Streaming services of any kind. I’ve got a jellyfin server now that has everything I need.
It was fine when they were $5 a month, but this $20 a month bullshit is insane. And what do you mean I can’t share one account with the family if we’re not on the same network, get real.
My family will rotate Steaming services. We sub for a month or two when we wanna see a show or something, then cancel in favor of something else.
Do you have any information that could help me understand how to self-host my own music streaming using jellyfin? I’ve been meaning to learn this as I’m over Apple’s last increase.
If you only want to stream music you might be better off setting up Navidrome. !selfhosted@lemmy.world is a good place to look for advice on this stuff.
You bet! If you only need to get it working on your home network then it’s really easy. The Jellyfin website has great documentation on the process and there are also great YouTube videos as well. It’s pretty much download the program and tell it where to look for the files, then visit the localhost link it gives you and bam you’re golden.
If you also want to be able to access it from outside of your home network then things get can get a bit tricky and you will need to set up a reverse proxy of some kind (Caddy, Nginx, Pangolin, etc).
Or tailscale to ease things, really easy to setup, only caveat is that devices that will access the server must also be on the tailscale “network”
Thank you so much! I should have just looked into it myself but it felt daunting as I’m new to it all but really want to own my own data and media again.
PC parts
Yeah, I think the only new part my pc sees between 2025-??? is the case.
You’re lucky to have kinda the opposite of my situation.
I used a second hand office machine with a low power graphics card added, because that came out quite cheap. Until about 2 years ago, when I saw that really good looking cases, with the glass and LEDs and everything, are quite affordable now, got one for 60 bucks, I think.
The problem was that that office machine was not made to be upgradeable. Power supply that delivered pretty much exactly what the current parts needed and no more, with custom connectors to the mainboard.
So I thought ok, I do it in steps, after all that’s the whole point that that’s possible. Start by getting a nice modern bequiet PSU, and finding a more standard motherboard, that fit with my CPU and RAM. In some obscure webshop no less, because stuff is old, I’m working with DDR2 here.
And the plan was that later I would look at upgrading motherboard+CPU+RAM, because I’d have to do those together.
And then the data centers happened.
I’m just lucky that the old machine was a beast for its time - the back then impressive 16GB RAM are still decent now. Battlefield the WW1 one ran fine, that game where you upgrade your jeep was too laggy - gotta be a bit more selective about what I run now, because my upgrade plans are on ice until we storm the data centers.
Oh, I need new cpu/motherboard/ram, I just can’t afford that. It’s not ddr2 old, but I have been running out of ram.
I want to upgrade, but i can at least comfortably play every game that is out so I can eait.
The assumption is that prices will come down again. I suspect not :(
Prices could come down during the upcoming crash of the economy. Trouble is, that means consumers won’t have money, and billionaires will buy it all up on the cheap.
Soda. Wtf are they even thinking at this point. Hell, I ran into a Dollar General to get carbonated water the other day and the only product they had was $9. For carbonated. Water. GTFO
You can pick up a used ball keg, probs $25-30, a cheap regulator, some tubing and a carbonating cap (you can skip the carbonating cap, which last I looked is some $25, just hook the CO2 line to the dip tube, it’ll take longer to reach carbonation saturation, but it works fine), and a hand faucet for $1 and rent a CO2 tank (last time I filled a 5lb cylinder it was $30 which includes the cylinder) and make gallons of the stuff for decreasing spend.
Upfront cost is moderately high, yes thats true, but the more you use it the less it costs per gallon. And no plastic bottles, no questionable water source, no shipping pollution. You just have on demand carbonated water. If you add fruit puree, you can make “Italian soda”, or you can buy the soda syrup businesses and such use if you want, though you’ll want something in a pump bottle and not a box that hooks to a big system…
One 5lb tank of co2 is enough for 5-10 batches, depending how heavily carbonated you like, and each batch is 5 gallons, assuming a standard 1/8 barrel keg, so the math is pretty appealing if carbonated water is a thing you like.
