Jellyfin is hardly a no-brainer. I set it up out of curiosity a few weeks ago and my first question was how do I give access to my friends and family. So I searched, and all of the results were talking about setting up a VPN or a reverse proxy or whatever. Man, I just want to tell my mom “install this app on your tv and log in”, which is exactly what Plex does.
I get that Plex is enshittifying, but pretending Jellyfin is a drop-in replacement is delusional.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The sunken cost of buying a plexpass for 39 dollars 15 years ago.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 days ago
I bought a Plex pass for 90 or something. I officially dropped Plex about 4 months ago now. For 90 bucks I got something like 8 years out of it. I’ll call that a win, I don’t feel like I wasted my money, I don’t feel like I overpayed. Just moving on now.
Condiment2085@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Yeah great perspective. I think we all need to have this perspective more as many tech companies will randomly change their minds on their products.
Kind of like how I got free photo backup on my first two pixels. It was a nice feature, I’m sad it’s gone, but it’s fine.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 days ago
Did they really kill off free photo backup? That’s so incredibly shitty, they even compressed them!
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 days ago
Did they really kill off free photo backup? That’s so incredibly shitty, they even compressed them!
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Same.
jagermo@feddit.org 6 days ago
Plex is easier to run on older NAS systems, but yeah - that was me :) but i switched to jellyfin, finally
Mondez@lemdro.id 6 days ago
Hence the term “sunk cost fallacy”.
nonetheweiser@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I stuck with Emby for way too long for this reason. I spent $50 in 2017. Gotta get my money’s worth no matter how broken their app was.