lol I just love the part where only your viewpoint is valid

Believe it or not, I came in here in good faith hoping to have conversations and learn. I was not prepared for the projected insecurity from so many who are the keepers of the super special knowledge that makes them important people

you and others have convinced me that this instance is toxic and to move elsewhere. I return you to your regularly scheduled bubble.

I think your ephithets proved my point better than I did.

In the end, I asked what alternative people proposed to Biden. There was no response, just personal attacks.

I’m referring specifically to older content. Is there really a reason that Star Trek the Next Generation shouldn’t be in Netflix, for example? Paramount isn’t enough of an offer so they may be losing out on a great deal of passive income.

What’s weird is that I’ve been banned in a couple forums just for trying to understand why everyone is pissed off. Thanks for the info, glad it’s not me.

lol people keep saying this but it’s all bots and trolls when you go look over there

There will be something new and we’ll all become Gen Alpha’s boomers.

Being serious, however, who can predict? We’ll have to be patient and see what happens.

That model may also be dead. Nobody really sees movies anymore, not like before, and nobody wants to wait 6 months for the season to end. That’s very much a 1950s - 2010 model. Not sure what will replace it, but some combination of games and informal content like YouTube/TikTok etc might be where we end up.

Wow. Rhetoric is important. You have to convince people. Sometimes that’s doing it with them.

That’s part of my point. They don’t have to lift a finger. Just let Netflix pay for the storage, the data centers, the bandwidth. Studios will get something out of it for doing literally nothing. But they got greedy and broke the model.

See 10 years ago it was ALL in Netflix and everyone was happy. Studios got to get passive income and we only needed one service. Then the business bros got greedy and decided they needed more money and exclusivity while spending millions to stand up their own inferior services.

lol I was just yesterday saying that I fully expect these to fold and all the content to go back to Netflix where the studios can earn passive income with no more expense than paying their lawyers to write contracts.

So far the browsers all seem to be universal apps, and I’d bet they stay that for many years.

My rule of thumb is that an issue isn’t an issue until it affects at least 10% of the fleet. Before then, it’s a fluke and not worth investigating.

I think you had a fluke. Seems like it’s worked for you since then.

Gotcha

Perhaps the download was corrupted? Like maybe the checksum didn’t match. Did it happen a second time or after you did a force refresh?

Apple MDM. You can lock down a computer in all sorts of ways.

Source: I manage thousands of Macs.

If you have a good functioning IT dept, that laptop was fully configured to their specifications long before you got a hold of it and it certainly happens automatically.

I decided after the person responded to me that I am going to close my Lemmy.ml account and make one here. You are all obviously nice people!

There’s a used media shop down the street and I’m contemplating getting dvd/bluray box sets of my favorites so that I have offline media available.

I’m trying go back to ordering directly from merchants rather than use Amazon. You don’t always have a choice though.

It’s fun to watch people react and move on rather than stop and consider.

My prediction is that it all goes back to Netflix when they decide it’s not worth the time and expense to run their own services. They had a nice passive income thing going on there for many years and can have it again if they just license their IP again.