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Failed Imagineer posted:At least in Ireland they were shamefaced enough to say that this only applied to under-40s (iirc). But this is just "welp, we give up" I'm a bit confused because they're not saying to ignore the result they're saying to treat it as a positive test an just go ahead and isolate, and report the result online but we know nobody will bother to do that. So why are they telling people with symptoms to get a confirmation PCR?
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I wouldn't recommend NowTV, and will probably be cancelling it myself when I get around to it. Firstly, since it's based on Sky, the TV, movie and sport sections are all different packages. I don't care about sport, but I'm not paying double just to be able to watch a film sometimes. Also, the actual picture quality is low - you ludicrously have to pay extra for 1080p, the standard is 720p. There is no option for 4K or HDR, unlike other services (presumably this is to push people towards Sky TV). Finally, despite the main reason for subscribing being access to American shows like on HBO (which Sky/NowTV snapped up the exclusive rights to), a lot of those shows are not available at the same time as in the US. For instance, even though it's on NowTV, I'm currently  ing (the excellent) Yellowjackets, because I have to wait the best part of a week after its US broadcast for it to turn up here. I've heard good things about a new HBO show called Station Eleven that started in mid December. It currently isn't on NowTV at all.I used to pirate loads of music back in the day. Now, I just have a subscription to Spotify because it's easy to use and has almost anything I'd want available. When piracy offers a better service than paying, I don't feel guilty about it. e: As for recommendations, Prime has a lot of decent stuff and of course comes with the Amazon benefits. Netflix is probably the most established with the biggest exclusive library, and I would put in a word for Apple TV+ - it's got a lot of super-high budget prestige stuff, plenty of it worth watching, and there are currently a bunch of ways to get very long free trial periods. I think you can still get a free year with a purchase of any Apple product, and 6 months free with a PS5. My LG tv keeps telling me I can get 3 months free (though it seems only if I start a new account). I've been watching it pretty much since it launched and have never paid, and tbh I've watched enough now that I'd consider shelling out when the time comes. Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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I just read Station Eleven (my partner got a galley print of it in 2013 and has been nagging me to read it for 8 years , she was right it's great), and am looking forward to filesing the show. Good one to read whole having COVID, and a nice companion to The Stand/The Road
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Have you ever tried to use iPlayer? It's much worse.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:I'm a bit confused because they're not saying to ignore the result they're saying to treat it as a positive test an just go ahead and isolate, and report the result online but we know nobody will bother to do that. So why are they telling people with symptoms to get a confirmation PCR? Don't worry everyone I've got this covered.
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XMNN posted:well they are drug dealers Isn't said huge legal grower owned by the husband of a Tory MP? E: hadn't refreshed and this was from pages ago, apologies if already discussed. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Serious answer for streaming services : ask your friends and family if you can just use their accounts. None of the big names seem to really give too much of a poo poo about account sharing, so long as you're not taking the piss.
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From an Indy article on school staff shortages/closuresquote:The Liberal Democrats have called for a £30 catch-up voucher for every day missed by school students for Covid-related absence Schools wallets!
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Get a big external HDD and a paid VPN and you’ll never have to worry about streaming services again
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Comrade Fakename posted:Finally, despite the main reason for subscribing being access to American shows like on HBO (which Sky/NowTV snapped up the exclusive rights to), a lot of those shows are not available at the same time as in the US. For instance, even though it's on NowTV, I'm currently Contacted their twitter support and they said there had been a 'dispute over rights' so they weren't able to show it. In theory I know they can't help these disputes, but it shows that (A) They don't warn customers at all that shows might disappear, and (B) They are poo poo at negotiating streaming rights if the other party can just yank them whenever. Amazon Prime is even more annoying, because there's random stuff that's free with your Prime subscription, and a huge library of stuff you have to pay again to buy / rent. But the free stuff constantly changes (especially the movies), so you frequently get into a show only to find the later series aren't free, or that they suddenly lose their free status and you now have to pay to keep watching. Our gran has our password and keeps accidentally buying poo poo box sets on my wife's account. Anyone 'member when Netflix had a 'leaving soon' section?
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Definitely give Mubi a look - right now they've got a three months for $1 deal going, maybe it's £1 in the UK idk. More of an arthouse/indie film platform but they have lots of good and interesting stuff
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Jakabite posted:Get a big external HDD and a paid VPN and you’ll never have to worry about streaming services again I went through a huge rigmarole trying to access HBO Max on the TV itself and the final step was asking an American if I could use their account lol
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NotJustANumber99 posted:surely with a roku you still need to pay for all the actual content? Depends. I don't pay for any but if you have got Now etc, you can stream them via Roku. But there's plenty of free stuff on there. https://twitter.com/ApplecoreKatie/status/1478697472939679745?s=20 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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The Perfect Element posted:Serious answer for streaming services : ask your friends and family if you can just use their accounts. None of the big names seem to really give too much of a poo poo about account sharing, so long as you're not taking the piss. This makes me think of that excellent photoshop someone did of the Council of Elrond but with Streaming Sites. Sadly I can't find it online.