Yep, I’ve altered a decade old Sodastream to use a 20 lb Co2 canister. This is the way.
You can also get a soda siphon that takes co2 cartridges. I’m sure it’s more expensive but takes less space. Also you can feel all cool and retro.
Those co2 cartridges are like $30 for 20 16-gram charges. I have them for my ukeg (pressurized growler). They keep 2 gallons of beer pressurized and dispense it, but I’d assume they are only enough for about 2 liter to carbonate from still. So roughly 10 gallons for $30 vs 25-50 gallons for about the same price (only considering ongoing CO2 costs) with the keg setup.
So you can, yeah, but it’s substantially more expensive in the long run, and a 5 gallon keg plus everything else really doesn’t take up a lot of space. They are tall and narrow, and you need to put the soda syphon thing somewhere, too, and I assume that’s taking precious counter space, rather than sitting in a dead space corner behind a door, or tucked into a closet or something.
Really it’s just a matter of how much you’ll use. If you don’t go through 5 gallons of carbonated water in a reasonable timeframe, like monthly so you can clean everything out, it doesn’t really pay to make a big batch. You can get a 2.5 gallon keg if you want a smaller batch, but those are tough to source used and are thus pricier (place I’ve bought from before has them for $120, about the same price as a full-size keg of the same brand)
Italian what?!!
Please tell me more, I have tried lots of things in carbonated water (lemon or cucumber is good) but never fruit puree!
The way we made it at the place I worked was to puree fruit, then reduce it a bit over heat (no added sugar), then put like 2tbsp or so over ice and topped off with the carbonated water.
So it’ll only really work well with flavors that don’t degrade in heat, but you may also have luck with just straight pureed fruits like watermelon, not super sure how that’d turn out.
You can also use fruit syrups that you buy or make yourself, tons of recipes out there.
Thanks!
Totally. I will only buy soda when it’s on sale for half off. Otherwise it’s like $1 per can and that’s too damn much.
soda is overpriced everywhere, people also stopped drinking them for the most part. i think some places have added tax too. i mostly drink sparkling water with flavours, of different brands. i usually dont mind stevia infused ones much. even in discount stores they are expensive asf. sparkling water is cheap compared to soda, like most of the time its half the price.
Sparkling water with flavours is soda with a different name, friend. And it used to cost less around me, but now it’s the same price as any other soda. We don’t have a special soda tax here.
Haha what, 1.5 L of store brand soda water is roughly 30 US cents here, and I live in an expensive country.
Soda at the movie theater near me costs $11 now. The entire place is also falling apart and looks like it’s on the verge of bankruptsy even though it’s one of the most well-known locations.
Beef, almost completely.
Red meat in general. Even pork has gotten out of hand.
My family is eating poultry two or three nights per week and entirely vegetarian the rest of the week just to cut spending.
Costco prices still seem reasonable compared to what I’m used to. regular grocery store prices for meat in any form are fucked. the prices they have on tiny hams or pre-packaged sliced meat are fucked.
Pork is still decent in my area. The most expensive stuff has gone up but the cheap stuff hasn’t. Beef it’s across the board.
red meat is super expensive, especially most of them(the good meats) tend to be imported.
Beef is price fixed in an illegal trust.
Pizza. Getting pizza for the family shouldn’t cost over $70. Hell, eating out and fast food are exorbitantly expensive.
And yet the workers are still making shit wages. It’s absurd.
Welcome to capitalism.
Maybe you should tip more. /s
I hate this comment so much 🥲
I now just buy the large ready-to-bake supreme pizza at Aldi and just enhance it by adding mozarella and other toppings at home. $8 plus maybe $2 worth of extra stuff I put on it. Just like sushi, I really can’t justify paying too much for it when eating out.
