Lka1988

Yes. But unfortunately, kids have wildly varying tastes and I just can’t keep up with the limited space (8TB) on my NAS.

Thanks for the tip. It’s per-profile, too, so if you have multiple profiles (family), you have to go into each profile and turn it off.

That’s my take. I subscribe to the whole “piracy is a convenience issue” mindset. If you’re gonna make me pay for 12 different subscriptions just so I can have access to a few decent shows, I’m cancelling everything and just pirating it. Fucking greedy-ass companies are never happy until they get all the revenue.

No clue what us3n3t is, but Usenet is doing great.

The profit metric they look at isn’t profit itself, but actually year-over-year profit increases.

That’s the imaginary money line that tells shareholders and execs how much the actual money line has gone up since last year. When a big company says they’re operating “in the red”, they’re still making ungodly amounts of profit - just not as much as last year.

Find better sources. If you’re not seeing something you want in the places you know about, put in more effort. You’re not gonna find shit from a google search.

As for myself, I hopped on Usenet and ditched torrents almost entirely. Far better selection of pretty much everything.

This is more like “I bought the DVD and want to back it up”, which is a legitimate strategy.

hShop? That’s still very much a thing. I put it on my kids’ 3DSXL consoles.

We don’t deserve Weird Al

My minivan has a roof-mounted DVD player with inputs, so I built a mini media center out of a Pi3 and Flirc IR receiver, running OSMC. Got a Toyota boot screen and everything.

Kodi these days is essentially a real-debrid frontend (which might be what you’re looking for if you want integral torrent downloads!). The normal streaming apps for Kodi are not maintained even PlexJellyfin don’t work out of the box.

XBMC has fallen quite far from where it originally started.

I blame sketchy entities reselling Raspberry Pi/Android TV/etc boxes loaded with Kodi and all the pirating plugins to the moronic general public.

That makes sense to an extent, but sounds like it leaves a big, unorganized mess in the downloads folder.

Right, but the media management software (*arr stack, in my case) already knows what it has and won’t call to the downloader for duplicates unless manually triggered to do so. It just seems like an overcomplication to have hardlinks in multiple directories when you really only need the relevant files to be in the media directories…

I might be overthinking this.

I never fully understood this concept. Why would I want my media files to remain in the “downloads” folder? It makes way more sense to move them to their appropriate “media” directories so their associated library software can see and properly catalog them.

Obligatory “they stole the music for that clip”

It always reminded me of the Batman: Beyond intro music.

I’ve been subject to MSO for decades. LibreOffice was a welcome change.

That’s fair.

And I do use the SD slot, with a dozen GB of MP3. Anything fancier does not make much sense in a car.

I guess my American is showing here, but, do you not want a better stereo in what is arguably one of your most expensive purchases? Your Skoda is just a VW Polo under the skin, and lots of aftermarket headunits are available. I’ve replaced the headunit in most of my vehicles over the years. Worth it every time, plus it’s one of the easier ways to modernize an older vehicle (even my 2008 Toyota Sienna got a new headunit).

Oh no!

Anyway…

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