I was going through my Wal-Mart+ subscription plan that I got for free and I saw their offers. One of which was EMeals, that was a 60-day trial. I thought that this was like Blue Apron or other meal delivery services so I thought I’d take a crack at it and hope that it would get me on a path to eat better.

Turns out, it’s just a meal planner. And it’s absurd to me why and how would anyone pay for something when there are countless and countless recipes and meal planners readily available for free. Who’d the fuck would want to pay for a planner? That’s like paying for a calendar app.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    974·
    6 days ago

    I do not get people who still pay for cable tv. My dad pays like 120 dollars a month for it and the programming is horrible, the ads are insane, all the best sports shit is on streaming services now, I do not understand it at all.

    • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
      15·
      6 days ago

      Inertia?
      Or is there some local channel that they like that doesn’t have a youtube presence?

    • aredditimmigrant@endlesstalk.org
      6·
      5 days ago

      How technical is your dad?

      Also honestly. Sometimes it’s a lot nicer to just push a button and have something come on.

      One of the main reasons I use Plex is their random feature. “Wanna watch a syndicated episodic show and don’t care which ep? Press random” vs other streaming services you have to actually choose an episode.

        • aredditimmigrant@endlesstalk.org
          1·
          3 days ago

          So… Iirc you can shuffle all of the episodes in a library … Not sure about cross library. I just have one for TV and one for movies.

          I know you can definitely make a smart playlist for the shows you want to shuffle through and go from there. Like I have a bunch of a few episodic tv shows, added them through regex to a smart playlist and hit shuffle all the time.

        • aredditimmigrant@endlesstalk.org
          1·
          3 days ago

          That’s why. My folks still have cable and pay for HBO. That’s how me and my siblings are able to watch stuff we don’t want to download on max :)

          My dad jokes that hes happy he knows how to turn on his phone … Now his TV since that’s “too complicated”

    • umean2me@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      5 days ago

      I also hate cable, but you mentioned sports as being better on streaming.

      I got into NFL this year and if I wanted access to be able to watch all the games I would also be paying an absurd amount of money. There is the NFL Sunday Ticket which is insanely priced, and then games exclusive to Amazon Prime on Thursdays, plus other games scattered throughout the season that are exclusive to a single streaming platform.

      Assuming your dad’s 120 a month includes access to all NFL games nationwide (it might not and in that case it’s extra bad), he’s paying basically the same as what it would cost to watch an NFL season. Not to mention NFL has ads even on most streaming services now, so it’s not much better in that regard. This is only NFL though as I have no idea about any other sports streaming.