Costco pizza is legit too
You mean from their food court, or their Kirkland brand freezer ones? I have wanted to try the food court ones, but if I get it home and it’s not good then I’m both frustrated and need to find something else to eat, so I always pass it up since I don’t know if it’s good or not…
The food court one. It’s $10. What have you got to lose other than $10?
For me, time, effort, and of course the $10. I’m disabled so take a standard costco run, make it take 4x as long and physically difficult. Add taking a gamble on dinner as I leave and it’s a make-or-break decision.
I’ll have to give it a go the next time I’m there. I’ve had their ice cream and it’s very good, but that’s not a meal :p
if you’re worried about it, just buy a slice.
they’re weird so they slice it into 6 but that makes it a huuuge slice. well well well worth the $2 imo, it’s certainly a loss leader for them (meaning the cost for them to make it is more than they charge you for it)
legitimately the best pizza I had in the years I spent living in Georgia.
the food court is a loss leader to get people to shop in the store, it works.
Ooh, I didn’t know you could get it by the slice. Nice!
remember the combo supreme.
Just get a slice next time you go through. Its $2, and you get a snack + qa. Imo, better than a lot of dedicated pizza shops, and cheaper
I didn’t know they sold individual slices, I only saw people with full pies or hot dogs. I’ll definitely grab one next time :D
The Motor City Pizza (if they sell at your Costco) in the frozen aisle is good too if you like deep dish. It’s too meaty for my taste, but will do the trick in a pinch.
Yeah, that’s the only frozen pizza that I like. It takes up a good chunk of the freezer for me though.
the freshly made one is so-so, not great but for its prices its pretty good.
Yet people will pay 10 times the cost of the ingredients to have food delivered to them cold and half-eaten.
I’ve paid $70 for the pleasure of driving and picking up myself. Shit’s ridiculous.
Oh god for me it was frozen pizza. I fucking love frozen pizza as an easy dinner night and used to be able to find Dr Oetkers for $4 a pizza. That shit is $13 now.
It kills me cause I still love it but I won’t buy it :(
Pizza in my corner of the world is still a reasonable price. First, there’s cheap but delicious Little Caesars – that’s a go-to that I’m not at all embarrassed to admit. Then my local pizza shop can get me a XL pie and cheesy bread sticks for less than $20 out the door. My family of three always has leftovers from that for lunch the next day for someone but not everyone.
Any of the bougy “wood fired” blah blah blah boutique pizza grift stills costs a fortune here. But my little local pizza shop is a good NYC style slice, with normal pizza shop ingredients.
First, there’s cheap but delicious Little Caesars
This is how I know you are full of it
Dude, if you were honest with yourself and the world, you’d agree.
It’s not BAD. I don’t mind it for the price. I would never claim that it’s “delicious” either though. I’m from Detroit too. The Little Caesar’s pizza at Little Caesar’s Arena hits different. Albeit it’s $30 more.
I, too, am originally from the Metro Detroit area. My Metro Detroit area chain pizza takes: Hungry Howies used to be better, I think (or I’m suffering rose colored hindsight). Jet’s Pizza is still pretty good. Dominoes was never really good and despite their commercials, they’ve not gotten much better.
Hot take: Buddy’s Pizza is overrated greasy dog shit.
I now live out of state, but I visit my family in SE Michigan every other month or so. I have a preference for Coney’s too.
Best Detroit Style: Cloverleaf with a close second being green lantern.
Best Non-Detroit Style: Supino’s in Eastern Market.
Best Coney: Duly’s, but honestly National Coney Island just feels right.
Wtf? That’s so fricking much…
try costco pizza. 9.99. costco loves you.
A lot of my grocery stores have pizza dough ready to go thats about $2.50 and can be frozen. So if you buy your ingredients and a pizza stone, you can have some REALLY good pizza any time.
I like to put the sauce on, then toast the crust for about 4-5mins before putting the rest on. Keeps the crust crispy.
Also, a dough ball isnt as hard to fit in the fridge.
Raspberry PIs.
I have three that I purchased prior to the insanity.
