My family shares our Netflix account. We live in different states, but all in the United States.
I used it yesterday and it was fine. But today it was not. I got the “you are not part of this household” message, with the three options being:
- make your own account
- make this location the household location
- I’m traveling
I watch a lot of random stuff, but mostly on different services. So, while it’s kind of a bummer to uninstall Netflix, I have plenty of options. It’s moreso just depressing that the enshittification has finally hit North America. Will probably see more of this stuff around on the internet soon, as I’m guessing I just got my number pulled before most people (which is doubly depressing since this we’ve had Netflix since like 2005 or something and were strong advocates of it when linear tv was still dominant - THAT’S CAPITALISM FOR YA!~)
Fun Fact! Did you know that an external Blu-Ray drive and a copy of MakeMKV is only $115? That is equivalent to about 7 months of a standard Netflix subscription. Fascinating! 💸
Apropos to nothing, a library card is free! Did you know that your library will have almost infinite DVDs and Blu-Rays for you to check out anytime you want? Libraries are cool! 🤓
Just some totally random fun facts that I thought of for no reason at all… 🙃
Just remember that dual-layer Blu-ray discs are up to 50GB each. For no reason, you should add a few TB of hard drives under 100$ to your computer because everyone needs data… However, if you do partake in “extended library checkouts”, you can have a rotating selection of 20-80 movies all without an internet connection. And you don’t even have to rewind the tapes 🙃 for the library, how cool!
Sadly, MakeMKV takes minimum 30 minutes per “job”, meaning you can’t just have a happy hour at the library admiring the Bluray cases, oh for shame.
It’s true you don’t have to rewind the DVDs, but I always do just because I really appreciate everything the library provides to the community. Anything I can do to make the librarians jobs easier, you know?
Hey, you seem like the kind of person who might know the answer to this: If I produce my own video content and want to share it with others for free, say through a peer-to-peer solution where others can help me spread my creation, how would I get the right to start seeding my video?
Hmm. I’m actually probably not a guy that is well versed in that kind of thing. Are you talking about sharing your “extended library checkouts”? I don’t really use peer-to-peer networks except for downloading actual Linux ISOs. Like the meme except earnestly. I don’t really feel like pissing off my ISP.
If you’re talking about video you create and have the rights to… PeerTube might be a good way to get your stuff out there. It is a federated/peer-to-peer video sharing server. There are major instances you can use, and you could also host your own server and publish your work there and then let it federate out to the other PeerTube instances.