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I was about to comment this! I learned about that app from a few Lemmy users recommending it, and it’s the real deal. Podcasts still generally have ads inserted in (which you can fast forward through), BUT I learned that you can set rules for your subscriptions which apply to each episode, like “skip the first 45s of each episode”. Go to subscriptions, tap the settings gear wheel, and find auto skip!
I haven’t tried it myself, but a friend used LMMS for a bit and put together some pretty good sounding songs. He just couldn’t get vocal recording to sound good so he lost interest, but that’s probably more on him than any software issues. Idk what the sample situation is with LMMS, but if you weren’t aware of it, I’d say that’s worth looking into.
I’ve started playing around with Reaper (I used Audacity for a very long time) and it seems to be a really good DAW. If you find samples in .wav format, it would be very easy to import those and adjust them however you need. I’m far from fluent in Reaper though so I’m sorry to say I can’t offer much help in navigating it.
I also am very interested in an answer to this question. I like making music as a hobby so I really don’t give a shit about permissions since I’m not selling anything.
Nope, valid answer! Piracy isn’t about theft, it’s about sharing. Many people pay good money for equipment to be able to share content that they paid for. Nobody gets mad about people visiting friends to watch a movie that only one friend paid for, so most piracy is basically just that but with many friends and without having to visit. Buying an antenna is the original jellyfin server, but on somebody else’s schedule, so live sports is the perfect application of this. If I watched sports more regularly at home, I’d absolutely buy an antenna. I’m tired after 3 12-hour shifts (including today) plus my wife is at work, so I don’t feel like going out to a sports bar this time. Which is also a valid way to share this content!
I got into this for hockey streams. Sometimes, especially for high traffic events (like the super bowl), streams get pretty rough for me.
Another source that’s mostly for soccer streams (if anybody here could benefit from this into) could be found just by googling the words foot and bite, but replace the space between those words with the letter Y. Very handy to be able to find for in the background or on breaks while at work, especially around the world cup.
I think that still makes sense. Sometimes it feels like stuff like streaming and amazon orders have reduced our need to leave our homes. In general, this is largely a good thing, but I fear that people are becoming a little too isolated and aren’t being exposed to social interactions nearly as much. I don’t think people know how to respectfully disagree anymore, and I think that might lead to higher tension and make socializing even harder on people. I’m only 35, but it really does feel like most kids are having a more passive childhood than I remember having, and many adults today also live passively while feeling nostalgic for their more actively lived childhood. I don’t think people are particularly happy with life being this efficient and convenient.
So yeah, go out and get a movie and some Chinese food. Have a conversation with a stranger. I bet you’ll enjoy that more than doordash and scrolling through netflix.
I fondly recall excitedly using Netflix on my PS3 all the fucking time in like 2011. It was cheap, there was an app right there on the device I already bought, and there was a pretty good selection of content that got updated frequently enough. I had friends who would pirate and I was interested in getting into that until Netflix came along and completely fulfilled the need for me. The incredible convenience made it worth it over the work to learn how to pirate and the time to safely find everything and the risk of getting caught, and then even after doing all of that it would be on a computer and not just a couple of button presses from my couch. I know piracy has gotten to a point now where it’s much more convenient, but back then it was a totally different beast. All of this was. YouTube was so much better for users and for certain classes of creators. Media and media platforms across the board are fucking terrible compared to back then. We used to chastise people for still having cable because Netflix was so fucking incredible in comparison. Idk what comes next, but these streaming companies are on the way out if they don’t figure it the fuck out. At this point, I’d rather go backwards to go to a goddamn Blockbuster these days.
Your local library probably has a better selection of movies and TV for free than any streaming service you might consider paying for. Let’s starve these beasts.
I have two possible solutions then, each with their own drawback.
Solution 1 is to nationalize media. The closest realistic thing is something we already have: libraries. The drawback is that content is massively limited and it’s pretty inconvenient, but the cost is bundled in with other nationalized services like firefighters and the postal service.
Solution 2 is piracy. The drawback is that it’s illegal and you risk prison time and huge fines, but the cost is either free or relatively cheap in exchange for less chance of getting caught, and the selection of content is damn near everything. There is quite a bit of work at the onset, but it is reasonably convenient to enjoy.