I might sell one and buy yacht.
I just looked them up, that’s crazy they’re that expensive now.
I’m going to go on a rant here, but I was disappointed in the launch of the Pi 5 and even more frustrated at the lack of pushback by the tech community.
I’m forgetting the details now, but it launched much later than it was supposed to (they used covid as an excuse, but I’m not sure). That’s not the issue; the issue is that it was only slightly more powerful than the Pi 4.
Given that the Pi 5 was launched 4 years later, it should have been more powerful. But considering it wasn’t, it meant they were using cheaper silicon.
But the real kicker is that I think it had a $10 (like a 25%) price hike.
So more expensive for marginally better power…screw that.
That along with the locked down nature of arm, I was done with the company. Especially considering the strides x86 has made in low power applications.
It just sucks can’t afford anything right now.
I have a super old model with such old connections it’s not even useful for anything.
Honestly as much as possible I have just checked out of consumerism.
This, mostly what I buy are things that save me from needing to buy things. Tools, server hardware, looking for a food dehydrator for my garden, etc. I can’t stand giving any money to a corp that backed fascism so I avoid them at all costs.
Quality tools are such a good investment. They last close to a lifetime, and save many multiples of their pricetag.
Nothing made me care so little about buying things than the corporations desperate want for me to buy them.
New games? Eh I’ll replay mass effect or skyrim. New hardware (before the crisis), looks real nice, don’t think I need it. The more they pushed me to buy the less I cared. If they all started chilling out maybe I’d get back into it, but doesn’t look like it.
Hard drives. I have a movie hobby and that takes a lot of storage and well, storage now is 3-5 times more expensive than not two years ago and I can’t afford it anymore.
But on the flip side, people can now finally nudify my daughter, so that is totally worth it!
Fuck everything about AI.
RAM and storage for computers.
Not only has shit gotten expensive, I got laid off from a good paying job and could only land a middling salary. I used to buy more varied food. I’d order delivery when I had guests over. I’d buy seltzer.
No more. Fuck em. If they don’t want to pay me I’ll keep my spend to a minimum.
Yes! I view saving money as a fuck-em strategy for self preservation.
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McDonalds. It used to at least be cheap. Now it’s both expensive and still tastes bad.
I have a small garden for a hobby and mental health. I spent $30 on 2 bags of fucking DIRT yesterday. What am I doing? Dirt was $30!?!? I guess I can’t even afford dirt anymore. 😭
When someone says something is dirt cheap, I’ll remember this and temper my expectations haha
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but trees grow in money. - Abraham Lincoln
Are you composting? You need to compost. Make your own dirt, that’s better than what they sell anyway.
Yes, but I ran out and needed a bit more. Other than a few seed packs to kick off the Spring that was the first gardening purchase this year. It just shocked me how much freaking dirt is.
You’re not paying for the dirt, you’re paying for the weight of the dirt. Transportation is expensive now.
I knew that, but I wasn’t really thinking of it that way, good point. It’s heavy and bulky, so yeah, makes sense.
Those 15~25kg bags from the garden centre are an order of magnitude more expensive than loose dirt from a transport or earthworks depot.
im very fond of succulents, but i just dont have the time to research all of them. not the “ornamentals” you see in peoples front yards.
Having a few small succulents on a desk is underrated. I have a half height bookshelf thing up against the big window where my computer desk is and I have a whole row of plants there to get sunlight. Cactus, pothos, succulents, little flowers and random plants I am rooting to eventually plant, just whatever.
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Any streaming service.
It’s not even about the money specifically, if that’s what it actually cost or if it was going to a good place. It’s the greed of constantly trying to find that line on how hard they can squeeze and at what price point people will keep taking it.
McDonald’s. It used to be cheap.
they shrinkflationed it so much people stopped buying, also people started eating healthy cutting in thier profits. and they have closed franchises near me, that have been here decades.
Wendy’s too
It’s also cheap used.
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everything but the basic food for survival.
