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   Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 03:29:01 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

   I subscribed to Peacock just to watch Olympics coverage, but good lord. The frequency of commercial breaks is downright disgusting.

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     Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 03:37:46 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

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     • Mike :nixos:

     @codemonkeymike Yea man, remember the consumer mindset of streaming services in the beginning? "I will GLADLY pay you to remove ads..."
     Now my mindset is honestly: I'm either gonna buy the Blu-Rays or pirate the content...

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     Mike :nixos: (codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 03:37:47 JST Mike :nixos:

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     @killyourfm isn't it wild to pay for sowmthhng and still get nonstop ads.

     This is my complaint with the NFL too. Shit should be free with all the ads

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     Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 06:38:40 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

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     • Martin Giger

     @freaktechnik ehhh I don’t need English. I watched the World Cup and 2020 Olympics in Croatian and didn’t hate it :)

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     Martin Giger (freaktechnik@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 06:38:42 JST Martin Giger

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     @killyourfm it's crazy to me how we just get all the streams as part of the public broadcaster here and some other places have a shittier version behind a paywall (oh wait, I pay for the public broadcaster too. But I think that's fine actually). But uh, maybe a VPN is the better investment then? 🤔 (Not sure what for example the beeb does since you'd want decent english broadcasts)

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     Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 13:20:43 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

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     • Mike :nixos:
     • Raptor :gamedev:

     @raptor85 @codemonkeymike YUP. The fragmentation of all the content is one of the worst offenses.

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     Raptor :gamedev: (raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 13:20:45 JST Raptor :gamedev:

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     • Mike :nixos:

     @killyourfm @codemonkeymike I subbed to netflix back in the early days and it was great, a cheap monthly sub basically replaced renting movies and they had practically EVERYTHING.

     These days it's 5x as expensive, they have seasons 3, 7, and 10 of a show (gotta have disney+, hulu, and paramount+ to view ALL the seasons), almost no classic movies or shows (those you gotta rent separately), and on top of all that they also have ADS.

     I stopped streaming and went back to the old ways years ago.