Bittorrule

Uh idk where you got that but in the us market 7.99 gets you standard with ads, the 4k tier is 25 dollars a month.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926/us

Is Netflix 4k bitrate of comparable quality to uh, say a ripped bluray?

Does that Netflix sub have ads?

Genuine questions, I don’t know.

You could also try to factor in the uh, cost of internet and datacaps and all that.

Could probably save some money in the long run, though thats gonna vary a lot by location and use case and I guess income/wealth situation, household size, all that.

I’ll show you how hard my drives are.

Mine is literally that, an HP Z600 from 2006. It needs new RAM and probably a processor upgrade, but it’s working pretty well for now, so I’ll get to it “eventually”

As all should have

Idk what that is. Just yaRrr, watch, then delete.

How many harddrive do y’all have? Too much file management break my brain.

You don’t even need to remember to disconnect machines you can have a 100 different clients(is that the right word?) on a tailnet. Honestly it’s so sick and amazing it’s free

The real question is:

How do people have so much media to fill up those drives?

Followed by: how do people have so much time to watch that media?

Followed by: human driven climate change is real. How can people waste energy just to hoard media that they rarely ever see again?

I understand somehow if you are torrenting and contributing to the sharing ecosystem, but just hoarding?

BluRays are obviously better. I was just saying that not subscribing to Netflix is America will save a lot more than not subscribing in India. But the storage cost is very similar.

No, that sub does not have ads. There is, however a mobile only, 480p, subscription too, for less than 3 USD.

India has cheaper subscriptions. The lowest tier, 480p is 170 INR, which is about 3 USD.

You don’t even need to get new drives to begin, just use what you probably already have lying around, old external hard drives. Use a RAID and swap drives as they fail.

afaik (and I might be super wrong) you can have up to 100 machines IN the network, but only 3 connected at any given time in the free plan.

But yes, it’s sick and amazing either way.

Love the potrait of Linus Torvalds behind Xenia

If you’re in india then my understanding is that IPTV is the most cost effective option by a large margin. I"ve never lived there but my family is scattered between Bangladesh and india and they all use IPTVs.

but I guess to answer your original question: regional pricing

Stream and cream?

Q1: They have a knowledge of how to use BitTorrent, or Usenet or somesuch, without being caught.

Q2: They don’t, the point of a library is having things in case you want or need them, or maybe somebody else does.

Q3: I guarantee you it takes less energy and carbon to set up and operate a relatively small local library than it does to operate a giant realtime global streaming enterprise, by probably multiple orders of magnitude.

Fuck, I could do this with a SteamDeck, external drives or something, and run it all on a home solar power / battery system you can get off the shelf.

Have you ever seen, like physically seen, a massive datacenter the size of an auto manufacturing planr, a high rise building that is 50% server racks by floor?

Just how many racks there, how much water and energy is used?

Also: You’re arguing here that feeding evil megacorps is somehow better for the environment, than starving them?

Really?

Nope, free allows for up to 3 users and 100 connected devices. And if you run it on your router, the entire network only counts as one device. So for instance, you and two of your friends could all join the same tailnet. Their business model is basically the same as WinRAR’s; give it to individual users for free, to get people on board. Then charge corporations to use it at scale, since the individual users already know how to use it.

The only reason I don’t personally use it is because my work WiFi blocks outgoing WireGuard connections. And that’s Tailscale’s biggest weakness in my experience; They tout themselves as a zero-config VPN, but that means you’re not able to config things if you need to. If I were able to flip over to OpenVPN or IKEv2/IPSec instead of WireGuard, I’d be fine. But Tailscale doesn’t have the ability to do that, because it would require configuration.

If you’re only using it for yourself then there are a lot worse things that people do (like downloading apps for websites, using untrusted VPNs, or even just using the web)

Reverse proxy is more advanced and I think someone who needs it wouldn’t be worried about ease of use.

Just don’t talk about the part where we spend ~$1000 on acquiring 20TB of HDD