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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • As someone that used to own hundreds of dvds then upgraded to bluray and now have a smaller collection of 4k uhd’s for only movies that i really want to experience to the best that they can be viewed. On the flip side i have inherited my dad’s laserdisc collection which started in the early 90’s but generally looks horrible on a modern tv. They don’t take up much space but i should sell them.
    I also have a server with 50tb of space but forever having drives fail it’s a costly situation so now i generally use stremio or kodi and a realdebrid subscription and stream 4k or 1080 and don’t collect anything anymore.



  • I have a Kobo and use calibre to manage my books. I don’t sync online it’s just plug and remove what I have read and upload my next lot of books that I want to read. My Kobo currently has around 300+ books on it at the moment so I can read whatever I feel like it. Doesn’t help your syncing between different devices but I guess you could us Dropbox or something like that to link up your phone, tablet etc.







  • Deleted my 15 year account and what little posts I had. Joined kbin and lemmy since I don’t know what I was doing. But it also made me think of what other social media and what else I’m using that is governed by corporate overlords. Deleted Twitter and joined Mastodon just to see what is like. I uninstalled Windows 11 and installed Linux Mint on my PC. Now looking for alternatives to Google apps that I use even though I’m on a Google Pixel phone but it’s into it’s 3rd year so it’ll probably die sooner than later. So looking for cloud hosting for photos, spreadsheets etc between my phone and my PC to break away from Google. Anyway moving from Reddit has started a avalanche of introspection of what I’m using. Tldr: No.


  • As one of the top comments said Stremio+RealDebrid is just awesome, install on your phone and cast to your tv or install on lets say Nvidia Shield which is what I do, phone while traveling. Can use your RealDebrid account inside Kodi using The Oath or Seren add ons but I think you will get the same torrents/quality as Stremio in terms of torrents but if one goes down you have a backup of sorts.

    I have a FreeNas server with thousands of dollars worth of hard drives full of linux ISO’s and I don’t even turn it on as I can find everything on Stremio although if you find an obscure doco that only one person intermittently is seeding then downloading the old fashion way is the way to go.

    The only downside I find with using Stremio is audio lipsync issues which drives me a bit crazy. I usually try another torrent and cross my fingers.