No, to be honest I have complicated feelings about maintaining a media server.
It seems a lot of people maintain one for ideological reasons or otherwise hoard media that they will probably never watch.
There's just too much out there to watch as it is, so I happily bounce between services.
It seems a lot of people maintain one for ideological reasons or otherwise hoard media that they will probably never watch.
There's just too much out there to watch as it is, so I happily bounce between services.
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I live in a small apartment, so I use a repurposed tiny desktop to run backups for my game dev stuff when I'm asleep. My office is the same room as my bedroom, and my normal PC gets hot and loud.
If something I liked from a streaming platform gets taken down, it's a mild bummer for me. That's it.
If I truly want to watch it, I will track down an actual copy. Otherwise, I move on. It's not an existential crisis to vigilantly defend against.
HOWEVER,
It's entirely possible that physical discs may become nonviable. Pre-Zaslav WB would promise a series of animation discs then cancel after the first didn't sell well enough.
- I pay for Netflix for like a couple shows
- Buying those shows digitally is crazy expensive
- Physical media is cheap, but I don't even have a DVD drive. I'd have to rip them. And build at least a small NAS
- ...which will cost like, 10+ years of just keeping Netflix
But I sincerely do not have the time to watch all of this stuff, let alone care that I have access to it indefinitely.
I don't have a media server though and watch stuff on my PC, or phone from a network share, because to build a NAS/media server for me would be like $1000 in just harddrives.