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I am a digital hoarder. yt-dlp is a godsend.

• anononaut 3y ago
  Interesting call out. I wonder what the parallels are.
  • JuanPosadas 3y ago
    We grew up in an era where seemingly any TV show you wanted was on VHS, DVD, or netflix. Hard drives get cheaper every year. Now media only appears on streaming services and are silently removed from streaming services, and there are 10+ random services to subscribe to. The streaming services are all increasing their prices. The rest of economy is also inflating at the same time. For some people rent doubled while food only went up 20%. They may have spent $40/ month on various streaming services, but now the same streaming quality of life from streaming services may be $80 while their personal finance budget for streaming services was reduced by $1000 when everything else inflated. The marginal utility of a 8TB+ hard drive for flex/jellyfin and any VPN essentially doubled, and may continue to double several times if inflation and streaming scarcity continue to increase. Some people may experience this as the digital great depression. I think other factors in the digital world may also cause this feeling.