to make but I’ve heard it so many times.
Alor safer and great advice. If you torrent and the copyright trolls get your ip you are toast.
The sites don't log ip or connect ip to "sharing" content. Only sharing content can hold up in court.
And then those streaming sites get taken down, and are full of ads which a lot of the time are malicious (that means spyware). Also they always have 720p or lower quality that is bit crushed to hell and always a low bitrate to lower their storage costs and streaming costs.
If I torrent a file, at full hd or 4k quality, then I get to keep that file for as long as I want. I build up my own Library of things I want to watch and watch when I want even offline and I don't get slapped in the face with ad after ad.
A certain site was great for downloading books, then some college student went on twitter bragging that he got all of his text books for free.. Soon after, the site was taken down due to legal pressure. That one guy ruined it for everyone
Reminds me of the guy on reddit who showed reddit how to GPS spoof price match a 711 gas app with another country to get gas for dirt cheap after using it for years, and it got patched within 3 hours.
The key to not losing great things is to shut the fuck up
I like to joke about the old days of Napster and Limewire where you were hoping you wouldnt feck up the family computer with viruses, so you downloaded the least sus looking files and hoped for the best.
Fuck, even if you were just browsing the web without clicking anything sketchy, you mights till end up getting fucked by infected ads. I still remember when noscript+adblock were new and how much safer it made things.
If we're being honest, someone using a meme based on a movie from 2002 and talking about torrenting stuff probably isn't Gen Z or A. The odds are good it's somebody older. These days most of the people in their early 20s and younger don't even know how to pirate things, let alone do anything with a computer or device that isn't immediately intuitive or built-in.
You take the number of customers who don't know how to pirate (A) subtract by the number of customers who we lose to pirating (B), all multiplied by the higher subscription cost (C). A minus B all multiplied by C equals X. If X is higher than the profits we're currently making, we raise the price...
I sailed the high seas when prices were not reasonable. I have always bought games and music when price was ok.
Currently, they're offering an expensive shitty service with 4k/HDR on expensive plans, ads on cheaper plans, the need to subscribe to different platforms simultaneously, and outrageous price increases twice per year.
At the moment I have already stopped using Spotify, Disney+ and Netflix. I don't care if I have to unsubscribe from everything, even if I couldn't pirate anymore: I have more videogames that I can play in a lifetime, I have lots of books, and I like going outside too.
I haven't paid for a streaming service in years. Just use all the free sites on the piracy sub. Even set my mom up with a laptop and showed her how to use some sites so she doesn't need to pay either. Just bought her a laptop, put firefox and an adblocker on and now she just connects that to her tv to watch movies.
Was it a millenial thing, i mean pirating. In my office IT colleagues of gen Z basically give up on things they can not legally acquire. Which is ethically correct i guess.
Pirating was very prevalent back in early 2000, I remember downloading almost everything (games, music, movies and TV series, software) back then using all kind of file sharing software. The issue was mostly accessibility, you couldn't get all of those, and sometimes it was too expensive (especially when being young with limited budget). When all of those become more accessible and affordable, I neglected piracy. When gen Z was old enough to use the internet, getting those IPs was so much easier and affordable, it just made sense for most them getting those things legally.
I'm a millenial and I always get such weird looks from people when I tell them I pirate everything. And I mean everything too TV shows, Movies, Books, Audiobooks, etc... It's got the point where I just don't bring it up anymore.
I do find it funny though when I tell someone to watch something and they ask me what it's streaming on.
Same on all counts. I tell people I have a plex server and when i get the huh look, I just call it my own private netflix like service but all the movies I want to have. They are blown away. My kids both asked me if it was stealing and I said kinda, ya. I told them if they didn't like knowing that, that I would shut it down. When they realized they wouldn't have all the content they have always had, it changed their minds.
We millennials know what its like to actually own the physical form of your media. When we've seen companies disappear or lose a license to stream some content, we see that as greed over everything. So fuck their green, I'll sail the seas.
It's wild what people deal with now. I was over at my brothers place and they have Prime video. We started watching a movie and there were commercials in it. That would drive me nuts if I had to deal with that everyday.
