• gaiussabinus@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Because it worked with cable tv back in the day so it will work again if its allowed to. Stop giving companies your money as a general rule.

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      13 days ago

      Do you know what else eventually happened with cable? People cutting it by the millions when there was finally another choice.

      It’s interesting that my family went from wasting time siting in front of a big screen tv paying massively for cable channels we never used, to cutting the cable and only paying for 2-3 streaming services at a time

      But it’s even more interesting we continued down this path so our down time is dominated by small screens and somewhat interactive media instead of passively watching. If I stop paying for streaming media, my teens wouldn’t notice. It would just be the people here who would notice, as I complain more about doom scrolling and reaching the end