• https://emby.media/
• https://sonarr.tv/
• https://radarr.video/
• https://prowlarr.com/
• https://github.com/kineticman/FastChannels

Note to self: Hi self, you're awesome! Thanks for not spending all my money on streaming services that treat you like shit, and keep raising prices. I shall continue to not buying peacock.....or hulu.....or netflix.

"No commercials version, $3 extra......may contain commercials."

Fuck the core concept of that.

Pirate everything

I was on an airplane the other day, the ticket advertised free wifi, but in reality you have to watch ads to unlock minutes.

Edit: should also add the whole time we were delayed it showed ads that can’t be turned off, then when you take off it has a 4 minute unskippable (and undimmable) ad, then they put ads on the little airplane progress screen.

Worst flying experience of my life.

And they just raised their subscription price. 😆

I noticed this on a relative's YouTubeTV, that when I paused to read the screen, it threw garbage up on the screen over the text. "Mildly infuriating" is right!

Which airline was this?

/uninstall & cancel

I remember watching TV a while ago. I think it was paramount?. But for every 5 minutes of movie they played 10 minutes of commercials. It was the most infuriating thing I ever saw. Abandoned the movie after 30 minutes.

This seems more than mildly infuriating

Good list but https://jellyfin.org/

yeah I need to know who's doing this fuckery so I can avoid it

I’ve never once had a commercial on Jellyfin.

Jellyfin

Also your local public library has a lot of stuff

Well they need to pay their teams of engineers dedicated to adding ads everywhere, that ain't cheap!

If this had been posted 2 months ago, I'd say "hopefully it's Spirit or Frontier". Because I avoid those airlines anyways.

But seeing as it's being posted now, I'd say we can rule our Spirit.

Hopefully it was Frontier. Because I refuse to fly that airline at all. Though, I think we can rule them out too. They're too cheap for screens in the seats.

spirit's a ghost airline now :D

I'll take "How did this television get a bullet hole in it?" for 300

Got an ipTV box earlier this year and immediately cancelled everything. Saving hundreds of dollars. I strongly recommend finding someone to hook you up.

Arrrrrr

I put some classics on mine like the one with 'what are you sinking about?'

Wtf is this a tv thing or a youtubeTV thing? Or 3rd party YouTube app?

I wanted to use jellyfin, but it's not quite there yet.

That said emby's live streaming of FAST streams is so bad that I keep a channels subscription active just to use as a buffer.

You can put your phone in airplane mode even if you don't have a flight. I've tried; it works! I tell my phone when it's time to get notifications. The elation is indescribable.

Also scheduled summary and ruthlessly culling notification permissions. The minute an app disrespects my attention and time, their permissions get revoked.

Here's what you missed! Don't forget to log in!

Yeah nah

It's real cool flying with a toddler that I'm desperately trying to keep away from screens only to have them be forcibly mesmerized by bullshit on screens that can't be shut off.

Tell us what airline so we know which to avoid.

That sounds fucking atrocious. Flying can already be stressful, and I usually just try to relax and chill for the whole flight. It's one thing if a nearby passenger is being annoying. It can make a five hour flight seem like an eternity. Even worse for longer flights.

But to be forced by the airline to watch ads on the screen? Fuck that. I always turn my screen off. I don't want that in my face.

In what way is it not there yet?

Icelandair

Damn, I flew with them once well over a decade ago. I had a good impression of them at the time, but I guess that was before capitalism reached its "late-stage".

That sucks, man...

My wife wanted to watch Obession this weekend, which is streaming on Peacock. That was the first time I've watched anything on there in at least a year. What a garbage ass service. Like 3 minutes of ads before the movie starts. Then ads on the pause screen.

🏴‍☠️🦜⚓🪎

Friends don't let friends subscribe. If you're 20 something know this... We fought our way out of bunny antenna TV and cable shows. We left that for freedom to choose to watch anything we could find on the net. Dvx. But tv followed us. Its here trying to reclaim its "lost revenue".

Cancel, don't subscribe! Fight for your right!

The UX is a mess. Small example: if you try to manually identify a movie against a db, it will give you a list of matches with cover thumbnails and the first 10 characters of the name. So you click one to see if it's the right match, and it shows you exactly the same information, but in a modal prompting if you want to apply this (you can only nuke metadata, not merge or select values you want). If you're still unsure and want to see the others, you can click back (in the modal), which makes Jellyfin panic and bring you all the way back to the movie page, your API/DB search wasted and needing to be run again, i.e. starting over from scratch.

Yo, ho. Haul together. Hoist the colours high.

jellyfin doesn’t. and your shows never go to another streamer. oh and you can watch them when the internet goes out. oh and they don’t track your watching habits.

why are you watching paramount netflix hulu peacock again?

Isn't it funny, when you visit a relative or friend and see their TV and web browser experience is full of ads and shit, while at home you see no ads and sometimes forget they even exist? I've noticed this many times.

Don't do that in Germany. Your ISP will report you.

Isn't Jellyfin something you have to run on your own server? It's not comparable to normal streaming services in any shape or form.

That's the point..

It's very comparable to "normal streaming services", just better in every way imaginable, provided you set up the backend with supporting services

In my experience, Jellyfin is far superior to Emby and Plex.

And with Seerr it's better than all the streaming services combined

Yep. Except in podcasts. They can't be avoided there in any other way than hammering the forward button. F-ing nuisance.

Discovering the next track button on my steering wheel does a +30sec instead of skip track was a game changer lol

Stremio 👍

There are so many ways.

Or just don’t watch. Many of those mass produced shows doesn’t have a single positive contribution apart from stealing people’s time anyway.

peacock came about during mid pandemic, trying to lure in people with old shows like house, and hosting SVU. it kinda fell off once the other streams took over.

same.