And people like to forget the artist is the first one screwed out of their work when the corporations get involved.

What would you advise i do? what did you do when starting out?

Bought a VPN.

Anna’s doesn’t have everything. That’s why I’d rather break the DRM of what I have.

MakeMKV for ripping it. You can either buy it or use it free by going to the forums and getting the monthly reg key.

If you then want to reencode, Handbrake. I’ve given up on reencoding my personal collection and bought a couple of large hard drives. But to make sharing easier, might want to reencode to x265 or AV1 to manage the file size.

Also might want to consider a libre drive. It is a Blu-ray/UHD drive that has custom firmware which region unlocks it and helps the ripping process. You can find reputable sellers in the MakeMKV forums.

Yeah, I have that and it was great. However, after they disabled the ability to download, Amazon introduced a new file type, .kfx instead of .amz or whatever. I haven’t got DeDRM to work on those at all, and it looks like you need Windows with some tools to break it.

You wouldn’t be able to play official tournaments or at most hobby shops. Hobby shops are where most people play now.

It’s basically live streaming like if you had YoutubeTV.

IPTV from Z2U. I went with a Trex provider.

What are you afraid she is going to have to learn? Where the apps are? You have to do that with a new Windows install. I find people vastly overestimate the complexity of Linux. The UIs have VASTLY improved. I go to the terminal when I want to, not because I’ve been forced there. Thanks to Steam and their Proton layer, gaming hasn’t been an issue. I think there are too many Linux users out there worried they’ll lose their wizard status if everyone finds out how much easier Linux is vs how it used to be. Or how most perceive it to be.

I’m a Windows Server admin by trade and have been daily driving Linux at home for almost two years now. I am VERY familiar with the Windows UI, and yes more technical than the average person. Linux on the desktop has been very easy. More people should be giving it a shot as Microsoft makes us jump through hoops to do what we want.

Too many MBAs and execs are too focused on the shareholder. They forget you have to take care of the customer first. It doesn’t help we have insane institutional shareholders who reward execs for punishing the customer. It’s a big reason Enshittification is such a big problem today.

Big or small, use a VPN and take them out of the equation.

Look into IPTV. Not sure what the IPTV client situation is on Mac.

I went with Tivimate on my Android box with Trex IPTV service I bought from Z2U.com.

IPTV. I use Trivimate on my Android box.

Technically. But it has been that way for years and I find it useful, so I paid for it.

Reminder that your local library likely carries Blu-rays and CDs.

I went the IPTV route for football season and likely will be rolling that into hockey as well.

For your security we’re going to block your access to FOSS and apps that let you avoid our ads. This is totally not a business decision. Pinky swear.

I haven’t run into any issues with MakeMKV, which I bought years ago. Only issue I ran into was some UHD discs won’t read properly, but that was an issue with my Blu-Ray device. I have a new-ish Pioneer with a firmware flash and it reads everything fine.

One thing to keep in mind is there is no one official arr stack. It is dozens of mix and match services, which leads to the confusion. The very basics are the ability to automatically download movies, TV shows, music, and ebooks, as others have covered. On top of that, there are services that support the core download services. Like to provide VPN to those downloaders, automatic transcoding to other formats, automatic renaming of files and copying to specific folders, or web interface to request new content. And that is a small sample of what you can do.

Pixel phones are inferior to the Nexus phones. Google wanted in on the $1000 phone market and killed the best affordable phone line they ever offered to do it.