Not on my media server it ain’t.
On high seas there are no ads arr… 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I appreciate the article points out AppleTV as being the only one without ads at this point. They also have great shows and the fidelity of the video is good.
Tim Cook sucks at this point, but who ever is running the TV business is doing a good job.
They just added ads to their Maps app, I am 100% expecting them to add ads to AppleTV
Indeed, i despide apple in almost everything, but apple TV, its shows, the color pallets picked for many shows, their quality, etc is just amazing
I have hated Apple since Jobs was alive and being a dickhead to his employees. With that being said, Widow’s Bay was pretty damn awesome. I sure as shit didn’t pay for it though.
Tim Cook sucks at this point
Careful there.
Maybe I should start running ads on my jellyfin server. Something like “want unlimited bluey for a weekend? Clear and load the dishwasher twice this week”
Or “want +16 content? Start being an adult and use the toilet brush”
You may have just become your parents
Ngl that might work on me, gating Bluey behind the dishwasher. At least until the obsession ran out.
some time ago I saw an homeassistant customizatoin where the smartplug for TV would turn on only after the child confirmed they completed a bunch of tasks (homework, putting away toys etc). Sure they could “cheat” but that would just trigger a total ban for a month.
Borrowing this idea.
I saw great potential in streaming. Then physical media started to evaporate. Then everyone started to have their own streaming platform. Then came the ads.
By the time I could have afforded them, it got enshittified. Back to swashbuckling I guess.
Was the plan all along. You gotta pay the same price, but now also watch ads and have it all gone once you stop paying for subscriptions.
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In the golden age of television, advertisers paid for the production of content and used the content to sell their wares by placing “commercials” within. Now they no longer produce content but have made deals with the content creators to insert their ads, while the end user, the consumer of content, suffers for it.
I:m so used to block ads on every platform I use. That everytime I’m forced to use an infected version of said platform I’m shocked by the amount of ads that are being shuved down your throat.
I haven’t watched something with ads in it for many years.
Y’all know how.
Only time is when I stay in hotels and watch their cable. It’s so weird and insulting after freeing myself from them for so long. It breaks up the pace and basically ruins the entire experience.
Maybe look into getting a GL.inet travel router with WiFi and a Chromecast/Android stick. I use that when I travel. Setup a WiFi network on the travel router and setup the Chromecast on it for when you’re at the hotel.
At the hotel, either jack the travel router into a network port then use your phone to sign in to the hotel’s network, or configure Repeater/WISP to get the travel router to connect to and re-broadcast the hotel WiFi (again using your phone or PC to sign in). Going Repeater/WISP brings a sizeable performance hit due to the lack of radios but it’s definitely do-able.
If you’re hosting Jellyfin externally, job done. If not, you can configure OpenVPN/Wireguard on the travel router and your home router and connect privately that way.
Source: Tech worker who had a requirement to be overseas 80% of the year in different hotels :)
https://www.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers
https://wifirepeater.org/openwrt-wisp-repeater-mode-configuration/
“Piracy is a service problem.”
We have a service problem.
That’s why I subscribe to Jellyfin Plus Pro Premium Ad-Free.
The others had their chance. They chose greed.
Jellyfin Plus Pro Premium Ad-Free truly is the best service available. My favorite part is it’s streaming service agnostic, I actually own the media, and it’s immune from a corporation taking media away from the particular streaming service because they wanted to make their own streaming service!
The verge: “it started with ads and blabla”.
No.
It started when people were pirating and life was good. Then the streaming came with a good product and a fair price -> people agreed with that and people stopped pirating.
Companies started to enshitify the product, we are now at this point.
I am not suggesting you what to do.
But we all know what TO do.
Not even close
I know a bunch of people on lemmy don’t constitute a diversified survey, but this is verbatim me.
It’s kinda ironic that verge is also paywalled. I guess at least is not ad-walled.
just fucking torrent it all you losers. a vpn sub is cheaper than netflix.
Sometimes I make it a challenge. Can my other half access the content the “right” way faster than a torrent can be found?
Lemmy: Arrrr!
Big Tech: take away their PC and give them some completely locked down box fully under our control, to protect the children of course. And no more physical media!
The only answer to that is probably board games and books.
Team Arrrr here. ;-)
Holy shit! Now I got it why they are called Sonarr, Radarr, etc… 🤦♂️
Yeah, took me a while to get that, I had the same holy shit moment about a year ago… ;-)
or just go to your local library where they have 1000s of dvds/blu rays for you to borrow for free
My library does streaming now, don’t even need to make the trip, it’s pretty awesome.
Good luck with that. I still have functional PCs that are 20 yrs old and perfectly fine as Jellyfin servers.
As much as people love doom mongering about big-tech coming for your PC, I just dont see it. There’s a temporary price spike in some components atm yes, but that will end when the AI bubble pops. Further than that I just dont see what people think is going to happen, outlawing linux? Banning the import of PC components? The amount of damage either of those would do to the economy is so huge It just wouldnt happen.
Age verification, id verification, mandatory DRM, only allow certified apps from official app stores, block systems not on the approved list from login onto sites, issues using school and government sites. Then payment processors get involved to refuse cash to those not following the program.
It’s a slow squeeze instead of outright ban that leaves Big Tech boxes and Dark Web boxes.
