The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices
arstechnica.com

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.

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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

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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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?

Most (if not all?) of the *arrs can use torrents. edit: as for guides, i would just check out yams.media.

What do you mean? What does isp have to do with Usenet?

@iHUNTcriminals

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Usenet access used to be included by ISPs. It’s been a long time since that was standard. I’m not sure which Usenet providers are worthwhile now.

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

@rufus

@owiseedoubleyou @deleted @iHUNTcriminals

No, binaries were included. That was the main way binaries were exchanged for a time.

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.

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