They’ve added commercial supported live channels like many other free services but yeah, it’s lacking compared to others. Pluto.tv is my go-to if I want to throw something on at a family members house or something like that. Owned by the networks, reasonably short ads, completely free. Too bad they didn’t figure that out 10 years ago lol.
Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network
HereIAm@lemmy.world 23 hours agoHow is Plex used if you aren’t using it to stream your self hosted media? I remember seeing channels and such before. Is all the official stuff licensed content? I can’t imagine their offering is very competitive.
kieron115@startrek.website 16 hours ago
HereIAm@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Oh I’ve actually heard of Pluto.tv and watched it somewhere.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
99.9% of the use mine has seen for the past several years has been to stream to my living room TV in the same house. But regardless, what point are you making? It’s commercial software. And btw the $85 I paid years ago to use it forever was more than worth it to me.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
digital cancer
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Here’s a controversial and complex stance, but you may be able to understand it eventually:
Don’t buy it.
I am a proponent of FOSS too but that doesn’t mean anything built for profit is shitty, let alone “cancer”.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
Hey, you paid for them to spy on your media, give them their money’s worth.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m not trying to make a point, I’m just curious how many this impacts and so on. I imagine it will go down similar to Netflix account sharing crackdown; generally viewed unfavourably, but will convert enough users to pay for it to be worth it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Gotcha. We’ll see, I guess.