• @Hagels_Bagels
      8•3 years ago

      Lol, there are torrents for cracked photoshop versions which work. Adobe is fucking extortion.

  • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
    24•3 years ago

    Jokes on you, I can download a movie torrent within 10 minutes max. With much better quality than Netflix.

        • @not_a_cop@lemmy.ml
          7•3 years ago

          avoid tpb. use something like 1337x and rarbg. Awesome-piracy is a list of websites considered good for piracy. it’s on github and written by mod of r/piracy(reddit)

            • ghost_laptopM
              4•3 years ago

              AFAIK the only reasons why I wouldn’t use TPB is because it is more likely there to be viruses since uploads are not curated and they used to have a cryptocurrency miner.

                • ghost_laptopM
                  2•3 years ago

                  I think you could experience some virus in a film or music, but I agree it will be more rare. Still I use them, too.

    • @Hagels_Bagels
      4•3 years ago

      They charge extra just for High Definition and that takes the piss.

    • riccardo
      16•3 years ago

      This hypothetical situation will haunt me for the rest of my life. I already can’t watch Netflix because I don’t own a smart TV and my phone doesn’t pass SafetyNet so Netflix refuses to open. In this situation I would whip out some of my external drives and we would have to pick one of the movies I’ve already downloaded from a csv file, and hopefully one that is not h265 encoded otherwise my laptop would stutter all the time. Oh my god I feel extremely uncomfortable if I think about this

      • Bob_Bobington
        5•3 years ago

        Raspberry Pi 4 with Kodi installed hooked into your tv. Install samba on your laptop and share movies, load this share into Kodi. Now you have open source and local Netflix, you’re welcome.

        • riccardo
          5•3 years ago

          I’ve actually used this setup for a while (but not with samba, I simply plugged my drives to an usb hub). The only issue is that my pi3 + kodi cannot play 4K movies (it would simply freeze, as far as I know the pi3 cannot play 4K files properly (was it 4K files or x265 encoded files? I don’t remember)). Another issue I’ve run into is that for some reasons, the voice track volume was always extremely low. It’s been two years now, I would like to try to set it up again and see if now it works better. Anyway at some point I decided to dismiss the whole thing and now I simply plug my laptop to the tv. I figured MPV properly plays x265 files

          • @Hagels_Bagels
            1•3 years ago

            Another issue I’ve run into is that for some reasons, the voice track volume was always extremely low.

            VLC media player (I’m assuming that this was the application you used) has the default volume set at 100%. What is not immediately apparent is that the maximum volume is in fact 200%, not 100%. Or in other words, half it’s advertised volume. I don’t know who the hell thought up the idea to implement that, but it is a very stupid one. On Android and iOS (perhaps also Windows/OSX/Linux too) you have to go into the settings to enable the full volume.

            I currently use a Raspberry Pi 3B (not plus, I think) with SAMBA on my LAN with no visible problems. I’ve never used Kodi, I just put downloaded files from torrents onto my RPi from my desktop PC.

            I don’t know if the issue is with Kodi, or if it is from a possible bottleneck from reading data from the external drives, and going through a hub. I’ve just been putting the data onto a 128GB microSD card containing the OS. The medium did cost me a fair bit back in 2018 (£28.50, almost as much as the raspberry pi itself, excluding accessories). In 2021, you can get roughly the same thing I bought in 2018 for £15, or instead, a 256GB (100MB/s) microSD card for £35 - on Amazon (don’t use that though).

            However it is still dwarfed by my Netflix bill of £5.99/month over 43 months, adding to a total of £257.57. All for something intangible that I didn’t need to use. In perspective though, my VPN subscription is €5, which I need to access torrent sites, however I’m happy paying that, even if it does add up to hundreds over years. I hope I never sink in another £5.99, especially post-“Cuties”.

            • riccardo
              3•3 years ago

              VLC media player (I’m assuming that this was the application you used)

              Nope I was talking about playing medias using Kodi - I never tried to play something on that raspberry using someting else, also because it was running on LibreELEC and I’m not sure there’s a way to use it as a desktop os

              I don’t know if the issue is with Kodi, or if it is from a possible bottleneck from reading data from the external drives, and going through a hub

              The bottleneck was most likely the hardware being not really meant to be a media server. Playing x265-encoded videos was pretty laggish, but their size is generally smaller than the same exact file but encoded in x264 (which played fine)

              In perspective though, my VPN subscription is €5, which I need to access torrent sites, however I’m happy paying that, even if it does add up to hundreds over years. I hope I never sink in another £5.99, especially post-“Cuties”

              This is an interesting perspective, I never thought about that in this way. I’m too paying a subscription to a vpn just so I can torrent behind a vpn, I’m basically paying a monthly bill to watch whatever I can torrent lol

              • ghost_laptopM
                1•3 years ago

                If you want to use a VPN only to download torrents isnt it better to pay for a Seedbox?

                • riccardo
                  4•3 years ago

                  I don’t know what a seedbox is :thinking face: I will look it up

                  My current torrent setup is a raspberry pi with qbittorrent installed and a 1TB drive where to store ongoing and completed downloads. The VPN subscriptions is 4€/month

                  Edit: one thing I love about my current setup is that I’m running a Telegram bot on the raspberry that notifies me when a torrent finishes to download, it also allows me to remotely add torrent files/magnets just by sending the file/url, and quite many other stuff. I mostly use it to keep an eye on the downloads queue since from mobile it isn’t as cumbersome as a web UI and I can use it from any device. I wonder if it would be possible to run it on a seedbox. As far as I’ve been able to see, most seedbox use Deluge as torrent client, which means I would have to rewrite it entirely to use its API. Hmmm. I will think if it’s worth the effort

    • @southerntofu@lemmy.ml
      2•3 years ago

      Your free-software Kodi addon lets Netflix execute non-free software in the form of DRM. This is unfortunately required to watch Netflix.

      I don’t have this problem when DDL/torrent-ing netflix shows :D

  • poVoq
    4•3 years ago

    It helps finding the truly good ones… cringes in forever alone mode

  • @priy@lemmy.ml
    3•3 years ago

    I got ur, we’re the same. For using YouTube, try Newpipe. For Netflix, you have torrents and telegram 😁. Even I’m into open source stuff these days and I suggest them, but very few of them car. Remember, if the person doesn’t know tech, it’s a sure denial.

    • QuentinCallaghanOP
      5•3 years ago

      Just in case anyone misunderstands, this is not written by me. It’s from 4chan.

  • LennyTheApple
    1•3 years ago

    Bro I feel like thats everyone else in the world.Its hard to find other ppl in real life that care about privacy.Most of my friends I cant talk to since they use stuff like discord.I might use SMS only to talk to family but thats about it