I pay for an emby share personally.

Plex/emby/jellyfin, there are a ton of paid shares out there that are cheap.

Don't give them any ideas

I actually haven't seen one yet. I just assume it's an AI voice, reading AI generated text, about something that Netflix's data about you says you might like.

Maybe AI just manipulates the shows you're watching so that the drink they have is branded or the cars on the road all seem to be Kias...

You know, you and Black Mirror are laughing, But my wife sends me links to products off TikTok all the fucking time and I'm not even on TikTok.

You may want to watch the newest season of Black Mirror

i mean people already do this thanks in part to the hyperindividualism where people build their identity through the brands they consume.

An example, i only knew about MCU latest movie because a friend i have is walking MCU ad, he couldnt stop talking about going to watch this Thunderbolts movie. In farming on one side you have guys who are john deere extremists and in the other side you got massey ferguson fundamentalists, rarely you find someone that objectively uses both.

heck people build their identities based on the car brand they drive or the console brand they play instead and thus become walking ads for the brands.

My only criticism is that they have the big bang theory as the main thing shown right when you go to the website. I wouldn't be surprised if at least a few people just left as soon as they saw that.

Yep, link it with real debrid As you are, sailing the seas in style.. Great UI. Evan has a calendar to keep track of your series.

If it's in your systems in an open format it's yours, if it's outside your systems or wrapped in some kind of locked format that forces you to go through somebody else's software it's de facto theirs.

Due to my own experience in software development with 3rd party solutions from way back, I never adhered to Streaming solutions (even though I was tempted) and always stuck to getting my entertainment in a media format I controlled (legitimately for a long as I could, not so much once even physical media started having DRM) because I was aware that it's risky to outsource so much control over one aspect of what you do (in this case entertainment) to an entity which, frankly, sees you as nothing else that microscopic fraction of their bottomline.

(The funny bit is that if Netflix would sell me their Series in an open file format that I could download and at a reasonable price, I would have sent lots of money their way, same as I spent lots of money on DVDs and even VHS tapes back in the day. In fact all throughout that period I was doing something like that for games: as soon as I discovered GOG with their DRM-free downloadable installers, I started acquiring all my games by buying them from GOG)

In the fullness of time, my caution seems to have been proven right.

--cut to living room--
Stephen: Hey guys I'm going to the kitchen anyone need anything?

Rachel: I'll take a diet coke, in a glass with ice.

Stevie: Ohh that sounds refreshing

Greg: I'll take a fanta, glass, ice

Stephen: Orange or that new vanilla cherry flavor?

Greg: Ohh you have that, I though it was sold out everywhere! Yes PLEASE!

--cut to kitchen--

• stephen gets 4 frost glasses from the freezer places perfect icecubes to just above the rim and starts to fill each glass.

--cut to glasses, close microphone on the scene--

• the coke products fizz into the glasses magically creating just enough head as the ice clinks down into the glass. You head an almost subliminal sigh of pleasure plays just barely in the white noise of the carbonation.

--cut to living room--

• stephen walks in with a tray of glasses stephen: ohh I forgot mine!

*replays the scene again with a vanilla coke and he puts a sprig of mind on the glass.

Did Plex enshittify recently? I've seen a lot of people switching to jellyfin.