Ahhhh I get ya now, sorry.

Yeah with a free account I think you can still get low quality MP3s, not worth it.

Deemix still works for me.

Iä!

I’m glad someone enjoyed the reference. :)

It’s a fair cop.

I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.

gasp

I can’t believe you’ve done this.

I’m upvoting you because you used a question mark, and deserve to be rewarded for it.

To answer your question, my method is Usenet, and I am very happy. It does require spending a little money to get a good indexer and Usenet provider.

♫ Don’t call it a comeback ♫

Plex’s specialty audio client Plexamp is pretty good if you want to make your own “radio stations.” And if you have a Plex Pass, the server does “sonic analysis” of each track so it can do a good job of playing related music in its smart playlists.

Of course, Plex Pass ain’t free, but if you are in it for the long haul the lifetime purchase may be worth it.

(Everyone’s worried about Plex’s future right now but I would be surprised if they killed self-hosting. That’s another topic though.)

I partially agree.

Reference books, with high-resolution images and diagrams, or subjects that invite constant page flipping, are great as physical objects. Most other books I prefer to have digitally. I do not need to have an object full of short stories or history lessons taking up space in my home.

I do like the feel of books and the look of a bookcase… But not as much as I like having that space for other things.

Everyone finds their own path in this, there are no wrong answers.

I have an 1813+ and it’s also been a champ. Unless the computer inside it dies, I will continue to use it indefinitely.

However, I have offloaded all server duties other than storage to other devices. I do not ask my Syno to run Plex or any other services else besides DNS. As long as those SMB shares stay up, it’s doing what it needs to do. And gigabit will be fast enough for a long time to come.

At the time I posted that I did not see it on Planet, which I also use, and it’s still not there. I found it on Slug.

I just checked abnzb and they don’t have it either.

(Planet is good and it is my primary because I bought lifetime, but Slug has been really great when Planet doesn’t have something.)

Thanks to OP for mentioning this! The old shows were fantastic.

I see the new shows on my Usenet indexer as Connections season 4, WEB-DL.

I was looking into those services too, thanks for letting me know this one worked for you!

Handy site, bookmarked. I don’t use Telegram because of the phone number requirement, but it’s good to keep track of what it has.

Whoa, I thought that was only for Win 11. Cool, thanks!

Looks like a good option, unfortunately it would not run for me on an Android emulator in Windows. (LDPlayer 5)

For now I am not messing with my extensions to prevent the YT message. I found that the extension Kill Sticky, which eliminates all kinds of elements that cover content, blows away the popup. So, I just dismiss the message with one click when it comes up.

Eventually the adblocker situation will improve, I hope, but for now doing it this way is only a minor inconvenience.

Edit to add: Well I got the “countdown” popup, and you can certainly dodge it by blowing it away with a tool that deletes overlays… but the countdown continues and then it does block the content in a new way. Other people posted that accepting the ads once resets the countdown, this did not work for me. I ended up installing my own Invidious instance since I have a Linux box on my LAN but I look forward to better anti-anti-adblock extensions.

SmartTube on Android TV still works great.