I don’t agree with everything he does, but he’s right more than he’s wrong and I also have no idea how he walks around with balls the size of watermelons. You GO Louis.

Yeah, that makes my heart sad, but my tivo went out in the trash before 2010.

HDMI copy + comskip still exists, though.

I don’t think they were talking about TV :)

But yeah, I used to export shows from my Tivo, decrypt them, run them through comskip, re-encode to divx them with handbrake and store them on cds :)

Most 30m shows had at least 7-8 minutes of commercials. Some cartoons had 2 shows in a 30m timeslot, commercials up to the 1m mark, 10m of show, commercial break to the next show, 6-7m of ads, ran up to 2-3 mins before the half our and had another commercial or three shove in the outro.

Plex is pumping the gas on going down the drain faster than netflix, netflix just has a head start

How? What is hard to navigate in Plex?

That last ui update was a open abomination and every plex forum out there was all over it, you can’t hide that by saying nuhhahhhh

Since you’re so enamored with plex and I’m quite versed on it, Let’s talk about the horrors of plex

They are collecting data on your and your friends, what you’re watching and what media you have. If the country or state you live and ever decide to go after pirates, they will absolutely hand that data over to whatever state wants it for a song.

Using plex is selling your self and your family out.

They have consistently removed features that people loved and used to focus on delivering you ad content and enshittifying the average experience until they pay. And how much are you paying to watch your own content? What other services could you be spending that on?

I assume you don’t know you can customize your home screen and menus? You can only have your own content showing if you want.

I assume you’re either shill for the company or an outright PR plant, that last ui change was pushed to put their content first. that’s BS. I had my stuff customized, I disabled their crap, they undid it again. My family had to have me go and dig through those tiny top menus on roku to find my own shares. The average person watching my stuff complained to me that i put ads in my stuff. that’s not by fucking accident, it’s a business decision to give me and mine worse content so they can make an extra buck off me. Every change they make is company first, every requrest we make is forums for user helpful change is years old.

The whole company is absolutely horrible and selfish.

I absolutely can. It has only improved since I’ve been using it, which is from the very start.

How about give me examples instead of just shilling. The people here are owed the truth, not your company first attitude.

nice argument you place there. meet my blocklist

Wait, you’re that same guy just shilling for plex aren’t you?

Oh my, go check that post history people, they’re either a PR plant or just trolling

Their entire infrastructure required to do that proxy and caching is at most 10k a month. Thats a couple thousand users.

What you’re actually paying for is their research and development of all that add ridden content they’re trying to shove down your throat. Then selling your data, and selling you and your watchers ads.

That’s some really expensive peanuts you’re suggesting

TBF, that is actually something claude would be fine at walking them through, Tailscale would be 15 minutes

/model opus

write a script that RO dumps my production datastores 1gb at a time

use this script and review all my production data and look for cost savings.

just ssh home for god sakes

I’m no apple fan, but I will note that their Tight AF control over the apps nets them a very very small power draw and ram footprint. I don’t think they’re pushing safari because they don’t want you to have a choice, I think it’s control over their own perf that they’re looking for in this case

It’s been a decade. That should be in JF by now.

Reverse proxy doesn’t fix their unprotected endpoints. It doesn’t give their clients 2fa, it doesn’t make their search work reasonably well or their music client be able to preload the next song.

They’re kind of stuck in a rut and are down to basic maintenance for releases

You can do all that on JF. Apps are def available on most things.

If you really wanted to try to complain about it, you should complain about security, search speed and subtitle support.

That’s all correct, but… we aren’t absolutely in the clear. JF could absolutely be forked, DB changes enacted, security added, but you also need all those client devs to come along.

It’s not quite like most Foss where a couple people could jump in and do a better job, JF has a LOT of moving parts supported by a number of individuals.

Neat idea, they don’t interfere with each other. Run both so that when plex finally fucks us over, we just stop using it.

highly recommend getting a pi or media computer

Been looking at this for years, Fam is absolutely refusing to use a keyboard in the living room. They’ll watch on their phones first. I can’t find a clear, easy solution to run a quality remote on a SFF pc. It’s like the decades old mediacenter hole that never gets filled.

Retailers don’t, but those $300 60" TVs cost manufacturers more than that in parts and shipping. They are 100% making up for it in LTV from your data, that’s why some are trying to make it impossible not to use them when not connected to the internet.

You can’t say their service hasn’t gotten worse though :)

I paid $75 USD, but they took my plugins, (pour one out for youtube on plex for my DanTDM obsessed kid back in the day) made my interface hard to navigate, try constantly to shove their own content down my (and my users) throats. Hey, remember when you used to have that sync feature that kept you up to date with a selection of titles, then you could use the client on your phone to serve to other phones even offline, god that was awesome with kids on vacation.

It certainly doesn’t cost what they’re charging. They have a cache, a relay and an auth service. I’ll grant them some more allowance for an active security team. They’ve wasted manyears on features nobody wants and have eliminated any feature that costs them any amount of money to maintain if they can’t make money off it. (sync, client serve, yada yada)

nahh, next is age verification :)