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minus-squareTelorand@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·6 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-26 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.
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.