Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 year agoYes.
Here’s the thing though, for the average plex user (myself included) you’ve already used too many acronyms and words I don’t understand. Plex serves a purpose for a lot of people, people who are even willing to pay for it to be easy.
Kind of reminds me of Netflix before anyone else did streaming. They had so much stuff I stopped sailing.
Yep. Imo now with Plex you are paying for a much simpler and accessible setup. Seems fair enough to me. Lemmy FOSS or die users (every else in this thread seemingly) are not the target audience of Plex but they sure love to complain about it.
I try to use Foss but only when it’s a lateral move. I tried Linux mint. It came close but there were so many little things that just didn’t make sense to me as someone who used windows for the last 25 years. Do I want to use Windows 11? No, especially with everything they’ve been doing to it. But in terms of usability, the sacrifices that I make by using Windows 11 outweigh the extra work, frustration, and time spent trying to figure out Linux (tried 3 different distros too).
I have 3 little kids, a full time job and aging parents. I don’t have hours every day to try and make stuff work.
Well that sucks.
Just put it behind tailscale and use the IP. Doing this for a two years now with weekly anime watch together with my friends. Not elegant but enough.
Yeah, welcome to the easy, fast, cheap conundrum.
If you’re willing to do a bit of learning and asking the community for help if you get a little stuck, you’ve got a free solution, if not, which is perfectly okay mind you, then Plex is your solution and you have to decide how much you’re willing to pay.
I’m going to be going the free solution route, been trying to find a cheap laptop to turn into my server right now. Do you mind if I reach out about it?
Yeah, I have a docker compose yaml script you can baseline of off and help walk you through.
Can’t you just give your IP address to folks and forward the port on your router?
Yes
Or just use tailscale. Much easier.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
No, you don’t need a RP.
You can and should set it up though as it’s a very good convenient feature.
But you can expose Jellyfin directly.