There’s an alternative. Because of exclusivity deals, you think a monopoly would be good for users, but with a monopoly then the company could charge $200/month because customers literally have nowhere else to go. A better system would be significantly reduced exclusivity so that 1st party media is the only exclusive content. This way, there would be more than 1 or 2 options, but way fewer than what we currently have, and the 5 or so companies remaining would compete based on their own original content, customer service, quality of service, and UI. Streaming apps with only one or two interesting pieces of original content could license out to all of the remaining few streamers and shut down their dead app. I know the quality dropped like a fucking rock, but a few years back people were excited to be subscribed to Disney+ for Wandavision and The Mandalorian. 5 years ago, people were excited to be subscribed to Netflix for Stranger Things and Orange is the New Black.
I was frustrated af a few nights ago trying to find X-Men First Class. Days of Future Past is on Max. X-Men, X-Men: The Last Stand, the 3 Wolverine movies, X-Men Apocalypse, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix are all on Disney+. So where the fuck are X-Men 2 and X-Men: First Class?! To watch the X-Men movies (which are all from the same studios), paying for 2 streaming services isn’t enough?!
But if we assume a movie that made a billion dollars, and assume a high ticket price like $20, then that’s 50 million tickets sold. That math only checks out if each person paid $0.01 per worker. If we cut out useless executives, that number goes way the fuck down. So yes, let’s pay artists directly, and we’ll save money at the same time. Even if it were a tenth of a penny to each credit per viewer, that’s $50k on average, which is higher than the actual average wage for crew.. I know actors and directors make more, but that’s why I’m not going so far as to say we should only pay $2 for a ticket.
Honestly, this assumes that the content is even worth that. The older I get, the more conscious I am that my time left is constantly shrinking. Do I really wanna spend 3 hours watching a shitty movie? Do I really wanna spend 6-12 hours watching a shitty season of a shitty show? Nah, I’d rather enjoy an active activity than passively pass the time. I’ll pay a little for the little amount of content I care about at a time to be presented in a convenient way. I’m probably not gonna pirate until they make it impossible to cycle between services, and I’m sure that’s coming within a few years. Get ready for 2 year contracts for Netflix, $8/month (“for the first 6 months” in tiny print).
Let’s assume that this hypothetical movie had 2,000 people working on it, which isn’t a crazy number to assume. You think people should pay $2,000 to watch a movie?
Agreed. I’m just kinda surprised that I’m cool with something that sounds so terrible on paper. Ultimately, if it does become the norm, I’d expect another renaissance of indie titles, but probably PC only at first at least. If the only way to play games becomes subscription bundles which would obviously come with a paywall for devs to get access to customers, it gatekeeps smaller devs out. Until these same execs see that lost revenue and create an indie tier subscription with fewer hurdles to get your game in it, so that’s totally gonna be like 80% shovelware.
So basically, it’s pretty okay right now but it’s gonna be a bloated, greedy, saturated shitshow soon just like streaming services are. Wonderful.
As a 35 year old guy with a full time career and a wife, my gaming time is pretty limited. I no longer want a game to be 100 hours long because that will take me like a year to get through. I want other things. So for me, subscription gaming weirdly makes sense. I’ve heard the xbox version is great but I’m doing the playstation one. I’ve tried a bunch of older games that I didn’t get around to when they were newer like Celeste and AC black flag. I’ve tried some newer ones here and there too. For the cost of like 2 new games per year, I’m trying like 30, and I don’t feel the pressure of “I paid $60 on this” to make myself finish a game if I’m not that interested. I got like 2/3 through Ghost of Tsushima and then realized that I wasn’t really having fun anymore so I just stopped and moved on to another game. I’m not playing the most current shit, and not a whole lot of AAA stuff, but other than Spider-Man 2 idk if I’m really missing out on anything. Especially because every game ships broken as fuck and takes a few months and an open letter apology to be worth a damn anyway.
Not defending corporate greed at all here, I’m just saying that right now, for me, at current price and service, I fucks with it. I’m sure it isn’t such a good value for people who play all the time and are constantly just waiting for new games to come onto the catalog, but I’m more worried about games not being there long enough for me to get my fill lol.
