• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    1. Meet woman, don’t be weird.

    2. Gradually build a loving, trusting relationship.

    3. She has to get surgery and she’ll be bed-bound while she recovers.

    4. “Will you take care of me, Anon?”

    5. Lord of the Rings marathon. The director’s cuts. She can’t run.

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      When you’re torrenting and you’re planning to watch with someone else, you decide what you’re watching at least eight hours in advance, preferably a day. Radarr can’t find stuff instantaneously, assuming the automated search finds it at all, and torrents can take hours to finish, plus leaving time to resolve technical mishaps with your *arr stack, like the VPN being dead. If you and the person you wanna watch with aren’t going to be in the same room, you’ll have to set aside even longer in order to transcode it into a format a browser can play at a bitrate that’s low enough to stream, and load it into your HTTP server so that Cytube can play it. Ideally you’d block out some time to test and troubleshoot Cytube too.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I prefer NGINX with autoindex. Lightweight, no JavaScript, looks like every Linux ISO mirror, filenames already have all the required info, can be quickly searched with CTRL+F, fits perfectly to my laziness.

      If you want some improvement, you can use FancyIndex module.

      But the files need to be in codecs supported by your browser(s). I prefer AV1+Opus in WebM container which have been supported by Firefox for a while. At this point it’s really only Safari not fully supporting AV1 because it relies on hardware decoding and Apple wants you to buy new hardware.

    • Zron@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      You can also press one button to configure a torrent to download first and last, allowing you to play a video while it streams in.

      Anon can’t even torrent right, she just got scared that he’d be too stupid to put on the condom right.

  • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    4 months ago

    Yeah my ex wife initially made fun of my server with my Plex media on it…

    Guess what she wanted after our divorce? That’s right Plex.

    If she scoffs at your media setup she’s wrong for you.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    What’s with the “ooga booga woman scared by tech” meme? Like, people have been torrenting for ages, it’s not like it’s underground.

    And just have it downloaded? “Hey, wanna come over and watch ____? Yes? Cool, see you then.” Then start the download. If it’s popular, you’ll have the file in, like, 10 minutes. And if she’s that “confused” by an hdmi cable (which is an extremely common cable these days, but whatever), put it on a flash drive and plug that in. And if someone is interested, I can’t imagine setting something up would make them leave? “Oh gosh, he had a laptop and a… A cable, you say? Well golly gee, I should run away from this fringe tech afficionado because who does that???”

    I don’t know why some guys act like tech just washed over women. We were there sailing the same high seas as the rest of ya’ll.

    “What do you mean the movie will come from the laptop?” Boy, bye

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      In the post the woman is not the butt of the joke for being tech illiterate (and I’d argue they aren’t presented as that), the joke is on Anon for insisting on using free/techy stuff rather than costly but convenient things and ruining the vibe of the evening. This could just as easily say “Anon, why are you still fiddling with the picture settings? It looks fine. Motion blur? I don’t know what that is. It looks fine. Just watch the movie.”

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      1·
      4 months ago

      Don’t think it is about women being scared by tech, but “normies” only really knowing how to use Netflix to watch a movie.

  • Blopen_scr0pen@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Once I was with a girl and taking too long to get a torrent going so she whips out her phone and does it herself. Safe enough to say that we are together now.

  • Huschke@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    This is why you have a server running jellyfin qbittorent, Jackett, sonarr, radarr, all behind a good VPN.

    Anon is obviously a noob and deserves the walkout.

  • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Mate, don’t be weird. Torrent the movie you wanna watch before your girl gets there. Put it in your plex library and boot up Plex on your xbox. Easy peasy. You don’t have to be weird about it.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    It’s Usenet babe. Get this… it’s been around since 1980! Isn’t that wild, babe? It just goes to show, if a distribution system isn’t broke, don’t fix it.

    • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      4 months ago

      Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.

      A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn’t I do this switch years ago???

        • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          4 months ago

          IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if it’s not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Haven’t had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*

  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
    0·
    4 months ago

    Switch to streaming and use ad blockers. It will be 720/ 1080p max, though. Most people won’t notice. There’s a guide/ wiki on a specific lemmy community.

    Also, be honest. Your partner might be tech savvy and not be able to afford entertainment as well. Go for it. That’s how I found my partner.

      • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
        0·
        4 months ago

        If there was a reasonably-priced ad-free service

        Then I’d still not buy because typical services won’t fool me a third time. Reasonably priced ad free were called cable TV and Netflix. Then, each put ads in and hiked prices. The enshitification of Netflix is now common example of the commodification of an IT product or service.

        We created atypical services for reasonably priced ad free content. It now costs me about $120/yr for whatever typical domestic or foreign programming, without ads. For $60/yr it’s domestic programming and few hours instead of a few minutes to grab a program. I also donate directly for some streaming content I enjoy, such as agadmator chess, then watch with an ad blocker. Both are reasonably priced and ad free.

        • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
          0·
          4 months ago

          Ha, I mean, it’s not like there is a huge buy-in. If there was a good convenient service again, I’d start using it. When it invariably it goes to shit, I’ll stop paying and go back to downloading. Just like I did with Netflix.

          If enough people stopped paying because of their bullshit, maybe that would pave the way for a a platform where you actually feel like you own the shit you paid for.

          • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
            0·
            4 months ago

            Ha, I mean, it’s not like there is a huge buy-in.

            If one does the math for an average single income US household, a modest broadband connection is 15-20% of their disposable income. They survive on metered cellular.

            If there was a good convenient service again, I’d start using it.

            I’ll stay right where I’m at, paying less for more and giving more to content creators of substance, and with the convenience of a stable system.