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If something isn’t worth waiting just a bit of time to torrent it, as opposed to just instantly streaming it?

Good rule of thumb: It’s slop, you don’t actually care for it, it’s just white noise.

I can’t hear you over my 10TB storage disk of movies.

I guess I’m a unicorn in that Netflix or equal has no draw for me. I’m not a movie watcher. I’m more interested in how they made it vs the actual movie content itself. I don’t even watch TV of any kind. I have no Spotify or equal, music streaming platform. I just can’t take the incessant ads every couple songs, and it’s the same flipping ad over and over. Instead, I listen to my music collection which is fairly large, most of it from my days of running a licensed internet radio station back in the pre-Napster days, and read. Not much into fiction or novels etc. Give me history, news, anything to do with computers, etc. I mean, the internet is a vast repository of data, and I have yet to surf to the end of it. At no other time in human history have we had the sum total of the world’s knowledge, maybe not wisdom, but knowledge, resting in the palm of our hand or sitting on a desktop. The great libraries of Alexandria would look like my magazine rack in comparison. I just find that reading helps me digest the information better, and in the case of news, it allows me to cross reference, highlight, search, compare ad nauseam, in search of the truth trifecta, which you’ll never get on your TV screen.

The only streaming services that make sense to me are the niche ones that focus on original content.

Wrestling streaming services like njpw world, trillerTV, or wrestle universe, specialised libraries like Shudder.

Generalised shit for mainstream content is not worth the money.

The price of ownership is maintenance.

Prices keep rising because people will pay ANY price to avoid personal responsibility.

They’re going up again?

I dropped all of those. I just have a couple services now.

CBC Gem (mostly to support CanCon and local media), one streamer, and I migrated to Qobuz for music.

I’m the spring I’ll go to yard sales for dvds/blu rays. They’re like a dollar there, which is reasonable.

A ton of content I liked is now owned by fascists and Larry Ellison, so I don’t even want to buy new media anymore.

I’m probably going to be allowing most of my streaming subscriptions to lapse over the next year or two. Gonna stick with Dropout and PBS, but that might be all.

Thanks for reminding me. I still have shows I need to download.