But they can’t force us to buy. Say they managed to fully stop piracy, there is still the solution not to buy stuff. It’s not like we need this to live, and we should do more of “vote with your wallet”. Money is the only language they get.
In retrospect, we dodged a bullet when the Internet developed the way that it did, in an open fashion, at Universities, largely by hippies (and, later, furries).
Remember Compuserve? And early AOL? I remember Quantumlink (Steve Case’s company that eventually turned into AoL) and how my parents had to pay for it by the hour.
Tech Companies wanted to erect tool booths on computer communication, just like the phone network, but the Internet (and it’s open architecture) beat them to the punch. They’ve been trying to fix that bug ever since. But they figured out that if the interconnect is open, they can still charge a toll if they have root access in the hardware at both sides. Once TVs became computers, it became so much easier.
None of those exist or, as far I am aware, are being proposed for computers though? Yes there are some restrictions being brought in to block access to some content on the web (DRM, ID and age gating) which are shit, but I’ve heard nothing about using any of that to block access to general computing.
Apple has always banned you from sideloading anything on an iPhone and now Google is following suit. Soon Google will make sidelong a giant pain in the ass and only available to “developers” with the reason being to scare normal people into thinking doing things how they are done now is “too dangerous” and that they need to nanny us and not give us full control of our devices.
Microsoft is still desperately trying to shove everyone onto their Microsoft store and their “universal” appx bullshit or whatever. Once enough people have been switched over, its game over for traditional executables.
For context the Microsoft Store came out in 2012 and was a big reason why Valve went all-in on Linux because they could see what Microsoft’s long term goal was here from a mile away.
It’s been 13 years of slow build up to this.
You are the frog in the slowly boiling pot.
I dont really consider Phones to be general purpose computing device because they have always been very locked down, yes google is making android worse but it has pretty much always been a walled garden with a rusty but technically open back door.
I think the fact that microsoft started trying 14 years ago to push people away from standard executables and still has not made significant inroads tells you all you need to know there. Window’s fundamental value proposition is its backwards compatibility, Linux has no interest in locking things down even if it did it would be forked to a free version in hours. The only one where there might be a case there is on mac.
No, these are things tested on gaming and phones. If it works and there isn’t much resistance it’ll come to regular computers too. First you had Steam for games, then came the iphone with an app store and then it became a thing in general computing. That’s how things go.
I have the feeling that the AI bubble isn’t going to burst as everyone expects, it will, but I don’t think it will restore prices to the good old days
Even if prices fall, the economic damage will be severe and nobody will be in the mood for spending much on components. Folks have already probems and jobs are cut at the height of the bubble so that’s not going to end well.
Oh it will, but what it will leave behind is the same mess of big megacorps who will retain the technology and use it for evil…
you know, like normal.
End goal is to make humans idiots at computing so all they know is bezosnet with an ai slopbot to ask what you want. Very idiocracy style.
Then us nerds are the minority and there won’t be a market for hardware so it will be dissolved. I give this 10 years.
Hell, we are already the minority. 99% of humans use a phone as a computer and store everything in centralized cloud services. I don’t know 1 person who stores stuff on their hard drive anymore (if they know what a hard drive is, its a miracle).
I don’t know (people) who store stuff on a HD anymore
Yeah I’m finding this too, people just opting to save in a cloud.
I do some stuff on iPad or iPhone like the payments, I think their ecosystem is probably the pick for that and I’m degoogling that as well. All that is sent to my PC though, and the records stored in my hard drives.
I use clouds as little as possible and anything that automatically sent to one, if it is, is on my hard drives as well.
Dropbox continually asks me to update my storage. I just don’t use it any more.
outlawing linux
Yes. Some countries and states have proposed laws for age verification that would make Linux illegal.
I think they make cloud gaming very cheap, so that at one point you just rent a system and can play all the AAA titles with Ultra graphics for like 20€ a month, so it’s not worth it anymore for the common gamer to invest into PC components. Then after they got you locked in the service will drastically enshittify. This in combination with locked up OSes due to all the age verification and think of the children surveillance. I am not saying it is likely to happen in the next 5 years, but at one day maybe? I mean the children nowadays are growing up with IPads and stuff, if they want to game they buy a console or a steam machine. When I was a kid it would have never been possible for me to afford a PC for gaming at these prices.
This is what happened to music and tv/cinema. Now that nobody has mp3 players or blu-ray collections, they force you to subscribe and STILL shove ads down your throat.
That’s already been tried though (google stadia) and it was a massive flop. There are limitations around latency that are hard physics based ones which wont be easily solved.
So Google Stadia 2.0, this time without a decent, unfixable controller with shit battery life but also one of the best D-pads known to man?
There’s a temporary price spike in some components atm yes, but that will end when the AI bubble pops.
Just like temporary gas price hikes… right? Right? Riight?
They already ban the import of some components. Apple is asking for special permission to buy from a banned manufacturer. This won’t hurt big tech, only the consumers.
They don’t have to ban imports, just control WHO can import. And as long as those companies are jnder their thumb, they can control which consumers can have what.
On the damage side. Personal purchases of components pales in comparison to commercial. So they could live with damage to the personal sector. And of course it will make a whole new way for the to extract profit via yet another middle man.The AI bubble isn’t going to burst like you think. If it does, sure, component prices may fall, but most of us won’t have jobs anyways so we still won’t be able to afford them.
