c10l

@c10l@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just that. I’m a techie. I’ve been in the industry for decades. I know my way around computer very well.

  I want to like Jellyfin and I want to ditch Plex (even though I have a lifetime license) because of what it has become and where it’s headed.

  That said, the other day my Plex server had some issues that took me a while to figure out. Since when it failed I just wanted to watch an episode of a series and relax, I once again fired up the JF client. I couldn’t get seek to work, I had to manually find and download subtitles (that’s not always the case but when it is, it’s pretty annoying), and ultimately I couldn’t watch my series at all as playback would randomly stop, the player would close and I’d be back at the menu, without the position having been recorded and with no way to fast-forward as seek didn’t work at all.

  I ended up spending 15min figuring out what was wrong and fixing Plex, then watched my series undisturbed.

  Like I said, I want to drop Plex for JF, but in the 3 years or so that I’ve been running both, every time I fire up JF I end up running back to Plex as I just want to sit back and watch a bloody series or movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Hijacks Restaurants Booking System Leading To No Reservations Being Available.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah possibly. The article doesn’t specify it but I’ve seen systems that would give you the automated message but still put you through if you stayed on the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Hijacks Restaurants Booking System Leading To No Reservations Being Available.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I, on the other hand, prefer to do it online and wouldn’t mind this. Horses for courses.

  Why even have a phone number if it is useless? Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know which small phones have been released recently but I’ve used an iPhone Mini and decided against it. Not because it’s small but rather because it’s not small enough.

  See, I do like a big screen more than a small one. That said, the phone is something I carry in my pocket so there’s a balancing act to be done there. What was really great about the original iPhone’s size was not that it had a small screen. It’s that it was small enough that I could reach all corners of the screen with my thumb.

  None of the recent small phones I tried had that advantage. In that case, since there’s no clear usability advantage to the smaller model, I’ll take the larger screen instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I ditched my Pi-hole but still block ads - mattsayar.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that some of the block lists are just too eager on the blocking.

  I don’t see how the author can claim that NextDNS or AdGuard are any better in that regard though, as they rely on the same lists. 🤦