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With the simultaneous rollout of restrictions on account sharing and price increases/addition of advertising, I’m cutting back severely on streaming services.

I allowed my streaming subscriptions to grow without thinking about it. Without trying to remember the constant merging and bundling, I was subscribed to probably a dozen services at one point. They ranged from Netflix and HBO and Hulu to Shudder and Showtime. I had Paramount, Criterion, Disney, Peacock, and others. I’d do the typical thing where I’d search for a movie, find it is exclusive to a platform, and grab the free trial and forget to cancel. I excused it if I found a movie even every couple of months on it. There were still nights where it’d take an hour to find something I wanted to watch. I was probably closing in on $200/month all told, and I don’t have sports subscriptions.

I’m interested in learning what other people are doing regarding the price hikes and service compromises. Are you cancelling? Are you taking advantage of bundles with your internet services? Are you rotating on some interval? Or are you not changing at all?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a guide for this? I have Plex with Plex Pass but I haven't been able to figure out how to get media beyond manually RDPing to my server and downloading a torrent from a private tracker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I built it up over months.

The simplest setup though I copied from Spaceinvador One on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just did this a month ago on my Synology NAS following this guy's guides:

https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/

It's done via GUI on Synology's OS so the process is different (ie longer, more tedious) than just using Docker compose on Linux.

I'm using Overseerr plus the other *rr apps for ppl to request movies and shows via a self-hosted website, and Requestrr so friends can also request via a Discord bot