LifeBandit666

Back when I was a streamer I used Kodi with the add-ons (I was in a subreddit where the current good ones got posted now and then) and had a Real Debrid account.

It was really convenient, maybe give it a go with your Pi. There’s an OS you can bang on it (is it openelec? Libre-elec? Something like that) and just plug it into your TV. You’ll have to work out controlling it in a convenient way, I have a little keyboard about the size of a remote with a usb dongle. It’s got a little touchpad for the mouse and cost me fuck all on Amazon.

You do have to pay for Real Debrid but it’s totally worth the price and will get you used to paying for piracy.

So the cycle goes:

Install Kodi and play with the free streams and think it’s pretty great, get frustrated because you can’t watch that one thing, finally bite the bullet and get a month of Real Debrid, tell your friends how ace Real Debrid is.

Just skip that and get Real Debrid once you have your Pi set up.

Meh my Usenet provider also partners with a VPN provider. Still costs me £5 a month for the VPN but I may as well use it, I like having a VPN

Douch or turd sandwich?

I had a friend bring up this very topic this weekend and I replied “What would be more creepy and more likely is that the ad giants have algorithms for working out what you’ll buy that are that good that they know what you want before you do and you’re just noticing how good it is”

I had a friend at work who said “People who pirate stuff are just as bad as burglers” to me. I had just been Burgled 2 weeks before Christmas.

I replied “Right so I’m as bad as the smack heads that robbed my kids presents, is that what you’re saying?”

He did that thing folk do when they look like a fish breathing then tried to backtrack, but that’s when he became a “work colleague” again.

I have a mini PC and Proxmox, a Debian VM with a Portainer stack, and plex

Halifax

Hey original commenter here, just read your username and if Brad is short for Bradford I’m just over the hill from you

As a shop floor guy I identify with what you’re saying and if you’re not in one get in a Union.

But those guys do all the paperwork and business shit. If they don’t do it right then it can blow holes in the business, which pays your wages.

For example, this week has been a shit show at work because the IT crisis happened. This has meant parts that we need haven’t arrived, and lines have shut down.

Management have had their heads up their arse trying to keep shit running, sending folk home on holidays, hell lads are taking time off unpaid rather than bum around doing “preventative maintenance”

Someone has gotta make sure all that shit works out and it ain’t me. I’ve just got to get the parts out when they’re there.

All I’m saying is that in a good company there’s less “Us and Them” everyone has a role that’s recognised, and individuals are judged on their work rather than their position. You can have good and bad CEOs and Forklift Drivers

How do I avoid Hoarding? Well I have a total of 2.75tb of space, so when it gets a bit full I go through and delete shit we watched already so I have space for more stuff

Have you looked into Bazarr? It’ll find and add subtitles to your shows

This isn’t real life it’s an online forum in a video game

“Dodgy Firestick”

It was one of them 1 week ban and all API tokens revoked things. I just told him to get his hand in his pocket

I gave a mate my username/password and immediately got blocked on Debrid when he used it…

It was the early days of the internet and I liked Metal music.

To get me some legal Metal I had to catch a train to the nearest city for like a half hour trip, then walk around to the tiny metal shop and hope they had the CD I wanted.

And I did that. I bought a CD a week from the local store and went on monthly trips to the City.

But I also got them off torrents. Sure it may take a week to download a track but that meant just leaving my PC on.

So I built up a collection. I copied the CDs I bought. I made track lists of the best songs and made my own compilation CDs and took them to work at Deep Pan Pizza, and we would put them on while throwing pizzas at the customers.

I ended up with a DJ case of copied CDs which is still on my loft. They weren’t all downloaded, but copying media is Piracy, and I made CDs for my friends. Fartknocker Volumes 1 and 2 are still talked about by my old friends because they were full of Bangers.

Now I have a Spotify Family account and every few months they add a quid onto the price. The other day I put on The Global News podcast by the BBC and it had adverts in it! I pay my licence fee for the BBC, they don’t do advertising. Pisses me off.

So now I use Audiobookshelf for my podcasts. Currently I’m curating a music collection I’ve pulled from my old iPod in my car. Not sure it’s feasible to replace Spotify but I can try

Congratulations!

That Baby will want some Peppa Pig (mine are over a decade old now so yes I’m out of date) in the future so your stack will come in useful again!

My Babies want Anime now

Pirating by being better at the instrument. Love it.

I’ve been able to play by ear for years but it’s not effortless, it’s much easier to see a chord progression first at least.

So I’m still stuck in the Tab world a bit, except I look up chords to songs then play around with the chords until I have something cool, but that is the beauty of playing finger style, it can sound cool in different ways depending on the strings you play