• SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I hate people defending subscriptions. They are not required for anything other than insurance or something you guaranteed will keep, like phone contracts. If they need more money for content, release content packs and dlc. Online should not cost, especially if someone like Nintendo is using peer2peer or will shut down the online servers anyways at some point.

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    11 months ago

    Truenas scale to host:

    Jellyfin (alternative to movie/tv streaming services)

    Navidrome (alternative to Apple Music/spotify)

    Obsidian

    The “-arr” services

    Tailscale (to access these services outside of my house)

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    As everyone else here, I think piracy is illegal and immoral. We should accept that we don’t own our services and software and we should never doubt that corporations have our best interest in mind.

    Therefore you should never have a Plex server, never use protonmail, never use AdGuard Home, never use AdGuard DNS for private DNS.

    Also you should never use Firefox with UBlock origin sponsorblock and consent o magic.

    Lastly you should never ever use re-vanced and x-manager, and God forbid don’t use a VPN

    Edit: syntax

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        11 months ago

        That’s why bandcamp is one of the few places I’ll willingly spend money on digital media. DRM-free downloading in flac format? Yes please.

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    The only subscriptions I am willing to pay for:

    Phone bill - no choice
    Internet bill - no choice
    Insurance - no choice
    World of Warcraft - sue me
    Costco membership - worth it
    VPN - worth it

    I don’t pay for any others. Paid for lifetime Plex for the convenience of not needing to pay for a website domain like I would for jellyfin, and self host my own music, tv, and movies

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      11 months ago

      3 of those are services. Most subscription shit we see these days are products that they want us to treat like services even though there is no on going consumption. All of these software subscription services are just grifts.

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    11 months ago

    You guys are complaining about a subscription to apple and amazon ? go look how much a subscription to an Autodesk product costs ?