In Portland, Ore., Brittany Trahan started buying DVDs rather than paying for Netflix and Apple TV, while Lisa Shannon has been relying on public transit instead of taking an Uber. And in McDonough, Ga., Brian Seymour II has been embracing the cold to shop locally instead of buying through Amazon.
They’re among a growing number of Americans participating in a boycott this month, targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
I’m know kids these days who are preferring a dumb phone, now physical media is making a comeback.
Has our surveillance economy finally backfired enough that people are starting to reclaim ownership? God I hope so.
We’re the closest we’ve been since the cloud started, but sadly, people are still addicted to the almighty algorithm.
TIL I am unintentionally boycotting
lol. I was boycotting more than I thought. Seriously though its practically a fight to do things without a cell phone now.
And specifically an Android or IOS phone, and bit by bit, a sanctioned, non-rooted OS.
I mean without one entirely. Like a non app option. I mean even if its a super libre free as in freedom hardware and software with stallmans personal seal of approval I still don’t want to be forced to use only that one option. I should be able to use a web portal or mail a check or come in person.
What happened to good old pirating? We used to show them middle finger for wanting single payment from us, and now we do subscriptions for stuff we barely even use?
Pirates have historically been some of the biggest DVD collectors.
I have like 5 CD books filled with burnt DVDs of pirated shit. 😃
Participating in a boycott this month? You should be doing all that stuff period.
It’s marketing, my friend.
Just inconvenience yourself for this month for the greater good.
Ohh month’s already up… he that wasn’t that bad was it, maybe keep going?
Nah shop Amazon when it costs them money. As in, you know you are buying at or below cost.
I just bought a few things from Amazon, cheaper than any competition to begin with, but also used the last of my Amazon rewards balance.
Then put everything on a 0% interest offer and religiously pay the minimum until the last bill, and pay it all off then. Just don’t forget.
Use them when it benefits you significantly more than it benefits them.
I have been buying a hell of a lot more stuff on eBay, Newegg, B&H, etc lately. And most of the cheap consumer junk that I would buy on Amazon is even cheaper on AliExpress if I’m willing to wait a little longer.
I was kinda pissed when I bought a reasonably priced commodity on eBay and it was delivered in Amazon packaging by an Amazon truck, though.
That’s too much work. I just don’t buy from Amazon.
>buy hard drives from Amazon to build your own AWS hosting without Amazon
Ref: I’ll allow it
I was kinda pissed when I bought a reasonably priced commodity on eBay and it was delivered in Amazon packaging by an Amazon truck, though.
I’ve noticed this too, if the same thing’s slightly more on eBay it’s probably someone ordering it for you on Amazon and pocketing the difference
Discs from libraries!
Blurays are better quality than streaming.
4K Bluray is the highest quality you’ll ever get in your home by like, a lot.
Streaming is a regression.
What’s the state of BluRay ripping these days? I know it used to be tough, but then again, DVDs are also “encrypted” and that’s nothing to worry about any more.
Streaming is progress in terms of convenience, but the trade-off is a lower image quality and forgoing ownership of the media you buy/consume.
These days I buy Blurays and rip them to my Jellyfin server. Worth it for me, but I would hardly call that process convenient.
Now it’s expensive to even build one of those servers. I just play my discs and rip them to a hdd collection. I just do it the ghetto way by having a usb hub hooked up to an nvidia shield with some hdds.
It’s not. I have a server with dozens of TBs of storage which is a 2011 Lenovo tower I got for free out of someone’s garage. It doesn’t take a whole lot to store things.
Yeah but HDDs are going up in price now
To a degree yes, but not nearly as bad as other components right now. You can at the very least buy a single “small” HDD like 4TB for pretty cheap that is far more than what you’d get from big tech on an average storage plan.
This is subject to change but as of today, you can get this for cheap
That’s good. Main thing stopping me from doing this is space but glad it’s still possible for others.
If you wanted something to get started for streaming and you are space limited (in your home) I would recommend this as your server:
- https://a.co/d/00MhaEgG the Beelink S13 which is under $300 and will serve your streaming needs for a very long time.
And for storage you could get this 4TB external drive and plug it into the Beelink and sit it right on top for $130:
And if you have an Nvidia shield I’m pretty sure you could also skip the S13 and just plug the drive into your shield and run Jellyfin or what have you directly on that. I know lots of people brag about their big overbuilt servers, but you don’t have to go down that road at all if all you want is to store and stream your media.
No, we don’t “Believe they are not doing enough to stand up against”, that’s slimy spineless wording.
We “KNOW that they are ACTIVELY HELPING”
targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown
Oh ffs, they’re not doing enough because they’ve submitted to him! They literally went to his inauguration to kiss the ring!
But better to wake up late then never I suppose
And before that, where did people think money-grubbing, morally-bankrupt billionaires vacuuming up all their data was going to lead? This was all but inevitable, especially when, without outrage-based engagement algorithms there is no President Trump. These scumbags prop each other up. Don’t give them a dime or let them profit off your attention.
Dusted off the mp3s too. Long live VLC
If you have Plex, Plexamp does a great job of streaming music outside the home and having a host of other features (playing similar songs / keeping the playing going / music by mood / etc).
Just missed Bandcamp Friday. Also, get u some flac.
With how much storage costs these days? I’ll stick with MP3.
convert them to vorbis. much better quality at mp3 sizes
Not that familiar with that format, ill look into it. Thanks!
This. If you want to be sure that the flacs are worth it, go do one of those 128kbps mp3 vs 320 mp3 vs flac tests and see if you can hear the difference. I can’t, so I just do 128 mp3s and save the storage. Almost 2k songs in 10gb of space :D
I ripped to flacs not because I can hear a difference but I can reencode to any format I want and never have to rip again.
Odd choice just pirate and teach others how to aswell. Hurts in this case Netflix way more
Pirating can be legally cut off. DVDs can’t
They’ve been trying for how long now? The pirates always win in the end.
With streaming companies owning the content, buying DVDs is just another way of financially supporting the same companies for worse quality.
Even when one piracy platform is taken down, there are new ones launched in their place. Nothing guarantees that DVDs will continue to be produced in perpetuity, just as digital copies of video games are progressively becoming less and less prevalent.
How does one keep their system secure with pirating? A large mkv of a new movie seems like an effective container to deliver a payload.
This would only work if the supposed payload targeted a vulnerability in a media player. I might be wrong but I’ve never heard of one such vulnerability. And since there are so many different media players out there, such attack would not compromise as many people that other more efficient attack vectors could
Carefully.
Seriously, I don’t know of any/many issues caused by downloading and playing a legitimate video file (MP4/MKV/AVI).
I feel like, if there are, those are being saved for a nation state level attack and not Fred downloading Shrek 2 questionably.
Dang it, I’m already boycotting them because i want to actually own my media and support local businesses and a bunch of other reasons, how am I supposed to boycott them harder to include capitulation to Trump?!
Help your friends
The last two years I started going to garage sales for DVDs/Blu Rays.
It’s been great. You can get like 5-10 movies for the price of a month of Netflix. Then you can sell them next spring for $5-10 and buy $5-10 worth from someone else of stuff you haven’t seen.
