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It's everything I can do to police the subscriptions that my wife and children think we should have. How you people don't have subscription fatigue I'll never k
by NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
It's everything I can do to police the subscriptions that my wife and children think we should have. How you people don't have subscription fatigue I'll never know... it's like having debt standing over your head, but even with a thousand year mortgage I would make some progress in paying it off. Subscriptions? It's there forever. Even worse, sometimes the payment goes up.
There is no convenience in subscriptions, just some sort of pathology akin to recreational heroin, where it lulls you into a narcotic coma, death just waiting a few years down the road.
> And there was a brief period in the 2010s where I could almost say that about movies.
There was never any such time. There was a time when Netflix had a catalog of a few thousand movies. My Plex server has 6700, and I'm not even hardcore. I estimate that were I to get every new release, and work backwards through previous years to 1995 or so, I'd need storage for at least 30,000 movies just for English language titles. Television is an order of magnitude larger still, and that's if I stay away from reality tv shows. Organizing these would become a burden... if lumped all into the same library, a person might have trouble paging through all the movies that started with S just to find what they were looking for (already started to become an issue at about 5000). I'll need to start saving up for the two synology expansion bays that my nas supports.
- glitchc 2y agoMost definitely with you on feeling the fatigue. Whenever my family asks for a new subscription, my response is to ask which one to cut to make room.
- MattPalmer1086 2y agoWe just cancelled all our streaming services - there's just too many and most of them we don't watch for months at a time. The deal for us now is, if there's something we want to watch, we will enable that service for a month or two, then cancel it. So only one at a time, and often none. We haven't noticed any loss of entertainment. We have a plex server with loads of great stuff on it, and satellite TV (Freeview) for general TV watching.
- philjohn 2y agoAlso avoids the "Hmmm, I can't think of something more interesting or productive to do, let's scroll through $streaming_service and find something that might interest me"
- int_19h 2y agoIf you even have a Plex server, you're already a small minority.
- ecocentrik 2y agoI think most people limit the number of subscription services they have active at any time. You can usually subscribe to a new streaming service in under a minute if you absolutely must watch something you're not currently subscribed to.