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[–] 191 points 1 year ago (26 children)

If you're boycotting, here you go. Ahoy!

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think this chart might be a bit dated, I'm fairly certain Disney has taken full control of Hulu, not 67%

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You only need 51% for "full control."

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Got it, boycott half episodes

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I wouldnt say Im even trying to boycott, but I could care less about literally everything under that umbrella except for Pixar, and I havent seen a new Pixar movie in probably 10 or more years.

    What the fuck does Winnie the Pooh Workbook even mean?

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You mean you couldn't care less.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I mean, I think it's possible for them to care less

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Then they must care a decent amount.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I went to look at the 538 Trump opinion polls to compare to his first term, then I remembered ABC bought and destroyed 538.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nate Silver has been shitty for a long time though too. I used to get his newsletters and you could watch the digression.

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  • [+] 149 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The only reason I've never canceled is because I've never subscribed.

    But I wish I had something to cancel in protest of the egregious 1st amendment violations.

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  • [–] 126 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I saw this suggestion on the site that shall not be named.

    Find a Nexstar or Sinclair owned channel, note the advertisers in there, and start shaming them for paying money to advertise on those networks. Literally 50% of their revenue comes from ads so gutting that would make a difference

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, pressure at all levels.

    You can also look at a local station's website and see advertising partners. Not the little fish that buy 1-2 ads a year for a local business, the ones that get their ads ran the most and in the best timeslots.

    That's where pressure is best applied on affiliates

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    "The site that shall not be named"

    ... Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? (/j)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I assume Facebook. We all realised after that that social media was an evil business.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Here's Sinclair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

    Here's Nexstar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Nexstar_Media_Group

    Edit: *David Smith, son of the founder and currently CEO of Sinclair, has a hilarious entry-

    In an August 1996 prostitution sting, Smith was charged with committing an "unnatural and perverted sex act" (oral sex) in a Sinclair company vehicle. He was sentenced to community service, which was fulfilled by having Sinclair station WBFF produce reports on a local drug counseling program.[14][15]

    Aaaaand not so funny-

    Prior to Ajit Pai's appointment under the first Donald Trump presidential administration as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Smith met with Pai to discuss deregulation of the FCC's media ownership rules. This meeting, plus Sinclair having been granted additional access to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, resulted in accusations that Sinclair was currying favor with the Trump administration in exchange for deregulation of the industry.[16][17][18] Smith met with Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election year, in which he told Trump, "We are here to deliver your message."[3]

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "come back and cancel anytime"

    What the fuck is that wording?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's very awkward. I think they mean you can stop the intent to cancel, so cancel the cancellation.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    After careful consideration, I think their intent was to say....

    You can come back anytime and if you do, you can always cancel at anytime.

    .... More or Less. Basically saying you can join and cancel at your leisure.

    That's a terrible way to say it, but ok.

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  • [+] 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's really sloppy wordmanship but I think what it's supposed to be saying is that the news has been met with both condemnation and praise from across the political spectrum aka condemnation from the left, and praise from the right. So technically the statement is true, but clumsily written.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    If I could download a car, you bet your ass I would!

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'd even make copies of that car for all my friends, just like I do now.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    I've already started my journey to replace all streaming services with jellyfin anyway so i will be cancelling mine too.

    This jimmy kimmel business just sweetens the deal.

    got an old raspberry pi set up as a jump box with a tailscale vpn so i can remotely power up my pc from anywhere and watch anything i have downloaded. Just need to get a dedicated server and storage, either nas or internal in a larger tower. But for now its working really well.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Do you have a good, idiot-friendly, guide on how to set up JellyFin? I tried once but wasn't able to get anything to stream.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've had trouble getting Jellyfish to stream anything. The error message it gives you in the client GUI make it sound like the problem is client-side, but it always ends up being permissions on the server (for me, anyway).

    I ended up having to move my media drive into /mnt/ (rather than /mnt//) and allow Jellyfin to access that folder - the Jellyfin service needs permissions.

    The Jellyfin log files will show you that is having trouble accessing the files of this is the issue.

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  • The Voyager app wouldn't let me edit my comment for some reason... So here's the edit I was going to add.

    I really dislike AI but the most concise set of instructions I could find was googling "Linux Mint drive permissions jellyfin" and following the instructions the AI spits out. Definitely read through the instructions and make sure they seem same first, tho.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh! In addition, if you want to access it from a tv or mobile device you install the client on those devices and point them at the same IP and port. My lg tv has jellyfin in the store, firesticks have it, play store (i assume apple app store too) amd the server can be managed from there too.

    You can set up users and allow each user to acces different content in the settings which is good if you have kids and want to keep them from watching john wick 😜

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Perhaps its been made easier now as i don't think i did much more than running the installer. My pc is on windows though, my server will likely be using some version of linux. I want to learn linux but need my main pc too much to make it a daily driver.

    I used these instrctions for the windows installer

    https://jellyfin.org/docs/

    (Click the windows link there)

    Run the installer (can set it as a service but thats only necessary if you want to run it on boot instead of after login. Afaik.)

    Once installed you can access it via your local ipaddress:8096 (eg http://192.168.1.100:8096/)

    From there you can head to management in the menus and set up your folders for movies/tv shows etc. You just make some folders somewhere on your pc and point it at those. Download all your content and organise it in there. Jellyfin is quite good at dividing things up into individual series and uses meta data to fill in names and thumbnails etc. And you can select the 3 dots when hovering over any thumbnails to edit the metadata or add custom thumnails etc.

    I just tinker with it though. Decide what settings you want to use. I still need to set up https but need to look into self signed certificates and stuff first.

    Hope that helps.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Need to stream at home or away from home?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Me and my wife both have desktop PC. The Windows version just has an installer as one would expect. The Linux version I used is the variety you just unzip in a directory and run from there which is about as easy.

    I have configured each machine to have a stable IP on the LAN and bookmarked it and if we want to watch each others content we just click on the bookmark for each others jellyfin.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    got an old raspberry pi set up as a jump box with a tailscale vpn so i can remotely power up my pc from anywhere and watch anything i have downloaded. Just need to get a dedicated server and storage, either nas or internal in a larger tower. But for now its working really well.

    cyberpunk is now.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Anyone have a guide for remote Jellyfin access running on a Linux server? Been struggling to get it working.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Look into:

    Talescale for an easy but limited option.

    Wireguard with a dynamic DNS service for something that provides more flexibility with a little set up.

    Don't open a publicly facing port unless it's for an encrypted tunnel. If you don't want to open your computer to a lot of threats. Always use an encrypted tunnel when opening something to the Internet.

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  • [–] 139 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh no, people are ditching the overpriced streaming service?

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Disney when they see people cancelling their subscriptions.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I cancelled my disney+ because of this.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    This reminds me to cancel my Disney plus subscription. Anytime I ever actually have a subscription is when there's new episodes of Andor. I'm genuinely baffled as to what other attractor Disney plus has.

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