Some things that make it very annoying to me:
- She complains whenever she can’t find certain movies
- She usually searches using the complete video title in the search bar, it’s usually something like: Movie name - Complete Movie - Dubbed - Pirate Site or Uploader - Genre
- She has a list of saved movie/video titles in a .docx file, where she also writes whether she liked the movie or not. Whenever a YT search shows something she thinks she’ll be interested, she copies the title to the doc.
- Will usually use that same search on Netflix, or continue typing and adding more despite no search results showing already.
- Complains about video/audio quality
- Complains when there’s no dubbed version
- Complains when the “movie” is just a trailer repeating for 1 hour
- Seems to willfully ignore my explanations to why searching for and watching full movies on YT sucks (it’s pirate content on a platform that doesn’t allow piracy)
- Ignores some 🏴☠️ alternatives I’ve set up, because “there’s nothing interesting there”
- “Forgets” anything I teach her about searching and search terms in 5 minutes
To be fair, most of the movies she “wants” to watch aren’t available on any streaming services. Feels like I’m dealing with the world’s worst pirate.
Have you tried turning her off and on again?
This is definitely troubleshooting tip #1 but in this specific case I will advise against turning your mom on!
Maybe safer to just unplig and plug back in… I guess
I also would advise against plugging your mom
The best reply tree of this thread 😆
I agree, it’s a terrible experience. 1/10
Try breaking both of your arms, I’ve heard that works.
Oh no, is this phrase going to follow us here from reddit?
God damnit…
I hope this doesn’t come across as rude, but as someone who has an aunt that behaves VERY similar, I can only say that some people do not want solutions - they want to be mad about something and others to agree with them. Finding easy ways to remove the problem instead of being allowed to complain about it is the opposite of what they expect to achieve.
Not rude at all, and not the first time someone said something along those lines about my mom. I’ve heard the same from other relatives.
Ironically, you came here instead of asklemmy to complain about your mom.
Not looking for a solution, just complaining
Not interested in learning
Complains constantly
Wants things for free
Doesn’t deserve your help in this area.
Have you tried setting up plex and then just putting in her requests?
Sounds frustrating to deal with
That would also be my go-to solution, except she wants hundreds of movies (in which case Plex also makes sense, but more for her than for OP).
plexJellyfin
My friend’s husband does this; he runs a plex server for their family, parents/in-laws, and a brother I think. As the nephew got older he started sending in his requests, too. He also set up an email address just for movie requests and wrote a script to crawl the email inbox and automatically download the top search result. It ended up requiring very little input on his end.
Or set up Overseerr so she can request it herself. If you’re on a fast connection you can go from request to it being in Plex in about five minutes if set to auto approve.
So she’s like my mom who writes complete question phrases on Google and is pissed off that THE google doesn’t know the answer?
Looks like it, my brother from the same yet another mother
She’ll love Google’s AI then. Or hate it with a passion. It’s sometimes very useful or more dumb then the actual search results.
Sounds like mom complains because she likes to complain.
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Maybe you could set her up a plex library or something like that?
So teach her how to better pirate, don’t just plop it in front of her. Leave her an instructional document.
I’ve taught her the same things several times over. I’m not joking or using hyperbole. I’ve had her write down instructions herself about some things, like how to take screenshots and save images (she wrote that down three times, because she threw away the first 2 notebooks) - despite this, she still copies the image from Paint to Word in order to save it.
Is she forgetful in other ways, too? Could be there’s an underlying issue.
Most couldn’t be bothered with your instruction they will just stick to the way they have invented
Not really, she was always very resistant to using computers. The real irony is that nowadays she spends most of her retired free time playing Hidden City and Jewels of Rome, despite me never showing her how to browser MS Store (she installed both from W10’s start menu ads)
Check the Carbon Monoxide levels!
Feels like I’m dealing with the world’s worst pirate.
It is normal to get frustrated by technology you don’t understand. I know a bit about computers, but smartphones confuse and annoy me. Don’t worry too much about it.
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Choosing beggar pirate that’s also your mom? Oh brother, I do not envy you
It’s usually as easy as searching for 1…2…3… :-)
What movies does she want to watch?
Seems to be whatever she finds on YT. Blockbusters, big budget stuff and whatever is on Netflix never catches her attention. She also prefers watching old (1990 and older) movies.
What language?
Brazilian portuguese. But, like I said in the op, not only she ignored alternatives (popcorn time and kodi), she always “forgets” best search practices.
Moms only want one thing: they want anything they can think of to just exist.
If you are happy to self host at her place raspberry pi with the combo: radarr, jellyfin and jellyseerr is what you want. I’m pretty sure the overseer app works with jellyseerr otherwise create icons with the shortcut on her PC. It’s easier than Netflix in my opinion. But I understand if her problem is right here, right now kind of problem, where she doesn’t want to wait for it to show on jellyfin.
