I mean, any YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming. It's probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.

EDIT: Though to this influencer's credit, she seems more low key and avoids other social media. It appears she only does YT, Patreon, Ko-Fi, Peertube(!) and her own site, and uploads on a modest scheduile. That's quite reasonable.

I stream from self hosted sources, best of all worlds. No enshitification.

New media is acquired for free from the public libraries and then ripped, which under my local laws is perfectly legal.

Veronica is the best!

That looks like a streaming video

It's not the technology it's the culture behind it. the same was said about TV. American mainstream consumerist culture is the cancer,

20 years ago…

Streaming music was available back in the 1970s. It consisted of you and your friends sitting on the floor with an AM radio and a portable cassette recorder and hoping the local station would play your song you wanted to hear and record. And IF your timing was right, you could get the whole song recorded. All so you could play it back on that cheap tinny sounding recorder. Such recordings were often used as a gift to your latest girl/boy friend with "Our Song" on it.

I cut all streaming services out of my life last year, except for Curiosity Stream, a sort of "Netflix" for educational documentaries.

But I haven't even been watching that in a while, so maybe I should stop paying for it.

I just got sick of rising prices and invasive ads despite paying to avoid them. I use Plex now. I paid the one-time fee for the Lifetime Plex Pass and now I have access to all their advanced tools and streaming content, plus I can rip my movies/TV shows/music to my PC and stream them myself through Plex. No ads, no extra junk, no "are you still watching?" pop-ups. Just hit play and enjoy.

There was something called a rotary telephone and TV with an antenna. Children were typically used as the remote control to change the channel using a dial or buttons on the TV.

Tunes in a TV stream...

They were called broadcasts back then. And the equipment you needed was a bit more expensive and bulkier.

I still dont stream. I buy big hard drives and full them with stuff. :)

In 1970, I'd get home from kindergarten and watch Mr. Rogers in B&W. My mom didn't like color TVs for a long time because the colors were "wrong"--she was an artist, a painter. So, we didn't have a color TV till the mid-70s when she saw a Sony TV and decided the color was okay.

EDIT: I don't like that Lemmy is changing my double hyphen (--) to an en-dash. I guess I'll need to escape it from now on. I don't like being tagged as AI, when I'm clearly just an old-school non-AI bot.

There were huge antiwar protests and the National Guard shot a bunch of students at Kent State. But thank God there was no streaming TV. That would have been insufferable.

I wonder when I first started regularly streaming video? I remember downloading things to watch because streaming was too slow. Probably YouTube, but I don't remember when I started using it.

There was a lot more fresh water back then so they were all rivers.

A decent “no logs” VPN + thepiratebay.org, or Streamio + realdebrid has solved just about every media issue I’ve had.

Most of the time it’s easier just to open Streamio than search through 8 apps for what I want to watch only to find it gated behind a $65/mo. add on subscription, or not at all.

Mainstream app streaming has gotten worse, and open source streaming has gotten wildly easier.

Happy didn't exist either.

Still doesn't.

Damn... Guess I'm 56 now.

She looks more like weird Al than Jack Black looks like meatloaf.

Thumbnail looked like Weird Al.

I guess people sit all day and stream stuff, because you cant do hobbies like dance, yoga, bicycle or anything else looool.

Is that a young Weird Al?