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I've mostly given up on thrift. We have Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, HBO ("Max") (shared with friends), Youtube Premium, and Amazon Prime. In the past I've also used
by delecti 3y ago
I've mostly given up on thrift. We have Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, HBO ("Max") (shared with friends), Youtube Premium, and Amazon Prime. In the past I've also used Plex a bit, but I make enough money that it's just not worth the effort to maintain when all of the above apps stream so seamlessly through our Chromecast.
- chrismeller 3y agoThis has ended up being my approach as well. Yes, I object to spending $20/m on the surface, but it ends up being far less than the time I'd spend trying to do it all myself. It also lets my wife pick whatever ridiculous show she wants to watch without me being the gatekeeper who has to get it for her.
- chrbr 3y agoYep, when I realized I was going deep down the money rabbit-hole of fine-tuning my homelab to grab and serve this stuff is when I just switched back to streaming. Monetarily it'll probably be a wash in the long run for me.
- Firmwarrior 3y agoI wish I could take this approach.. wife's from a foreign country and wants to watch programming from home and local stuff with subtitles, which is basically completely unsupported on all these fucking DRM services I end up having to pay for like 6 services across two countries and run a VPN server to be able to watch them