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minus-squareISOmorph@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75·5 days agoI’ve never heard of anyone approaching the topic to save money. It’s either privacy/ownership or just goofing around with old hardware
minus-squareTelorand@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 days agoI mean, saving subscription costs is one draw for me personally, but at that point it’s a matter of making up my hardware investment cost versus the subscription costs over time. This isn’t an instant money saver, and it never was.
minus-squareacosmichippo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-25 days agoalso: I hate jumping around between apps to figure out what i want to watch. media consolidation is a shitshow and I refuse to give any more money to the industry, especially regressive propaganda machine Fox Corp.
minus-squareTruscape@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 days agoAlso if all of the hardware is recycled that seems like an easy way to avoid paying anything at all
minus-squareSeralth@piefed.seralth.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoIt’s going take me roughly 8 months to break even on the savings from subscription. Assuming I value my time at -10 dollars a month…
I’ve never heard of anyone approaching the topic to save money. It’s either privacy/ownership or just goofing around with old hardware
I mean, saving subscription costs is one draw for me personally, but at that point it’s a matter of making up my hardware investment cost versus the subscription costs over time. This isn’t an instant money saver, and it never was.
also:
I hate jumping around between apps to figure out what i want to watch.
media consolidation is a shitshow and I refuse to give any more money to the industry, especially regressive propaganda machine Fox Corp.
Also if all of the hardware is recycled that seems like an easy way to avoid paying anything at all
It’s going take me roughly 8 months to break even on the savings from subscription.
Assuming I value my time at -10 dollars a month…