And I suspect that the number of shows/films they have in their library is inversely proportional to the cost.

Source: Former Netflix member who cut the cord in 2022.

And on the third try, you think you accidentally failed to hit the last key, and so you have to start all over again.

I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

c/dataishorrifyinganddepressing

Perhaps they shouldn’t have driven away a significant number of their most engaged content creators.

It’s because the first time doesn’t always work. I swear, sometimes it doesn’t!

I often do this, but I always hit Ctrl-S before running it again. Shamefully, this probably works about 10% of the time. Does that technically count as changing nothing?

I’d buy it!

I really wouldn’t mind the increased rates/quality scams/etc. if their library wasn’t such rubbish. There was a time when they had so much good stuff that I didn’t have time to watch it all. Now? They have a handful of good shows drowned out by Is It Cake? and other shite.