Same as you, I also haven't fully dipped my toes to the world of self-hosting (yet).

1. For non-animation movies/series, I wade through the popular/trending categories or read recommendation from friends, lemmy or, god forbid, reddit. I don't really need to do this lately as my shows backlog is as long as my games backlog.
2. For convenience always. 720p is fine for me.
3. I stream. Unless it is one of my favorites I want to keep.
4. Real-debrid+Stremio.
5. Stremio does it for me. Also for anime, I have Anilist.

It's like how there are mass shooters and then there are sane people with guns. You don't remember the name of the latter because they are the vast majority and comparatively boring than the former.

True for English shows, I had substantially harder time finding non-English shows.

Not OP but I often get 50% off promo for any beverage from Starbucks app.

For what's it worth, I'm glad the shouty ones were leftists because otherwise I wouldn't even give lemmy a chance.

You're not using adblocker?

Edit: Just read the other commenter. Where do you watch shows with your kids? TV or Computer? If it's on Desktop or Laptop it's easy af, but Smart TV less so but not impossible.

For me it's more like:

• Tell other people about all these cool FOSS so people can enjoy them and ditch Big Tech stuff
• Don't tell other people about all these cool FOSS because they might get too popular and Big Tech might notice and do whatever they can to remove competition by any means necessary.

Yeah, but who is Satan's uncle?

Same, for me it's a "what if there's a nifty gameplay tips or worldbuilding lore that I might miss which would make me unable to fully appreciate the game if I skip the tutorial?" kind of thing.

I've done and tinkered with many things in 2023 like most of us here (migrated to lemmy, degoogle, unsubscribed to streaming services, linux, etc). Some things that are less known that I think worth to mention are:

• Using shift+right click to open the full context menu in Windows 11
• Finally set an Address bar shortcut for searching reddit content with Google. No more typing "site:reddit.com..."
• Anilist with TachiyomiJ2K(mobile)+Taiga(desktop)+Mal-Sync(browser extension) for maximum anime/manga tracking automation!
• My only shame in 2023: Creating a Facebook account (anonymous account) for the messenger and local hobby groups. All I can say is Facebook seemed to intentionally obfuscate its setting/option menus because they're all scattered in different pages and just a plain mess. f u zuck

How's grayjay compared to revanced?