For anyone else pissed off about #Netflix, I suggest cancelling your subscription and getting a Synology NAS. (and get one for whoever you were sharing Netflix with before too)
It's got a nice web interface for downloading stuff (with a search!) and it can stream to all of your devices (on your home network) via the "SMB" protocol.
Just get the cheapest one that has their browser OS thingie.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Servers/ci/15779?filters=fct_brand_name%3Asynology
Of course you should only be downloading media that you have rights to and should *NOT* follow this guide for adding more search engines to the built in Download Station software.
The Download Station software *shouldn't* be used for pirating copyrighted material from the comfort of any web browser! https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages/DownloadStation
@mauve I think this is my first bookmark..
@mauve one more sad thing of living in Brazil is that synology costs more than 10 years of netflix because the taxes and international exchange.
@lumen Are there more local alternatives? Iimagine there's a large community of folks inro this use case over there
@mauve not really. Every tech is insanely expensive. A raspberry pi costs half of minimum wage to get an idea of the problem. The last Iphone costs more than a 3 year old car.
Just bad administration.
@mauve I am pissed off about an adjacent issue https://twit.social/@AdreanaInLB/109841446870707073
@AdreanaInLB Yeah, the state of music streaming is also super annoying.
I wish there was a sort of sub service that would let you download all the tracks for personal usage and pay out to artists from the subscription fees automatically. With like very slim processing overhead.
Something like https://comradery.co/ but for media.
For example, this guy is going to cost less than a year of Netflix and nobody can randomly take away any media you have saved.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1750525-REG/synology_4tb_diskstation_ds120j_1_bay.html