• setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    57
    ·
    1 year ago

    Savvy tech users consistently underestimate how much hostile corporate behavior the general population is willing to put up with.

    • li10@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      1 year ago

      I thought that Netflix would be caught out by the number of people turning to piracy, but I guess there’s also a lot of older people who have to setup their own account now that they can’t use a relative’s. Or just get the add on for the relative’s existing sub.

      I cancelled my Netflix subscription, but it looks like I might need to set one up for my mum and my nan instead :/

      • setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        20
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Older people are an obvious demographic that won’t jump ship, but don’t turn a blind eye to the younger generation. It isn’t boomers who throw $70+ at video games on a constant basis. The threshold for a convenience/value ratio seems very low for a lot of people.

        As an unrelated and statistically insignificant anecdote, the two biggest pirates I know are both actual literal boomers.

        • li10@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          1 year ago

          That’s true about young people tolerating it.

          I’ve got a Sonarr/Plex setup that works really well for me, but it was a pain to get it all set up initially and I think even computer literate people would struggle.

          • ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            1 year ago

            You’re absolutely right.

            I built my own computer, been using PCs since I was two years old, I know how to use CLIs and I already run Plex. But Sonarr was such a fucking hassle to set it up that I got halfway through the set up and gave up.

            • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.org
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              What they don’t explain is that you need two accounts (or more) for these to work.

              A Usenet account.

              An indexer account that is basically a search engine.

              You also need a download app like nzbget. And ofc you setup an account on that and plug it into sonarr.

              And an account for the nas or storage if it’s not local.

              Sonarr searches the index, finds the files, talks to nzbget and says “download that shit for me and put it together”. Nzbget uses the Usenet account to fetch the stuff, assembles the parts and tells sonarr I’m done. Sonarr then renames it and puts it on your nas.

              It’s admittedly fairly abstract, even for someone seasoned in systems admin work.

              • surrendertogravity@beehaw.org
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                eh, as someone quite used to pirating on private trackers with qbittorrent, I didn’t find it too difficult to conceptualize once I really looked at how the *Arr pipeline works - at least with torrents. Usenet is an entirely different beast that I haven’t needed to tackle since torrents have everything I need so far.

                As per most tech things, though, I don’t think there’s a good end-to-end guide out there (lots of piecemeal ones, though) and having good research skills and being able to fill in the gaps in guides yourself is pretty important.

                • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.org
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  As per most tech things, though, I don’t think there’s a good end-to-end guide out there (lots of piecemeal ones, though) and having good research skills and being able to fill in the gaps in guides yourself is pretty important.

                  Yeah for sure. For most non-techy folks using one of the arrs setups or even plex has a pretty steep curve.

                  It’s why Netflix will continue to make subs.

                  I think what’s missing from this article is they have had a show or two lately that have been solid. Ie: the Diplomat. And that will drive up subs. But not sure it has the staying power. Folks will flip back to something else when another service drops something good.

          • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            How do those things work? When I first saw them come in to existence I was under the impression they were just front ends for navigating and playing media in your personal library and storage, like windows media centre used to be, but they seem to be something altogether a lot more capable and complicated. Where does the content come from? Is it streamed?

            • eddythompson@beehaw.org
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              The content is either ripped from Blu-ray/dvd or (most commonly) just pirated. Sonarr is an “automated” pirating software. You hook it up with a couple of popular torrent trackers, and configure TV shows you want to track/watch. It queried TVDB and other IMDb like services as well as torrent trackers to automatically detect when a new episode was released and auto-download it.

              Plex is the media organizer/player after you’ve “acquired” your media.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      But then I couldn’t watch Netflix!!

      When was the last time you actually did watch Netflix, and even then how often have you watched it?

      …but I need to watch Netflix