“max users planing on switching to piracy” is a better headline.
The only inconvenience this is causing me is pricing out additional storage for my NAS. I know I may not be the majority here, and I may not be the target audience these tactics are focused on, but for me, these companies aren’t getting my money this way. Microcenter is.
Microcenter for everything but drives, use server part deals for user drives
Holy hell there are some great deals on that website! Thanks for the rec, I wouldn’t have believed it was real if I just stumbled upon it.
Yeah, I have 6 14tb drives from them.
Max is a fucking dump. Got the 50% half off price in Denmark when they released HBO Max. Then max is released, and my subscription was changed to full HD, when I had 4K. No worries, my TV is 1080p only anyway (it’s old, top of the line 2012 model, no HDR or anything fancy, but I’m cheap, so I’ll get a new one when it breaks , hopefully tomorrow lol), so I kept the subscription.
Last month, I got an ad on a single Rock and Morty episode. Last weekend, I got ads on everything. Cancelled straight away. Anything on Max, Prime or Disney somehow ust magically appears on my Plex when I add the movie/series on the watchlist.
Plex FTW
My tv and eating habits since 2020 have only been getting better by these changes. Once every streaming service no longer allows password sharing we will be done with TV. So many of their platforms are incredibly awful to navigate anyways.
What kind of setup do you guys use to sail the high seas?
Arrrr suite feeding jellyfin.
What’s Arrrr suite specifically?
https://github.com/Ravencentric/awesome-arr
I don’t know this actual setup but the documentation seems good at explaining it.
A seedbox at Bytesized Hosting
I don’t know the name of the practice. But I already do the buy for just 1 month thing when they’ve got something I really wanna watch.
Right now I’m waiting for Bleach to finish so I can get a month of Hulu so I can watch that and the new Futurama.
They don’t deserve a concurrent monthly payment. And I’m happy as hell to deny one to them.
The term is subscription hopping.
Also called churning.
I thought that was exploiting credit card/savings account rewards by bouncing from card to card, as in /r/churning.
Both can be true.
Thank you Sir or Madam.
Yeah but they now got you working OT managing your subs… I am not willing to do that.
I am.