Idk everybody’s situation, but I just listen like this and manually skip ads. My car has buttons on the steering wheel for forward and backward (if I skip back into the podcast). My earbuds skip forward and backward with double presses on the right and left earbud respectively. Listening otherwise, it’s not that hard for me to grab my phone and skip through a few minutes of ads. Would it be better if it were automatic? Sure. But I’m much more annoyed by YouTube ads popping up every 3-7 minutes.
Am I the only one who can’t get piped links to work for longer than like 30 seconds? They usually don’t even play for me, but this video played for a few seconds before crashing and giving me error code 3004. Just curious if I’m missing something supremely basic. YouTube ads have become so goddamn intrusive that I’m not fucking with them, and ublock keeps getting outsmarted. I miss the old days of a short ad every ten minutes or so of content. I’m not putting up with multiple ads for this fucking 4 minute video.
The deck has made me highly interested in building a desktop for the first time in a long time, running Chimera OS. I didn’t realize something like the deck was possible, and I’d just dock it if it were more powerful, but it doesn’t need to be more powerful as a handheld. I’d love a high end gaming PC that is able to park in the living room and function just fine with my dualsense controller. Prices have mostly come down, so I’ve window shopped a solid build for about $1200, but the GPU alone would’ve been about that much until pretty recently.
I’m also interested in this. I’ve seen that used mini PCs can be found for under $100, which is still pretty pricey for this need imo, but I’m sure it’s a good choice for setting up a Jellyfin server and maybe some general home management type stuff like security cameras or smart lights or something. If you already have a PC, you might be better off using that to grab media and then throw it onto a drive that you can connect to the USB of your TV if it has one. Alternatively, maybe run a long HDMI from PC to TV? Or maybe something like a Steam Link could get that done? Combine that with a phone app to control your PC from another room and you’re in business. It really depends on the volume you’re looking to watch though because that would be a headache to do more than just a few times per week. I wish I could be more helpful to you, but I’m just some spitballing idiot who also doesn’t know until somebody with more experience chimes in lol.
I myself am flirting with the idea of building a gaming desktop that could fill this role as well as serve as a modern Steam Machine running Chimera OS. I bought a used Steam Deck a while back and fell in love with the UX, but while it’s amazing for a handheld it’s a little underpowered for gaming at home. I have built a few Windows PCs about ten years ago, but any nuggets of wisdom regarding differences today, Linux tips, etc would be greatly appreciated. I’ve done a bit of homework, but people on Lemmy seem to be super knowledgeable about this kind of thing.
Nah, they launched at a crazy low price and were putting shit on there way too soon after theatrical release. I’m sure I’m not the only one who wondered why the fuck I’d pay $20 for 2 movie tickets to movies that are getting shittier when they’ll be coming into my home like a month later with subtitles and pause functionality. Their goal from the start was to have a huge userbase at the start and establish themselves as a perceived “need” before ramping up price. I’m surprised it took this long.
I was sharing Netflix with a friend. When they moved forward with price increases, pushed to stop password sharing, and were found to be looking at introducing ads, I told him I’m not helping pay anymore and it’s up to him whether he wants to cancel. Idk or care whether he stuck around and decided it’s worth paying more than double what he had been paying. But withholding your share of the cost might convince your family. If it’s your account being shared, just cancel it and tell them to launch their own account.
Beat me to it. My only issue with it (and I’m sure every stream has this issue) is that big matches like World Cup freeze frequently. I’ve had surprisingly few such gripes during these women’s World Cup matches, but so far I’ve only watched a few group stage matches. Semis and finals will almost certainly have issues.
It’s a gamble because they don’t list games until streams are broadcasting, but I have a probable source for you. Pull up a browser. Type into the URL the word foot and then the letter y and then the word bite. Next type a period, and then the letter c twice. Hit enter. Hopefully spelling it out this way keeps it from getting ruined.
Using a laptop connected to a TV via HDMI works pretty well, but be ready to refresh or choose a different link once or twice per half if there’s a lot of web traffic.