Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/

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[–] spfhaar@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I regret convincing my parents to subscribe to Netflix instead of using Torrent or Emule. Fuck these fucking companies that now cost more than bluerays and broadcast content with crappy quality if you don't have a platform that knows how much you're shitting yourself

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 31 points 1 year ago (11 children)

You can always setup a nice Plex server and give them all the movies they want.

It's not like you can't unsubscribe from Netflix

[–] spfhaar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have to find the time to do it, I had seen jellyfin as a solution, but I also have to find something that acts as a server, my raspberry pi 3B+ is not powerful enough for 1080p+ streaming

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago

If you parents have a standard TV stick or Apple TV their devices support a variety of codecs.

This means that you can "direct stream" content from Plex / Jellyfin with minimal CPU impact.

At 1080p it should at least support ~4 direct streams when it doesn't have to "transcode".

That said, even if it is weak by today's standards it's a good platform to learn the setup on. Then you can move to something else more powerful (but still cheap) once you understand it all.

At least that's how I did it, 3b+ -> Pentium J5040

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I bought a used office PC (with 8 GB of RAM and Intel i5 6th generation) on eBay for less than 100 €. It works really great!

[–] spfhaar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

yes, but singleboard computers take up less space, make less noise and have almost non-existent energy consumption

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