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SSJMarx ,

thesis: Netflix and chill

antithesis: Torrent and chill

synthesis: Stremio/Torrentio and chill

Blopen_scr0pen ,

Once I was with a girl and taking too long to get a torrent going so she whips out her phone and does it herself. Safe enough to say that we are together now.

areyouevenreal ,

Wow torrenting on a phone. I know it’s possible but I always thought it was slow or difficult.

whats_all_this_then ,

On Android, Flud has been good to me over the years even though the ads can get annoying at times. Hopefully it helps you get Linux ISOs on your phone with ease :)

LinusSexTips ,

Man, I used that app in 2014… Still remember torrenting music on my phone one the way to Melbourne for a concert 😅

I’d suggest alternatives from fdroid over the play store.

f-droid.org/…/org.proninyaroslav.libretorrent/apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/…/com.ap.transmission.btc

Blopen_scr0pen ,

It might have actually been a streaming site now remembering. She used a vpn to connect to Mainland China, typed some Chinese into a Chinese search engine and found it on a Chinese website.

areyouevenreal ,

What the actual fuck? Never thought of learning Chinese just to pirate something. Unless she already knew Chinese?

JackbyDev ,

Hot

JameUwU ,

Anon has never purchased an Android TV and rooted it

Xenny ,

Amateur. You set this up ahead of time.

AVincentInSpace ,

When you’re torrenting and you’re planning to watch with someone else, you decide what you’re watching at least eight hours in advance, preferably a day. Radarr can’t find stuff instantaneously, assuming the automated search finds it at all, and torrents can take hours to finish, plus leaving time to resolve technical mishaps with your *arr stack, like the VPN being dead. If you and the person you wanna watch with aren’t going to be in the same room, you’ll have to set aside even longer in order to transcode it into a format a browser can play at a bitrate that’s low enough to stream, and load it into your HTTP server so that Cytube can play it. Ideally you’d block out some time to test and troubleshoot Cytube too.

areyouevenreal ,

I have none of these issues, but I use Usenet soo…

Honestly though if push comes to shove Stremio and RealDebrid can work wonders provided your internet is actually fast enough.

el_abuelo ,

Another vote for usenet. Somewhat less accessible than torrents but worth the effort and money.

Honytawk ,

Most popular movies have enough seeders to finish in 20 minutes where I live.

But if I were in OP’s shoes, I would just turn to streaming and forego the slightly better quality.

The movie isn’t the most important thing at that point.

JackbyDev ,

OP doesn’t pay for streaming on the hypothetical (because we all know this isn’t a real story lol).

SSJMarx ,

Instead of Radarr, Stremio (with the Torrentio addon) lets you browse torrent trackers as though you were browsing Netflix and stream from them directly. It’s so goddamn convenient because you don’t have to remember what’s on which streaming service it hurts.

Riven ,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Or just have a VPN on and go to fmovies or whatever to stream it for free since you’re already on a laptop with connection anyways.

Ilovethebomb ,

This is a great example of why Netflix is still so profitable.

2ugly2live ,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

What’s with the “ooga booga woman scared by tech” meme? Like, people have been torrenting for ages, it’s not like it’s underground.

And just have it downloaded? “Hey, wanna come over and watch ____? Yes? Cool, see you then.” Then start the download. If it’s popular, you’ll have the file in, like, 10 minutes. And if she’s that “confused” by an hdmi cable (which is an extremely common cable these days, but whatever), put it on a flash drive and plug that in. And if someone is interested, I can’t imagine setting something up would make them leave? “Oh gosh, he had a laptop and a… A cable, you say? Well golly gee, I should run away from this fringe tech afficionado because who does that???”

I don’t know why some guys act like tech just washed over women. We were there sailing the same high seas as the rest of ya’ll.

“What do you mean the movie will come from the laptop?” Boy, bye

Omniraptor ,

I’m choosing to interpret it as her getting skeeved out over anon not having their shit together.

>not downloading the movie in advance
>not knowing about the “download in sequential order” option on the client that lets you start watching quickly

2ugly2live ,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

That makes more sense 🤔 Guess jokes on me for assuming it was the other way lmao

Omniraptor ,

no, that was the point of the original post. I just decided to imagine a better version in my head D:

P4ulin_Kbana ,

I like your comment because it tells me why I didn’t found this that much funny.

remotedev ,

I thought it was supposed to be an old person confused

2ugly2live ,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

I like that. Anon just likes hanging with cougars, even if they’re not always tech savvy.

blind3rdeye ,

A person would have to be very old indeed to be out of range for knowing about HDMI cables.

Randelung ,

Tech literacy has peaked hard with millenials.

Honytawk ,

Don’t think it is about women being scared by tech, but “normies” only really knowing how to use Netflix to watch a movie.

Riven ,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Although that may be true the ‘normies’ I’ve spoken with about this aren’t necessarily stupid. They may just not have it on the radar because it’s not their interest, some show interest in how it works and at worst I’ve found they say oh that’s interesting it’s pirating right? And that’s it.

