I like Plex.

When I bought my Plex lifetime pass I saw it as an investment. So far, it’s paid off handsomely.

I’m still getting great experiences, able to access it from anywhere in the world, on basically any device, seamlessly and simply.

I get it that the jellyfin community is really excited about their thing - I just am not.

I’ve run jellyfin, it was kind of cool I guess, but there was nothing compelling about it. So I uninstalled it. What is jellyfin’s “must have” feature, anyway?

I wouldn’t go out and build a new car when I’m perfectly happy with my 10-year old sedan. If you’re expecting me to go through that just because the new ones cost more than I spent years ago, you’re insane. I wouldn’t go and re paint my house just because the old company now charges new customers more for their paint.

I paid for it, it works well. There’s no reason (except all the FUD I keep seeing on lemmy,) to even think about dismantling and recreating it with something new.

Keep building your dream tool Jellyfin people - Godspeed, but your community should target acquiring net-new users instead of trying to scare and poach happy users away from what they already have.

Plex still costs the same to me. Lifetime pass means no price hike, and it “just works.”

I don’t think I said anything about Infinity. Tell me one thing which is truly infinite… Greed may be close.

Are you saying that increasing income for the same work can’t lead to inflation? Or that businesses aren’t opportunistic and interested in maximizing revenue?

They will charge what the market will bear… and the market will suddenly be able to bear just a little bit more 🤷‍♂️

That’s an interesting idea though inflation often doesn’t match affordability of consumer goods. Saw a different thread recently where that was discussed - inflation gets measured on commodities, not the end products people actually buy. Explaining why some products can easily cost 150-200% more when inflation itself goes up just a little. Plus 70% of all statistics are made up, you know

Raise the bar and suddenly everything else gets more expensive as fatcats try to capture all that new discretionary income that the poor have…

Don’t normalize automated driving enforcement, ALPRs and police surveillance tech. I get the spirit of this story that the watchers should be held accountable, but when the electric eye is on us we’re all criminals. The surveillance state needs to die

The assumption that the Democrats aren’t fascist is why the cycle remains unbroken

They’re all corrupt. Just ask the dead Palestinians

Ok

+1 for SA…

Other Guys

Yeah that’s what’s stopped me…I used to trip the light fantastic, but anymore, the thought of ego death isn’t liberating, and as I’ve gotten older my background anxiety (set) seems to only go in one direction. Kids, House, work, etc… it’s a little late for me to tune out and drop out

But I’m very afraid of exposing the server to the internet and it being hacked or such.

I see this sentiment a lot… and I don’t get it.

Your server is going to be secure almost by default. Add the firewall and only open the ports you actually serve, and the majority of your work is done.

But if you follow a decent hardening guide you’ll find many of those other little ways people can exploit the services you do leave open, and you’ll lock those down too.

Then at that point, you have dealt with 99.99% of the script kiddie / bot threats that will ever find you.

What is the source of the fear when regular Joe’s discounts themselves and say no I won’t expose my hardware? You know the cloud is just someone else’s computer, right?

I’ve been self hosting a publicly exposed domain which serves http, mail, etc for literally more than a decade. My logs are filled with background noise but my stuff is fine.

No tail scale, no cloud flare, my cloud is mine

Moral of my story - Don’t be scared, try to be smart and keep your stuff updated via automation

Paulaner’s “Maß” just got even bigger and is available to go

Right? The real irony is that those who are paid to enforce the law, and who’re sworn to uphold it, feel they’re above it - beyond reproach.

The system is sick with apathy and outright corruption.

We must save ourselves

I hate the way this is getting it twisted.

Just because your signal is misinterpreted does not mean you’ve waived your rights. It means their system and it’s use of citizen’s data is flawed and violates the law.

I used to bullseye womp rats in my t-16 back home

Just aim for the exhaust ports!

RAM manufacturers have a history of colluding to drive up prices - look up their anti trust legal trouble in the late 90s / early 2000s. AI is merely a convenient excuse for straight up gouging…

Hard drives are a similar story.

These companies have no incentive to radically increase production - the incentive is for them to squeeze out smaller competitors, and engage in price fixing and keep profits high.

The most magnificent, strongest, and healthiest economy… It’s really the best, you can’t do any better and we’re doing it. We’re really doing great work with it

Seems like a good use case for usenet

I blocked the community 🤷‍♂️