Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff

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• gradual@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plex has always been shilled hard for useful idiots with more money than sense.

  Like, free streaming services are right there. Why overcomplicate things just so you can fit in with other losers on the internet?

  I swear, so many of you are leaning on each other without realizing none of you have a clue what’s going on.

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  • daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s relatively inexpensive and makes life much easier for people who are not tech savvy. Your position is that of an incredibly egoistic person that never had to help an older relative or dealt with an adult who doesn’t have time for random bs during an hour or so of downtime most people get in a day.

    If spending hours trying to figure out which “free” streaming service had not gotten shot down today and magically has the content you want is worth less to you than a one time payment of a few bucks to plex, then you really don’t value your time.

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• Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have been really happy with hosting my stuff via Emby even with my friend’s library on Plex. I have found the media recognition and identification system in Emby to be much better/easier to use.

  While the music player in Emby is nowhere near as good as plexamp. I mostly store a local copy of my music on my phone anyways so it is not really an issue. I am going to start playing with navidrome when I get time but a one directional sync with syncthing fromy server to my phone would also work for my needs.

  The Emby app on android tv is decent but not flashy and does not have streaming content by default, it is fully functional as a media player for library files.

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• x4740N@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That plex thread is a shitshow

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• RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used plex like a decade ago is it still the only decent option for gile share streaming?

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never used plex. Finally got around to installing Jellyfin. Very happy with it.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is Jellyfin and also a paid fork of Jellyfin, forgot what it’s called, but Jellyfin is good enough imo

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    • firewallfail@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jellyfin is a fork of emby. I’m not sure the state of it now but when I chose jellyfin it had most of the emby paid features and from a quick glance the UI hasn’t improved much while jellyfin has gotten a lot better.

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hence why you should never trust proprietary software (or even hardware if you wish)

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• CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reminds me to go leave a review on their refresh of the app. I just got off a plane and Plex wouldn’t load once I lost service for me or my wife to watch our downloaded media.

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• oyzmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why all the hate for Plex?

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  • Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I find it interesting how the remaining Plex fan base gets extremely pissed off when you criticize Plex. Saying how much you dislike a product doesn’t mean that you are attacking the product users.

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    • oyzmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ohh, ok. That’s not good, and those are some good points. I actually thought Plex was a nice, open source, project and bought a Lifepass 🙈

      It runs very smooth, and I really like the plexamp app for iphone. Does Jellyfin run as smooth, and have a music stream app?

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• vaccinationviablowdart@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is textbook gaslighting.

  Well if I spent 5 minutes instead of 0.5 minutes I might be able to find an actual text book but I think APA Dictionary of Psychology: “gaslight” is a pretty good definition:

  to manipulate another person into doubting their perceptions, experiences, or understanding of events.

  And it provides an example, from the original source of the term:

  a wife is nearly driven to insanity by the deceptions of her husband

  It is tres shitty to minimize actual abusive behavior by applying a term associated with intimate partner violence it to this minor thing which is someone posting a comment on some software he works at using an account which goes to zero effort to obfuscate that.

  In penance I decree you should watch the movie archive.org/details/gaslight-1944 and tell me if it’s any good, I haven’t seen it yet.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s about on par with other movies of the era. If you like those, you’ll like Gaslight.

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    • vaccinationviablowdart@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I seem to have replied to the main thread instead of the specific comment that mentioned gaslight. Didn’t you notice a complete no sequitur?

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hitchcockian study of human nature. Everyone should see it at least once, too fully understand the meaning of gaslight.

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you hate Plex so much that you’re going out of your way to invent fake reasons to try to make others hate it even more?

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• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  subtitles have completely stopped working for me :/

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