“People acting in their own financial interests frustrates money-hungry company”
FTFY
Funny way of saying “half of Gen Z are not falling for the typical consumer spend spend spend trap”. And as a millennial I say good for them. About time large chunks of people see the consumption driven economy game for what it is.
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I’m doing that and I’m not even short of money.
Just sick of nothing being available when I want it, on another app, and having to scan several services to confirm that.
With Jellyfin it’s just there. There’s no ads. There’s no “oh hey you looked away from the credits for five seconds I’ll just play something else”.
Or Plex. Or Emby.
I still don’t get how to get Jellyfin to work with the streaming part. If I have media, fine. But getting the streaming of all those or sports, ain’t happening.
Use an LLM. That might help you.
Valid, of course. Although,
I’m doing that and I’m not even short of money.
Among all the other reasons, I’m not short of money, but I can still use that money for other things. And honestly, even just throwing the savings down a drain at least means it doesn’t go to these companies.
The other day my Mum was locked out of her Apple TV account for some reason, by some miracle she managed to get back on and all I could think of was how much easier this’d be if we just torrented everything and just used some Jellyfin client.
Or Plex. Or Emby.
Only with Usenet.
yup, I do my part by pirating and sharing 🫡
Turns out saddling a generation with debt, and then telling them the AI is gonna take all the jobs doesn’t do a lot for moral, or our finances.
Nevermind that there’s a middle East forever war 2.0 going on that’s jacking up the cost of everything right now.
Being an elder Gen Z (1998) adds a special layer to this cuz I’m pushing 30, running an open-source OS everywhere I can and I’m indirectly being called an iPad baby lmao
So you’re saying people without money don’t act like they have disposable income? Fucking science!
They have no money, and they’re going to have to live with the result of choices made long ago by wealthy people who are dead now.
I wouldn’t be doing a damn thing if I was them, except maybe riot.
Good. Cancel your streaming services. All of them. Just pirate shit.
I cannot upvote a paywalled source
yes, blurring the article if you don’t disable ad blocking is a paywall
Firefox’s Reader View works for me.
People will do just about anything but use Firefox. Whatever, I love Firefox + Ublock Origin. I cannot imagine being a chump and rawdogging the internet will all the ads and bullshit.
I haven’t seen an ad in 3 years, and I haven’t wanted to see one once in that timeframe.
Go ahead and check out what shows up on the Edge start page when you first launch it on a new profile/fresh Windows install. Pay close attention to specifically which shortcuts and news stories they present to you by default.
Sir, I’m a dork. I have used neither Windows nor Edge in, well ever. I switched before Edge was even created.
I only use windows at work, and only when I really have to. The other day I had to use a new fresh VM and I had some…concerns…over the “default” choices.
Noscript too!
Pfft. I’m in my 40s with an established engineering career and a small home that I’ve owned for 18 years now.
I am also not paying for any streaming services I can avoid, not buying many games, sailing the high seas, and our cars are like 13/14 years old.
Because shit is crazy, especially being in the US. I am keeping my world small and focusing on my family and my community.
Millennial here.
I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.
Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.
Netflix’ catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.
I wasn’t really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I’d listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).
Injected ads in RSS podcasts are common too - they’ll look at the IP address and serve a location-specific episode.
Tragic to hear. I didn’t even think of RSS as vulnerable to advertising, but of course it is.
Got any recommendations for where to download music these days?
Well, spotify. I did a run with spot-dl before ending my subscription.
I self-host with navidrome and stream/sync to my phone with Tempus.
But 97% of my listening nowadays is just streaming HYPR demoscene radio.
spot-dl is Youtube (yt-dlp).
Take a look at soul seek or nicotine. Plus of course a VPN.
Thanks!
Soulseek
Bandcamp or rip CDs at the library. Ytdlp if you want to rip audio from YouTube. Picard to fingerprint and tag the files.
Thank you, Picard looks useful!
Still paying for Spotify. At least Spotify is not shit from consumer prospective. Stremio/Kodi + a debrid service are better then any subscription and cheaper.
Not downvoting because your opinions are your own, but Spotify has been trying to worsen your experience. Lately they’ve been allowing AI-generated content on their platform, and before that they were hiring “ghost bands” to keep royalty money away from legitimate artists.
It is not about my opinion, it is about my experience as customer. While I agree that Spotify is bad regarding some practices, as a person that listen to music I am not as negatively affected by those policies as with others video streaming platforms. Same with steam: while there are some questionable practices linked with steam as monopoly, from a consumer prospective it is still not “shitty”.
A better phrase probably would have been “your experience.” If you don’t use playlists that Spotify wants you to listen to, you might not notice these issues. I used to prefer Spotify for exploratory reasons, so this is a massive disappointment to me.
I don’t mind injected podcast ads so much, especially for smaller podcasts that need some financial support. What I tend to do is use a VPN, that way the podcast is in my local language, but the ads are in another that I don’t understand. I get my podcast, podcasters get paid, and I avoid tracking and brainwashing. win-win-win
I wouldn’t it mind it if I was on a free tier. I’d think some of my subscription moneys would go to the creators.
Things get too expensive and people who don’t have the extra cash will find a way to spend less, or not at all. Remember this, all of you shareholders, if you price the customers out of buying your product then you’ve only screwed yourselves and your greed is to blame. What is wrong with a standard, healthy 10% profit?
100% still have to keep your seed ratio up. It works out for me, though, because I use it for my home media server, so it’s mostly files I’m holding on to anyway.
If media companies want a consistent user base, media companies can politically lobby for their users to receive wages high enough to include disposable income. If media companies won’t go to bat for their subscribers, why should their subscribers give them anything more than short shrift? (there’s your phrase for the day)
Sorry, best they can do is lobby for year-long contracts only.
Fordism is dead. Sorry. Try again next Industrial Revolution.
tf you expected we’re all broke. you’re lucky some of us haven’t heard of piracy yet (somehow)
Skill issue (sad gen Z noises)
