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Streaming prices are out of hand. What are cheaper alternatives?

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[–] eli@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Qbittorrent and a VPN, I've been using Proton VPN and it's been good.

Save up for a 2 bay NAS and a couple hard drives once you cancel your subs, if you want to keep any content that is.

Plex is still a solid choice, but there's probably other self host media options now.

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Jellyfin is generally what people are using now instead of Plex, including myself.

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I want to like my jellyfin server but it has a bad habit of using 100% of my CPU while idling, and I still haven't figured out a fix yet

[–] eli@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

How are you personally doing remote streaming? I know some have used Tailscale/headscale, haven't looked into it much since I've been using Plex for over 10 years now...but want to slowly migrate off of it.