Swarfega
@Swarfega@lemm.ee
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 5 weeks ago:
Of course. But if you managed to setup Plex then you’ve already shown you have willing to learn…
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 5 weeks ago:
I main Jellyfin now. I still have Plex for one device that has no Jellyfin client available. But indeed they run side by side sharing the same media.
Worth doing as Plex will keep getting shitter
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 5 weeks ago:
Me too. Docker isn’t hard if you use a compose file. It’s easy to read syntax.
Linux server.io has great documentation for their images.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
How do you work that out?
I paid for the app so that I can play media on the go. Now that payment meant nothing and I should now pay a monthly fee instead.
Anyone new to Plex who doesn’t want a subscription can only play media when they are at home.
Jellyfin is the future. Plex is dead to me.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
Anyone investing in a lifetime pass because of these changes is really making a really bad decision. Plex is not going to get better. These shitty decisions will keep coming and eventually it will be something that affects the lifetime users.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
I have Plex running but this change means I can no longer access my own shit remotely with paying for their shitty sub.
Thankfully Jellyfin is here. Plex can fuck right off.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
It was my go to dynamic DNS provider for years, but after noticing that it would take a good few seconds for my Jellyfin instance (among all the other stuff I self host) to load, I traced the issue down to duck DNS taking too long to resolve.
I switched to using ddclient in docker which updates my own domain’s records on Cloud flare with my dynamic IP. Now things load instantly.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
Plex still has more features and is a more mature product. However, the Plex ship is on fire and people should be looking to move away before it sinks.
Fuck Plex.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
They are removing it to make money from a subscription instead. You’re making it sound like they are doing something good!
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
So the media that I host is now no longer streamable when I am outside my home network? The fuck?
That’s my server, my bandwidth, my electricity and they are blocking it?
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
Until they remove or add something that this tier doesn’t get.
Jellyfin is the future.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 1 month ago:
Same here. Many providers turned off 3G so I either see 4G or 2G. 2G is so slow it may as well not exist.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 month ago:
It really doesn’t. It’s down to the developer. I would say that easily 75% app I use wanted me to set them up again.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 months ago:
Just to say. I recently jumped from Android and the iPhone didn’t just work like I remember they did. Two bugs I had were adding comments on Reddit using Firefox. The keyboard would come up but my text would be off screen so I couldn’t see what I was typing. This could be a Firefox bug but it was still very weird and not one I’d seen on Android.
One bug that used to get annoying is I’d unlock the phone and when going to type, the volume would be at max briefly before going back to the volume the phone was set at. This caught me out a few times in the middle of the night.
I couldn’t get on with iOS and felt that after not using it since the iPhone 4S that nothing had really improved. Also the lack of being able to use uBlock Origin on Firefox was awful. It’s been a while since I browsed the web without an adblocker and I really hated having to do something every day. Eventually I sold the 16 Pro I had and went back to my Pixel 8.
The one thing I remember being great about the iPhone was when you upgrade you restore the backup and the phone just works. With Android you typically have to go around and login to all the apps again. Again a developer issue but certainly easier on iOS.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 2 months ago:
I used Plex for a long time and was very tempted by their lifetime plan. I tried Jellyfin but at the time it just wasn’t a patch on Plex. I continued with Plex but always had that itch to get away from closed source. I eventually tried Jellyfin again and whilst it’s definitely not as feature rich as Plex, it does what I need from it which is a central store of media that any TV in my house can use. I’ve even given a few friends a login so they can watch content.
That said, I still have Plex running as I have one Samsung TV and there’s no official Jellyfin client for it. Yes there’s some long winded developer way to get one on but I just can’t be bothered.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
I use it for note taking at work. I like that I can add code into markdown. But yeah post notes and paste screenshots. Useful when I want to go over my old tech notes when I’ve fixed stuff. A personal knowledge base. The fact it’s markdown I could just upload this to somewhere like GitHub and it retains it’s formatting
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
It was yeah. But there’s a fork which is much better.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
Syncthing works great for me. I don’t use it on my phone but I know there’s an android version.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 2 months ago:
WB/Discovery+ just screwed people in the UK for watching cycling. It was £7 a month to watch before, which I was happy to pay. They just put an end to that and now bundled the cycling with their premium sports service for £29. I’m not paying all that when I only want cycling and none of their other content.
I cancelled my subscription, asked them to delete my account, purchased a fire stick and now paying for some dodgy IPTV service to watch it there for a fraction of the price.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 2 months ago:
It’s kinda odd that all these years later, you’re still better off pirating than paying for anything digital. All these services solved piracy but we’ve now gone full circle.
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 2 months ago:
Ha. I guess that is the give away! I didn’t see that at first.
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 2 months ago:
I’m puzzled. Northern Rock closed 12 years ago. The photo though doesn’t look that old?
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Endless wars about federations. Ha, so true. Along with switching to Linux and Privacy.
- Comment on Camping with the far-right: What I learned from a year undercover 2 months ago:
Does Lemmy have an equivalent to /r/usdefaultisum ?