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Clutter-free and cost-effective service subscriptions? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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What are your thoughts on finding a good level of subscriptions for online services, such as storage, photo backup, music streaming, video streaming?

Personal situation: I don't want a ton of subscriptions. I take lots of photos. I listen to music quite a bit. I live in a household that has Android, iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Linux, ... and a Synology NAS that is already filling up with old music and video stuff from before streaming, phone photo backups as well as the photos from the big camera (manually copied so far). I currently pay for two cloud storage thingies and have to free ones, 3/4 are full :P We also have Spotify Family and cut down to only (HBO) Max and public service for video plus sometimes getting something specific for a month or two.

Any experiences or other observations welcome as well!

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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suggest enlarging your current NAS or building one and running something like Open Media Vault, Umbrel, CASA, etc.

For streaming, Kodi is the best value though it's via pirating. But is pirating such a bad thing when these companies steal your data and revoke movies that you purchased? With a debrid service costing $17 for 6mo you can stream basically anything with no slowdowns. Run Kodi via LibreElec on a RPi5.

[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually have Jellyfin running on the NAS and am starting to get back into “in-home streaming” - but I also want to maybe stream a show while traveling.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis 1 points 2 months ago

You can put Kodi on a tablet and stream on the go. Just be sure to pick a lower quality file or some movies can be like 70gb