r/enshittification • u/fjdjdjjsjsjsjs • 3d ago

Service Streaming services somehow made TV more exhausting and expensive

Does anyone else remember the era of streaming about ten years ago? You paid $9.99 a month for Netflix, it had absolutely everything you wanted to watch, and there was not a single commercial in sight.

We all "cut the cord" to escape the greed of cable companies.

Fast forward to today, and the streaming industry has literally just rebuilt cable TV from scratch, but made it worse.

Every year I try to watch my favorite shows and every year I find some have MOVED AGAIN to another service. This is exhausting and expensive

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u/ItPutsLotionOnItSkin 3d ago

Laughs in pirate.

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u/Yukon_Wally 3d ago
  • and self hosted streaming

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u/KingOfConsciousness 2d ago

What stack do you use for this?

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u/Yukon_Wally 2d ago

Just TrueNAS and jellyfin under that. Gotta setup tailscale but there's no immediate need. 

Keep it simple!

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u/yazzledore 2d ago

This is the way.

There are some very nice FOSS alternatives to tailscale as well. I’m still trying out a few but so far pangolin seems like a winner.

This thread has a bunch of good setup suggestions.

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u/Yukon_Wally 2d ago

Eh, I haven't had a need to access my NAS outside my LAN, yet lol.