cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/1072752

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/K4EIh

  • somas@kbin.social
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    Does your ISP still provide Usenet access or do you subscribe to a Usenet provider?

    Paying $9 a month for Usenet makes me wonder if I shouldn’t just keep paying for Hulu

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think my ISP provides it.

      Id suggest you to setup sonarr and radarr behind a vpn as it’s a set and forget setup.

      Fully automated.

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        @deleted
        Oh? You don’t have to setup a usenet provider to Sonaar work?

        I’m out of the loop then. You have any recommendations for modern setup tutorials?

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          yeah. but i think most of them excluded binaries, even back then.

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              I’m pretty sure around where i live you did not get the alt.binaries groups except if you went to a proper usenet provider and payed. the ISPs didn’t want to pay for all of the storage. but this was a long time ago and i wasn’t yet interested in stuff like that. maybe i misremember.

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        My ISP has their own usenet servers. I get access to all the good shit via it, for free.