My coworker is super non tech savvy and has no interest and even she just says ‘it flies over my head but I trust you to get it done’.

4channers now a days aren’t even good at making up lies/making shit posts. All they can do is low level rage bait. Pathetic.

JackbyDev ,

In the post the woman is not the butt of the joke for being tech illiterate (and I’d argue they aren’t presented as that), the joke is on Anon for insisting on using free/techy stuff rather than costly but convenient things and ruining the vibe of the evening. This could just as easily say “Anon, why are you still fiddling with the picture settings? It looks fine. Motion blur? I don’t know what that is. It looks fine. Just watch the movie.”

Huschke ,

This is why you have a server running jellyfin qbittorent, Jackett, sonarr, radarr, all behind a good VPN.

Anon is obviously a noob and deserves the walkout.

admin ,

The iPad with VLC works great for portability too.

SRo ,

But that means you use a Apple device so you are a noob and deserve the walkout.

admin ,

Yeah I was SSHing the movies to it directly from my server but I doubt you know what that is.

SRo ,

Oh I guess I have to quit my job then :(

admin ,

:(

JackbyDev ,

I know this isn’t a shitpost, but this reads like fake hacker speech lol

admin ,

I am an aspiring technical writer so I will take that as a compliment.

Zoot ,
@Zoot@reddthat.com avatar

What fantasy world do you live in? Any man who can pull out a simple apple machine and make everything work must be a normie and will win the hearts of many

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

If she doesn’t like my slavish devotion to foss alongside my extensive collection of katanas then she’s simply not the one for me

JackbyDev ,

But is the sword design open hardware?

Ulvain ,

Jellyfin > plex?

Randelung ,

FOSS always > everything else.

clickyello ,

do you know of any good guides that explain how to set up a full stack like this? I’ve been meaning to level up my movie watching game but don’t know how these services interact with each other

Huschke ,

No sorry, I did it all manually with my own custom docker setup. I’m sure there are guides out there though.

stom ,

The servarr wiki has guides for seeing up each of the services

BruceTwarzen ,

Idk, i just run kodi and the crew. It has never failed me.

thawed_caveman ,

Mostly what i see is a lack of preparedness. If i had a date over the movie would be downloaded and the TV plugged in a week in advance.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, I’m old and wasn’t sure why a person was in their house who wasn’t aware that they watched pirated stuff. Being annoyed that everything wasn’t set up ahead of time makes sense, but anyone who cares about things being pirated isn’t worth dating anyway.

kameecoding ,

Manual torrenting? Fucking hell, that’s some weak ass shit, i have all my shit on my plex/jellyfin server

rickyrigatoni ,

If she doesn’t know what a hdmi cable is I’m boiling her into a stew.

paultimate14 ,

50 tabs? She dodged a bullet.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Rookie numbers. Real chads have >100.

chemicalprophet ,

That was a close save! I wouldn’t fuck a blind consumer with your dick…

Dicska ,

But how about someone else’s?

franklin ,
@franklin@lemmy.world avatar

My wife has learned the way of stremio and loves it, there is hope!

PenisDuckCuck9001 , (edited )

I’ll either watch pirated content or nothing at all. Having a bunch of streaming services that you pay out the ass for is a turn off for me because it suggests a lack of financial responsibility. Deal with it.

ichbinjasokreativ ,

Exactly. Couple years ago when everything was on netflix I gladly gave them money but now it feels like every season of every somewhat good show is on a different platform.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup. That’s why I cancelled my Disney+ sub (just bought the 3-4 shows my kids watch) and I’m pushing my wife to cancel Netflix. We’d rather not pirate, but I’m not going to keep paying for a sub that either has ads (screw that) or isn’t worth the price of content.

I’ve been a Netflix sub for ~10 years, and now I’m trying to cancel because their value prop has fallen off a cliff.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

You do realize there’s a middleground there, right?

I buy the content I want and rip it to my NAS to stream to my TV. My total cost is less than streaming services (I don’t watch a lot), but I do pay for the content. So the only complication on my network is if my NAS turns off, in which case I’ll just walk over and powercycle it and we’re good. One great part is that if my internet dies (it seems to go out like once/month), I can still stream whatever, so my setup is better IMO than streaming services.

Subscriptions are for suckers, but that doesn’t mean piracy is the only alternative. I only pirate stuff I can’t get legally at a reasonable price (e.g. old movies/shows, streaming service exclusives, etc).

Emerald ,

Having a bunch of streaming services that you pay out the ass for is a turn off for me because it suggests a lack of financial responsibility

I don’t have a problem with people paying for things. I just don’t know why people pay for things when they don’t actually get freedom from that service in return. It’s all DRM-encumbered crap

IdleSheep , (edited )
@IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I’ve had a lot of different setups over the years on my TV to see if my family (all “what’s a computer?” level of computer illiterate) could get the hang of it, and the one that clicked for all of them was Stremio+torrentio. Pop in a debrid service to avoid downtime/buffering issues and they’ve never complained since.

Omgboom ,

Setup Servarr and get all the women

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