Enjoyed this and now following consumer surplus. Any other newsletters / blogs that you would recommend?

To sum up for anyone finding this later:

Running your own jellyfin server is best and free. Check out the servarr community to get started. Will take a bit of setting up but if you can figure out Lemmy, you can figure this out. I’d personally recommend some kind of Usenet subscription with this but some might prefer to use torrents.

You can do what I do and get an app share where someone else runs the server, downloads everything for you etc and you pay to use their service.

Stremio / Syncler paired with a paid real-debrid account seems like a good solution but you can use torrents if you don’t want to pay anything. This is seriously good and cheaper than an app share. I’m getting rid of my backup app share and using this in its place.

Thanks all!

Amazing thanks for the help I’ll try them later on

Ah that makes sense, shouldn’t be too much hassle to get them in there then if I can find a good source of torrents. What’s the go to place for those?

Thanks so much

Nice, I had a play with this earlier and it seems to work well if you know what you want to watch. Did see a few ‘no results found’ for some obscure shows

Nice so after I posted I went and started setting this up. What provider(s) are you using? I’m using Syncler+ and RD with a Jake something provider. Have seen quite a few ‘no results’ except for newer things and it’s a lot slower than stremio to find links but it does look way nicer.

That’s similar to what I ran before although it was Emby and Usenet (sabnzbd) as I didn’t have access to any decent trackers for torrenting. Was fine just for me but I need to provide more of a Netflix experience for my non tech savvy household and the storage cost would make it painful

Err “we” as inhabitants of the earth and users of the internet I guess. Even if you don’t personally use social media, you are aware that plenty of others do and it has had a very significant impact on many individuals and societies around the world right?

This seems like a sensible take on the subject.

Tbf I think I’d like it more if we had online shopping, cell phones, instant messaging etc but we didn’t have social media as we know it today. Like we stuck with phpbb, Usenet and IRC and didn’t move much more beyond that into Myspace and Facebook

Maybe? But the dinner should definitely only consist of phallic foods. All the sausages (bonus points for those big Chorizo that curl up), aubergine, cucumber etc churros for dessert. Really sets the tone.

Ask them to dinner and explain you usually like to enjoy a hot meal with someone before you see them naked. Classy AF.

Yeah I managed to get Creatures 3 and Docking Station working fairly recently and really enjoyed my time with them. I was obsessed as a kid.

Yep!

Nope. Great game though

Not sure if they do screen sharing but I’ve seen some buzz around ‘revolt’ recently which is self-hostable.

Digital Lifeforms in Virtual Ecosystem

You got it!