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https://player.bfi.org.uk/ BFI player is good value for arthouse / indie cinema. £4.99 p/m with the first month free. The subscriber library is pretty big, the only drawback is that they can be slow to add new stuff to subscriptions. Subscribers also get 10% off rentals
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Comrade Fakename posted:I used to pirate loads of music back in the day. Now, I just have a subscription to Spotify because it's easy to use and has almost anything I'd want available. When piracy offers a better service than paying, I don't feel guilty about it.
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Borrovan posted:This is true again wrt film/tv. Install Plex on your TV, torrent all your poo poo on your PC, no more loving around trying to work out which platform you need to use to watch [x]. Jellyfin is free and does the same thing as Plex now. https://www.smarthomebeginner.com/docker-home-media-server-2018-basic/ With a day's worth of effort, you can build this for about £40 and £5-10/month ongoing (VPN, Usenet) and have an entirely automated, secure, homebrew streaming system.
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Good news everyone! https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1478739540307230720
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Borrovan posted:This is true again wrt film/tv. Install Plex on your TV, torrent all your poo poo on your PC, no more loving around trying to work out which platform you need to use to watch [x]. Most smart TVs can speak DLNA/uPNP and Windows has a built-in DLNA server (although it's for some reason buried away in the network options).
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The plex app, while never perfect, tends to be a lot more user-friendly and featureful than any other local-play option on smart TVs or consoles.
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josh04 posted:Good news everyone! https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/977881494998876160?s=20
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Total Meatlove posted:Jellyfin is free and does the same thing as Plex now. This sounds good, but I don't understand how it can be automated without downloading a bunch of poo poo that you don't want? It seems like you'd have to do a lot of finessing for that not to happen, in which case you might as well have just chosen what you wanted and downloaded it yourself
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I have a big hard disk, Plex and access to various yarr-me-hearty related websites. Even for stuff I do have legit access to (which given my wife subscribes to Netflix and Disney+ and we have Amazon Prime is well most of it) it's just easier to have it all downloaded and in one place. The more streaming services atomise as each company wants their own slice of the pie, the more piracy is going to appeal to anyone with a clue :/ Edit: Plex is also free? You can pay for more features if you want though there's never anything there that's tempted me to splash out, but the base version is free. I think I maybe paid $5 for the Android app on my tablet years ago. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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josh04 posted:Good news everyone! "It is antisemitic but everyone else does it anyway so it's fine." 
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Pablo Bluth posted:Disney+ is trying to go against that by not dropping whole series at once but doing weekly episodes.
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I just torrent most TV, and mainstream cinema. Torrenting is great people abandoned it too quickly for the walled gardens of paid streaming platforms. Also I still p2p all my music, buy originals on vinyl if they don't suck.
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If they didn't want us to pirate things, why do they make it look so cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnLVyNB52R8
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Well the fuckers raised my rent so goodbye to my Netflix plans, lol
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Barry Foster posted:European countries are so much better than us in every way and it's maddening Having lived there, offer Very Much Not Valid in Norway :P
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Paperhouse posted:This sounds good, but I don't understand how it can be automated without downloading a bunch of poo poo that you don't want? It seems like you'd have to do a lot of finessing for that not to happen, in which case you might as well have just chosen what you wanted and downloaded it yourself Sonarr as an example, I tell it that I want to watch Elementary (2012), that I want only the First Season, and that I want it in 1080p quality. Sonarr communicates over API to search Indexers, finds the files in the sufficient quality, and then sends them to the download client (again with API). It does that daily, so if you're watching something that's still airing, as soon as it's available on the indexer it'll be found and the process will happen. There's a lot of dialling in you can do. I've not had any problems with getting things.
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I abandoned piracy when it just became very slightly easier to be able to stream legally straight from my phone to my Chromecast (on my old non-smart telly). Literally, just making it so I didn't have to stand up & walk 3 paces to my computer was all it took to make me put my hand in my pocket, it was never about the money. Then the legal services made it so I have to spend 5 minutes messing around on my phone just to find out which bloody service to use, whilst the pirates were just like "lol y u need phone", so here we are. Free market in action. Buy quite a bit of music on bandcamp these days, it's good. Also have a streaming service, honestly it still irks me that I don't get to own albums on it though, but pirating lesser-known music is hard & I'm not paying like £50 a week for a few new albums at commercial prices so streaming it is 
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I don't understand why anyone would use anything other than Plex if they're trying to stream media at home.feedmegin posted:Having lived there, offer Very Much Not Valid in Norway :P Honestly that'd be fine by me if they weren't such narcs about weed and all the other Good Drugs
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Guavanaut posted:I would if all the "3D printed house!" ideas didn't look like venture capital scams, over-complicated ways of doing something that can already be done by calling a brickie, or like they'd fall over in a stiff breeze.  (it's this, this is the bullshit part of that sentence)
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