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.
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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
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!
Oedipus has entered the chat
Maybe safer to just unplig and plug back in.. I guess
I also would advise against plugging your mom
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Try breaking both of your arms, Iโve heard that works.
Oh no, is this phrase going to follow us here from reddit?
God damnit...
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how is this your problem?
Not interested in learning
Complains constantly
Wants things for free
Doesn't deserve your help in this area.
You wouldn't download a Mom.
I downloaded your mom
You don't have enough bandwidth
I would also download this guys mom
Meanwhile I downloaded your dad
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.
Have you tried getting a better mom?
lol, this is such an capitalistic free market response ๐
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.
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)
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Have you tried setting up plex and then just putting in her requests?
Sounds frustrating to deal with
~~plex~~
Jellyfin
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).
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.
I would probably try setting up a custom browser, either chrome or Firefox, whichever she doesn't use already, set up ublock, and set the homepage to a pirate streaming site. I use bflix.gg, which (usually) has subtitles of all languages for most stuff, but if she's not English speaking there might be better options.
Then just tell her that browser is youtube for movies. It should be easy enough for her to use and there's only one step to remember, open the new browser. You could even name the shortcut youtube movies or something.
Moms only want one thing: they want anything they can think of to just exist.
Maybe you could set her up a plex library or something like that?
Kinoger might be an option?
Feels like a normal streaming site, in German but iirc with language options for the site as well as speech and subtitles.
I'd suggest !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee but you seem down on the idea and we don't have many links there yet.
She doesn't speak english
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.
I'd buy them a Roku, and show them how the global search works.
Easy answer for anything she searches for. It'll either be free, paid, or not on any of the platforms.
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.
Choosing beggar pirate that's also your mom? Oh brother, I do not envy you
Maybe she just enjoys the experience of finding content on YouTube. Kind of like those metal scavengers who go to the beach all day to find a penny or a nickel. Not about the destination it's about the journey. She gets a little adrenaline rush when she finds something nice maybe
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