• SirSamuel@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 hours ago

        All good, still looks like geocities had a stroke, still like it

        I did some math. Someone could subscribe to five major streaming services, bundle secondary services, and spend ~$80/mo. They could also lay down $1000 on equipment, set up a home server, spend $5/month on a VPN service, “back up” their physical media, use Jellyfin to stream, and recoup their investment in just over a year.

        Not that I’ve done that

        • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
          2·
          23 minutes ago

          If you’re willing to deal with ancient, low end tech, you can spend way less than $1000. I’ve been asking friends and family to give me their e-junk for over a decade, and while I do wind up taking a lot of it to an actual recycler, I have several busted up machines that together can do everything I need. Plus they give me some redundancy when I inevitably mess one of them up by accident.

          It’s kinda like using docker, but way less energy efficient! The amount I would be spending on subscriptions is a lot more than the bump to my power bill, though.

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    This makes me wonder just how many copyrighted files the average person has illegally downloaded. There’s about 1,300 NES games and I think the total file size of all them together is about half a gigabyte for example. I feel like it wouldn’t be too hard for a casual data hoarder to have 100,000 files copyrighted files.