• kandoh@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    It just requires so much more foresight in planning what youā€™re going to watch.

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      9 months ago

      I can request a show, do a load of laundry and have it available. Iā€™ve decent enough Internet where a movie can be available in as little as 5 minutes if it finds a nice little hevc webrip. I get that itā€™s not instant but a proper setup can have you rocking and rolling in under an hour.

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      9 months ago

      Itā€™s a fair criticism but I find the drawbacks to be quite tolerable compared to the benefits. Each person must do their own calculus. As the user above alluded to, there are apps which make the experience almost seamless. My two favourite apps ever are Radarr and Sonarr.

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      9 months ago

      Streaming services arenā€™t much better, they regularly didnā€™t have what I wanted to watch and Iā€™m not subscribing to more than one. Now Iā€™m subscribing to none and watch what I want instead of what Netflix has available.

    • ScaNtuRd@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Well I just download more or less everything that comes out lol. Itā€™s like having my own streaming service with thousands if movies and shows available.