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Re: Plex Accounts Getting Disabled

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

horacemorace wrote: post #9

This is the reason I roll my eyes when millennials talk about setting up “their plex” or “their discord”. It’s not your sandcastle if someone else owns the sandbox.

Discord is the craziest one imo. You have zero control and that has not yet worked out once anywhere on the internet but ok, here we go again.

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Post by loughnane »

politelemon wrote: post #4
4ggr0 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just wanted to write that I'm glad that I'm using Jellyfin at home :) No unnecessary online accounts, just "my" media on my server.

What's a good setup to run jellyfin on. I currently run it on a Linux desktop. I tried running it on a raspberry pi, but it felt like it was struggling. Did I expect too much?

I had it running on a Synology DS218+ (Celeron J3355) with no problems for a long time. Now I've got it running on a framework mainboard (i7-1165G7) with a bunch of other things.

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Post by cqqxo4zV46cp »

horacemorace wrote: post #9

This is the reason I roll my eyes when millennials talk about setting up “their plex” or “their discord”. It’s not your sandcastle if someone else owns the sandbox.

I’d roll my eyes at any grumpy old language pedant that thinks that that I don’t understand how computers works. I’m the lower edge of millennial and I’ve been working as a software developer for ten years. Move on.

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Post by redserk »

cebert wrote: post #5

Whenever I see developments like this to a product, I can’t help but think of Cory Doctorow‘s stages of enshitification ( https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys ).

Why? Bit too early to pull the trigger on declaring this "enshittification". We have yet to see if this was an intentional product decision or a script gone awry.

The term has been eagerly overused to indicate "things I don't like" and is quickly losing it's meaning.

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Post by alsetmusic »

I remember when Apple gave iTunes a streaming feature so you could listen to your music on the go. You could connect to your home computer and access your entire library. That feature was gone almost immediately due to people broadcasting to strangers on the internet. Stupid / greedy / thoughtless people stole that feature from me.

Don't be surprised when acts against corporate interests get slapped. Be surprised when they don't.

Re: Plex Accounts Getting Disabled

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Post by beart »

VLC player paired with a network share does pretty much everything I need to watch local media. I have a Jellyfin instance, and I do like it, but I often find myself falling back to VLC for one reason or another.

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Post by op00to »

If you look at the thread, there’s at least one person who claims to not be taking money for their Plex server that was confronted with a screenshot of them selling access to their Plex server.

Stop selling stuff you don’t have the right to sell, and no one will bat an eye at you.

Re: Plex Accounts Getting Disabled

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Post by op00to »

sphars wrote: post #7

I keep both Plex and Jellyfin installed on my server with the same media. Plex is easier to navigate for my family than Jellyfin (specifically their respective Roku apps). But the way that Plex is pushing their monetization with ads and now rentals, and now shenanigans like this, I feel it's time to fully migrate to Jellyfin. I should learn Roku development so I can contribute to their app...

I’ve never seen an ad on Plex. Never saw anything about rentals.

Re: Plex Accounts Getting Disabled

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Post by freedomben »

politelemon wrote: post #4
4ggr0 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just wanted to write that I'm glad that I'm using Jellyfin at home :) No unnecessary online accounts, just "my" media on my server.

What's a good setup to run jellyfin on. I currently run it on a Linux desktop. I tried running it on a raspberry pi, but it felt like it was struggling. Did I expect too much?

It depends on whether you are willing to trade storage space for compute. The raspberry pi struggles happen when real-time transcoding is taking place. If you change the settings or pre-transcode everything, then it will easily run on the pi.

If you would rather use compute than storage, then a desktop is a good plan. I run my jellyfin on my desktop and use cloudflare tunnel for making it available online as needed. That said, me and my family are the only users of my instance, so access through the internet is not the primary way. I only set that up for when we are traveling.

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