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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m not sure if you’re just surrounded by mentally deficient people for some reason or seriously underestimating them, but pretty much everyone I know can type in a website address lol

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  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They can if forced to, but they never have to do that normally. What you’re telling people to do is make normal people do things they don’t normally do when browsing the web and saying its as easy as making them sign up for a Plex account. Most people have done similar things as the latter, but they only have to type a full URL once or twice in their lifetime.

    That is way beyond the comfort zone of most people I know. The general use case of web browser for normal people is googling the website they want and clicking the link while being blissfully unaware of what a URL is or does.

    This does not mean they are mentally deficient, it just means they spend their mental processing and memory on other things they deem actually important.

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How is someone who can’t manage to copy and paste “www.my-jellyfin-server.com” into the address bar going to figure out where to get a Plex account?

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      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        This thread is comparing the ease of setup between Plex and Jellyfin and having to purchase your own domain and set a bunch of stuff up on your own definitely doesn’t make for an easier install. You might be right about people’s ability to type in a URL, but this definitely illustrates the added difficulty in setting up Jellyfin.

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      • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Tell them to copy and paste that text from their phone to their TV and tell me how it goes. First, you gotta explain what apps are available on whatever TV they’re using, though.

        You also conveniently forget to mention the amount of work you need to setup a domain name that points to your Jellyfin server vs just telling them to sign up for a Plex account and tell you the email address they used.

        Btw, the average person have no trouble signing up for an online account. How do you think people create an account for their social media, email address, and online shopping? Just google Plex and sign up. It’s a familiar process for them, unlike dealing with URLs or VPN apps.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      they only have to type a full URL once or twice in their lifetime.

      We know very different sort of people. Remember that older people wrote the full address as the default, bookmarks and especially googling everything (and “apps”) only became the default later on.

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      • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, but the proportion of people who used computers during that time is much smaller than the generations after, meaning they only represent a very small minority of non-technical computer users.

        Not to mention that my country lagged behind in terms of computer adoption during the 90’s and 00’s compared to developed nations, so it is even less likely for you to find that category of people around me.

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