https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/comments/1ddk1h1/real_af/

  • Tripbin [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    eh just give me the torrent over a poor quality stream of a torrent any day.

  • AlicePraxis [any]
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    3 months ago

    me except on the right it's torrentgalaxy, 1337x, Plex and a VPN

    • AlicePraxis [any]
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      3 months ago

      maybe I'm old school but I'll just torrent manually and then stream it, I figure a lot of movies won't have fast enough seeders to stream in realtime

      I use Plex which has become kinda shitty though so I might have to look into stremio

      • featured [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        Using a debrid service like real debrid is pretty much paying a small fee for access to somebody else’s server that downloads everything from torrent trackers. So even if nobody is seeding, if it shows up on the service it will stream

        Also if you still want to locally download media and stream it but Plex is missing the mark, you should try Jellyfin. It’s a similar service but open source and well maintained

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        I do that with things I find myself rewatching often, like more than once a year. For other shows I might not watch again, I don't bother with using the disk space for them. I've looked into plex, but I'm too lazy to run a server myself.

        • AlicePraxis [any]
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          3 months ago

          yeah I usually delete TV shows after watching, that shit takes up way too much space. movies I keep anything I like and might conceivably watch again, especially if it's more obscure

    • Mog_Pharou [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      It's actually insane how good it is. If you told me it was sorcery I wouldn't argue. Just HOW!?!?

        • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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          3 months ago

          HOLY MOLY, how could it be THAT easy? Less than 5 minutes of seamless setups and I'm COOKING! It even got subtitles automatically, WHAT?

          Dude thank you so SO much.

          One thing tho, the subtitles are so small I can't read it and there's nowhere to change the size or font or color.

          nvm, I found where to change the subtitles 😞

    • lugal@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      In case you don't recognize the logos on the left: they are commercial streaming platforms. And on the right there are pirating streaming sites

    • peeonyou [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      just reading the scrawl on that homepage makes me not trust it even remotely

  • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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    3 months ago

    deluge + public trackers any day, i find subtitles to be essential so i could never bear pirate streams. usually compressed/artifacted to shit too.

    • AlicePraxis [any]
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      3 months ago

      yeah I like knowing exactly what resolution and bit rate I'm getting. especially if it's a movie where visuals are important, I don't want to watch some crappy YIFY rip or worse. and I like to keep a lot of movies on my HDD, I now have a pretty sizable library specific to my tastes, like my own private Netflix of horror trash

    • sloth [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      I've been using watchseriesstream.com but its not great, thanks for the alternative.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    There is fuckall worth watching on Netflix anyway. You're better off bingewatching Antiques Roadshow... at least you might accidentally learn something.