I was trying to change my primary YouTube/Google account while still holding onto my Movies & TV purchases.

  1. You can’t change the email address associated with your YouTube account or Google Play Movies & TV purchases.
  2. You can’t transfer your purchases to a new Google account.
  3. There is a way to create a Google Play family account, but it’s so buried and un-obvious that it takes search engine research to accidentally discover that this is an option.
  4. Once you create your family account, apparently some purchases can’t be shared due to how they were paid for years ago.
  5. When you try to share many stated-as-“eligible” purchases with the family by using the toggle, it errors, and a refresh shows that it never shared. I used Firefox, Edge, no VPN, and no adblocker. Tons of attempts. Nothing. No fix.
  6. Google has no proper support channel.
  7. If you try to remove the family account and host it under the Google account that owns all the purchases in hopes that they will now work, you will discover that none of the accounts can join a family plan again for 12 fucking months.

Lesson: Don’t ever buy your shit through Google Play. Put your pirate hat on.

      • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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        If you’re interested in cost-effectiveness, hold out for the deals on SaveMyServer. I ended up with a 48TB Dell R720xd for like $500 delivered. 36TB usable in a RAID5 is nothing to sneeze at, plus it’s an amazing chassis for, say, GPU accelerated transcode.

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            I don’t run Raid, but the idea is that you can setup a computer specially for storing your content.

            For streaming Ssd will be very expensive. You can get a huge mechanical hdd for similar costs.

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              I don’t need to keep a ton of movies and shows, but I do need to double-back-up my work. I lost two HDDs in the past and I now always back up “online”. At first it was Google, but now I have a NAS with a primary SSD and a backup SSD. I will never buy a HDD again.

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                The thing with hdds is that when they fail, if you check regularly, you can recover a lot of your data if not all the data from it.

                When an ssd fails, it’s all gone instantly.

                I still rely on hdd for long term storage.

                Additionally hdds are better for backups that are not regularly connected. The ssd can lose charge over time and data can be lost.

                With that being said, I also have important work data and it is duplicated on multiple types of drives in multiple places.

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                  Maybe. But since I store all my work on my NAS and none of it on my PC and laptop anymore, I prefer the speeds of SSD and the automatic backup from storage SSD to second SSD that I do. My desktop and laptop SSDs are only used for the OS, software, and installed games now.

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                Im also trying to stick with SSDs, but many of them died. Backup is needed for both

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                If you can afford it, go for it, but having HDD fail isn’t a great reason to never buy HDDs again (SSDs fail too).

                RAID is a way of pooling multiple HDDs so that even if one fails, you can still access your data.

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            1 year ago

            Everyone starts somewhere. This was the start for many of us. The myriad self-hosted information resources are very helpful.

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          Cool tip. Would love to score something like that. Wanna get past a simple nas with no hardware encoding.

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      You don’t own anything if it’s hosted in the cloud.

      Unless you own the cloud. Self hosting should be made as ubiquitous as linux distros.