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Can also be done via trakt or imdb lists, if you’re paying more attention to what you’re doing than OP.

They’ll keep an ad-free option for another $2.99/month per https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/prime-video-update-announces-limited-ads

Seconding this, as it’s my go-to for anything that’s not for sale on Bandcamp and has treated me well.

You can get USB-C to HDMI adapters that serve this purpose. I bought one a while back for like $15 on Amazon along with a cheap HDMI switch, and will use it to flip a spare monitor to watch video sometimes when I’m not working especially hard.

I travel quite a bit, both for work and because I like going places. Often, internet is somewhere between unavailable and shitty. I keep a mess of music, movies, and tv shows synced/cached from Plex (which keeps fresh content via downloaded smart playlists that update as I watch episodes, etc.) and usually a couple of audiobooks in case I find myself making a long drive.

My comment mentioned why the SD card was removed. To paraphrase Linus, they’re the cheapest form of NAND storage and are extremely unreliable.

Your comment mentioned why you personally don’t like using SD cards, though I disagree that it’s a reason to remove the functionality completely, which is why I wouldn’t buy a phone without a slot. If you’re having such reliability issues, you should buy a higher quality SD card. They’re objectively more reliable than cloud storage though, should you ever go somewhere where network connectivity is an issue. And 128 GB is almost nothing, kinda proving my point that this is more of a use case point than an argument against the feature.

Also if they hadn’t removed the jack I doubt we would have seen as much progress with truly wireless earbuds.

Given that they’re still using Bluetooth, which is still terrible with any interference, low bandwidth, and has the same tedious connectivity problems it’s had for the past decade…I’d argue we have yet to see that progress where it matters.

the market has moved on.

If that were true, there wouldn’t be so many people vocally expressing why new products aren’t adequate without these basic features.

That’s not really a counter argument, you’re just complaining about people talking about hardware features they want in a thread about…hardware features we want.

A counter argument would elaborate on why these features aren’t relevant anymore, but you didn’t include that. A counter argument would offer superior alternatives that should be used instead of SD cards or 3.5mm jacks, but you didn’t include any of those. A counter argument would have addressed the initial arguments of cloud storage being an unnecessary expense and a wired jack being more reliable than Bluetooth, yet you didn’t do that either.

Every thread about hardware has at least one guy bitching that phones should still have 3.5mm jacks and expandable storage, but the guy whining about him is just as consistent. Congratulations, you’re a different layer of the exact problem you’re complaining about.

RE: OP, 3.5mm jack and SD card, of course.

It’s almost always going to be easier to obtain them through other means.

In the past, I’ve had good luck with StreamFab. It’s expensive and Mac/Windows only, I believe. I had a smallisj use case and was able to automate mac address changes on a VM so could get by with the free trial. Been a while, so I can only vouch that it used to work well, not sure if anything’s changed since then.

There was a pretty widespread crackdown on widevine decryption keys last year, iirc. That’s the sort of thing you’d be looking for if you wanted to continue searching out other tools or possibly roll your own.

torrents didn’t have official support till fairly recently and it’s still a little wonky

I don’t think this is true at all. They’ve both had solid torrent support for years, across multiple major version numbers. It’s neither wonky nor recent.

I’d say you’re probably going to want some custom scripts. Have Radarr move the file and rename as normal and then your script to symlink it back to the torrent directory under the original filename so it can continue to seed without taking up double space for every movie

Further driving home that this dude is full of shit, hardlinking the files is enabled by default in both Sonarr and Radarr and certainly doesn’t require any custom scripting.

OP, quit listening to random people online and spend some time reading the documentation yourself.

they’re literally taking money out of my pocket

That’d be pretty hard to do over the internet.

Services running in GCP aren’t built into the phone, which is kinda the main point of the statement you took issue with.

What about autocomplete? Face detection? Virtual assistants

How much of that is really built-in vs. offloaded to their cloud then cached locally (or just not usable offline, like Assistant)?

That’s the neat thing about the internet. Nobody had the expertise needed to do lots of things until they started to learn how…and all the information you need’s right there, just waiting for folks to go find it and learn from it.

I meant if you use sonarr/radarr, it doesn’t create duplicates by design.

Duplicates aren’t an issue. Doing this sort of upgrade without radarr/sonarr is just silly.

If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing.

It’s its own, separate thing.

“Piracy isn’t stealing” doesn’t require a qualifier. It’s objectively a separate, lesser crime. That correlation is just the result of effective, aggressive marketing that conflates the two. It was so effective that everyone misremembers the “you wouldn’t steal a car” ad.

I get .flac files that are generally tagged with everything except genre. Bandcamp (where I legally obtain files when I can) doesn’t tag genre either, so it’s at least consistent across my library.

Why not? Because ISP don’t snitch on you in case of illegal streaming?

Correct. ISPs aren’t monitoring for this stuff. They’re responding to complaints they get from copyright owners. With torrents, anyone in downloading the file can see IPs for everyone they’re downloading from. That’s how companies get IPs to follow up on, and why VPNs protect you (they’d just the IP of a VPN server). They then compile lists of these IPs, send to ISPs, who are then compelled by the courts to send letters and eventually disconnect you if you get caught again.

With streaming sites, the only one seeing your IP is the host of the site. Of course they’re not going to snitch, since you’re just watching the illegal stream they’ve made available. They’re the ones breaking the law in that case, you’re just watching a public stream. Obviously, you’re not expected to know whether every video on youtube was uploaded by the copyright owner. Instead, the onus for that falls on the uploader and host.

And what about usenet, I’ve read about it but I didn’t get it? Can you brief it out? How it similar to torrents and how it’s different?

Super high level: there’s two external parts, an indexer and a usenet provider. The indexer indexes .nzb files that serve as references to file locations on the usernet provider. Practically speaking, it maps pretty closely to .torrent files and the actual content you’re grabbing from peers, respectively. The important difference here is that the usenet providers host the content, rather than a bunch of random people (which can include corporate attorneys looking to contact your ISP).

Locally, you still use a client piece of software to download. You can send it a .nzb, and assuming it’s configured correctly with your usenet provider(s), will download the content.

Other important differences: 1. usenet indexers and providers are going to cost money, unlike torrenting. They tend to be pretty reasonable if you’re downloading a lot though. 2. Because the providers are more centralized than torrents, there’s some quirks. Retention is a factor, and generally the older something is, the harder it’ll be to find (or more expensive plan you’ll need with your provider), and not all providers have everything (so heavier users may need multiple providers to cover all their needs). A single good provider covers like 99% of what I need though.

This is accurate.

Just downloading/consuming isn’t the illegal part. It’s why you hear about torrent users getting ISP notices, but not people who download from usenet or watch pirate sports streams.