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I've never heard of anyone approaching the topic to save money. It's either privacy/ownership or just goofing around with old hardware
It's going take me roughly 8 months to break even on the savings from subscription.
Assuming I value my time at -10 dollars a month...
Also if all of the hardware is recycled that seems like an easy way to avoid paying anything at all
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.