Gen Z and younger were born into a world where everything you do is tracked and recorded for eternity so they're hyper aware of "doing the wrong thing". I'm Gen X so I grew up a latchkey kid with zero adult supervision but I get what they're going through
It might just be your team. I work in cybersecurity as a pentester, and our Gen Z colleagues are legit. They all have home labs with Plex/Jellyfin servers, and one has a full dashboard to manage all his *arrs accessible remotely via tailscale. He showed it to us as an intern and it was a major factor behind our decision to extend him a full time offer.
When it became easier to pay for it than pirate it then things shifted. The greed of the services may cause things to shift back, however.
I used to just pay for the services all the time but the monthly cost of having so many is just too much now so I’ll pay for a month, watch my shows, then cut it again for 6 months or more.
It's easier to pirate than ever now. You literally just need to pay for a $5/month service so your ISP doesn't send you DMCA request and you're good. Then you hook that up to an app like Stremio and you basically have a Netflix style interface to watch whatever you want from any streaming service.
Ya, taught my nephew about computers and he says none of his friends do anything but use phones and tablets. This generation is so hosed it's not even funny. I thought millennials had it bad, but these iPad Gen Z kids are gonna have serious problems.
I'm Millennial, IT, and very familiar/comfortable with torrenting, but I don't even bother. Because the shit coming out of these streaming platforms either suck or get canceled within 2-3 seasons. So there's just no point in bothering. It's healthier to watch less tv anyway. I think IASIP was the last Western series I cared about, but I just can't get past the horrendous plastic surgery that Rob and Kaitlyn got a few years ago so I don't even have the desire to watch the newer seasons.
Real. There's maybe 2 things worth watching a year across the various networks. Last year it was maybe one, adolescence. Theres hundreds of things that are "fine" per year but its okay to not just grind life away in front of serviceable bread and circuses.
We ALL sailed the high seas in the early 2000's. Netflix at the time was a DVD rental service through your mail. There was no streaming services. In order to get a digital copy you ripped your own movies or pirated digital versions.
Along with movies video games and computer software were always cracked to be free to use.
My professors encouraged us to use our schools LAN to download and use pirated software that we required to use for school, but was expensive (AutoCAD)
My friend gave me an invite only link to a website which was equivalent of Netflix, only you downloaded and seeded the media you wanted.
Streaming services keep moving the goalposts. We as customers keep saying ok, because its convenient. Let’s be honest, streaming services are digging their own hole. Soon, we’ll be back ij the before times when torrents were more convenient.
Even if prices were the same, for movies especially, the 1080p streaming quality often sucks ass. For Netflix I upgraded to 4K but immediately regretted it: it switched to a high frame rate, which looks terrible and cannot be turned off. And the higher resolution wasn't even that great.
The only real way to watch high quality 4K movies is BluRay. Or a rip of a BluRay, which can be found on the seas, not streaming.
My router handles the tv signal so I can just watch tv on my pc.
I wrote a bash script that lets me set a date and time, a tv station, and a recording length.
The script wakes the pc from sleep at the set time, starts the tv stream via vlc player, starts obs and records for the set amount of time. Then it ends the recording, waits for 2 minutes to finish up the mp4 file, and goes back to sleep.
I can iterate the script and Input multiple dates and stations. Thing is, because of how my router handles the dvb-c streams, at any given time there can only be one stream running per device, so I set the tower as primary recorder and my old laptop as backup recorder.
For example, tonight my tower will wake up at 20:10, record 'The Fifth Element' from 20:15 to 22:50 on one station, go to sleep, wake up again at 0:50 record Rocky on another station and go to sleep. My secondary laptop is also gonna record 'Monster Inc' from 20:15 to 22:05 from a third channel, then switch to a fourth channel and record two episodes of futurama before going back to sleep.
In the mean time, I'm just gonna go and watch The Joker with a friend.
TV recordings are completely legal in germany and cutting out the ad breaks afterwards is done in about 5 minutes per movie. Just like that, I can add 3 movies and 2 episodes of futurama to my offline netflix.
Over this weekend alone I am going to record 9 movies and a couple of episodes of different shows.
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Appreciate the correct format.