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How Much Would You Spend on Streaming Services Per Month?

A PCMag survey of 1,001 US streaming subscribers found that customers would pay an average of $33 per month for all their streaming services combined. From Apple TV+ and Disney+ to HBO Max, there will soon be more apps competing for that budget than ever
The next wave of video streaming services will crest in November with the launches of Disney+ and Apple TV+, and consumers will the faced with the first of many decisions over which apps are worth devoting another another couple bucks each month to streaming content. PCMag recently surveyed 1,001 US consumers who currently use streaming services, the majority of whom said they don't plan on subscribing to any new services, whether Disney and Apple's offerings, HBO Max, or NBCUniversal's forthcoming app. We also polled respondents on how much they'd be willing to pay for streaming content per month, both for an individual service and as a monthly total.

Let's see:
Netflix - $15
Hulu - $13
Disney+ - $4.25
Total = $32.25...

Now that game of thrones is over, I'm not sure I'll ever bother with HBO again, though I could possibly see dumping Netflix for a month, picking up HBO, bing the new show, then reversing it.
Not willing to pay for CBS online - screw that noise!

Just $28 for me, no Disney+. And we use the cheap Hulu option. So I think more like $23.

+10$/month for me for Prime.

I constantly forget about prime, but I have prime for shipping, not because of the shows - I so RARELY watch anything on Amazon.

Same here, we have it already and don't get it for the video, so we don't include it as we don't care.

Prime has good content. I like a lot of their originals. The only thing I don't like is that they lump the shit you have to pay for (rent/buy) in with the included with prime.

I do wish they would make it better to navigate... but I binged two of their series recently, The Boys and Carnival Row, both were phenomenally well done.

@IRJ said:

Also we don't use clustering or load balancing on these servers. Desktop Icons are pushed out to certain people using the IP of the particular server we want them to use. None of the users who use this particular server have reported any issues.

Users let you know when they are having issues? Normally I hear about it two weeks later from their boss.

Man... now I'm hungry for a Garbage plate. Good thing I'll be up in two weeks.

@RojoLoco said:

Case in point: Infused vodkas, started under the new moon, finished under the full moon, awaiting their premiere at the Halloween party Saturday:

Yes you could do this. You may want to check your processor model to make sure it supports virtualization. I think almost all Core 2 Duos did... but there may be one or two skus that did not.

@RojoLoco Man... this is just the oddest/best shirt.

@gjacobse said:

Trying to figure out how I can get one of these for Christmas
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2015/10/28/the-altwork-station-is-an-automated-desk-and-chair-rig-that-feels-like-working-on-a-cloud/

The doesn't look very comfortable to me. Reminds me of a dentist's chair too much.

Bringing up a secondary domain controller is really simple. Windows does most of the work for you by replicating the LDAP database automatically (once the role is installed). Make sure you correctly decommission the physical domain controller. That process should do most of the role assignments automatically as well.

This kid won 400,000$ for this video.

Youtube Video

DNS is generally a good thing to have installed along side a domain controller (I thought it was required as part of the promotion process?)

A Crockpot has to be our favorite thing. Throw something in there in the morning set it on low. You have an amazing meal when you get home.

A good set of non-stick cooking pans is another one every household should have. They cook well and are easy to clean up.

@dafyre said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

Where IPv6 is important is that it allows you to drop NAT and have public addresses, rather than private, for every host on the network.

Personal preference for myself is that I would not drop NAT if my networks used IPv6 internally. I like that very much as a layer of security for protecting my end-user machines from being exposed directly to all the nasties on the public internet.

I don't think your devices will be any more visible on the internet then they were before. Everything would still go through a firewall or router.

Hoping the NTGHQ Offline thread never goes away.

@scottalanmiller said:

Here is an example from today. Guy has very tiny IT needs for his shop. Reasonable, normal considerations included just using a NAS (Synology or ReadyNAS) and running a few extra apps on the NAS - basically treating it as a little server. Or actually putting in a small server, virtualizing of course, and running Linux.

But suddenly weird mash ups of things happened and he started thinking about getting a QNAP, figuring out how to put VMs on it and maybe running Windows or something, in a VM, on a consumer class NAS device for a business.

Sounds like he got advice from his brother-in-law who is "good with computers"

Time to start setting up MangoBunch's...

@RojoLoco said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Key steps to HA involve redundant generators, good fuel supply plan, high availability and very intensive HVAC solutions, that kind of stuff. Your plant is 10 fold as important as your gear.

^^^ These are the very reasons we decided to colo some systems. It was far more cost effective for us, and we got a whole 8x8 cage, so I have a table and chairs, monitor/kbd/mouse onsite. Like an office away from work.

For when you just need to "get away"?

The real question is.... what does @gjacobse want now?

Have you looked into bulk refurbed desktops? You can generally get them at 50-70% off retail. Bump up the RAM and you can generally get 4-5 years out of them if not longer. This would go a long way to standardizing your systems and save some money.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35157782

SpaceX lands a rocket upright!