Couldbealeotard
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 days ago:
A lot of the angst about the server requirements for Plex pass really have to stretch the truth to become a victim. It only affects you if you were using it for free, in which case 🤷, it was free, it’s hard to feel bad about it.
The only thing I’m disappointed in is the free mobile streaming comes at the same time they released the new broken app. When they get around to fixing the app I’ll be able to tell my friends they can now use the app. The server owner paying once is much better than every person paying for the app.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 days ago:
It’s inappropriate because you’re not allowed to review your own companies software, let alone do so without declaring as such.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 days ago:
If he was forthcoming in his review, it would have been to obvious that it’s a breach of the ToS. Workers are not permitted to review apps made by their own company.
This is 100% a shady review.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
They are providing extra service. Using Plex on mobile is now free for everyone, which is a huge step forward. It’s not a bad trade off for server owners to require Plex pass for remote viewing (which is only necessary if you’re not using a VPN like tailscale for free remote viewing).
I don’t get why people are freaking out over a one off fee to unlock something that has running costs for Plex, which itself isn’t necessary if you just opt for a free VPN client like tailscale.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
OP couldn’t comprehend an email, and when everyone tried to reassure them that nothing for them has changed they doubled down. The closest thing to justification I can figure is “all my clients are borderline illiterate as well and it upset them”.
How in the world could you be upset that a product you already paid for is not providing that specific feature for free anymore. They’ve even made the phone software free!
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
How many people with a folder full of media also know how to safety expose a home server to the internet? It would be less than 1%.
Meanwhile, you don’t need network engineer levels of knowledge to run Plex for remote access. You download the software, choose the folder, and send your friends a share link.
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 3 weeks ago:
Fishburne was very diplomatic when asked for his opinion on the finished Matrix 4: “it was better than I expected, but not as good as I had hoped”.
Hugo weaving, the actor for Smith, didn’t appear in the film due to alleged scheduling conflicts, but I suspect he took a look at the script and noped out of it.
It’s a shame, it could’ve been good.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 2 months ago:
Great game.
Did this exist before or after worms?
- Comment on This speaks for itself 2 months ago:
I’m my country they made it illegal to market fast food directly to kids. It may not be a choice, it may be regulatory.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 2 months ago:
What is the skeuomorphism here? Because I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
- Comment on tetrapods 2 months ago:
Let’s get. Together. Katamari on the funk
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
Yea. I’m sure they will be humbled like the people of North Korea, who think their supernatural leader invented hamburgers and the electric guitar.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
After his own offer to rescue the children was turned down
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 2 months ago:
Sad story.
That’s enough money to have a good life and provide a good life to your loved ones. If he never finds it, he is a crazy man. If he finds it he is a smart man. A normal person can’t earn that much in a lifetime. Even a miniscule chance of finding it could drive someone to obsession.
For the sake of his sanity, and for a good story, I hope he finds it, but I doubt he will.
- Comment on Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation 2 months ago:
“unplugged nation” is certainly one way to describe what happened. The monkey very briefly became part of the electricity grid, is another.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 3 months ago:
And from memory, the number of enemies scales with the number of players. It’s gets pretty hectic pretty fast.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 3 months ago:
There’s heaps of mods for classic games to turn them into co-op, including Doom (3), half life, quake, aliens vs predator, etc.
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 4 months ago:
That happened at my workplace. The ATO was notified, and after a lengthy investigation each staff member were repaid tens of thousands of dollars, including the extra that would have been generated through super growth.
The ATO does not muck around.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 5 months ago:
I’m sure it will simply result in a yes/no dialogue box asking “are you over 16?”
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 5 months ago:
I thought it was a great idea for official statements. Kind of like a new type of RSS feed.
Local transport companies can advertise delays, meteorology organisations can advertise natural disasters, police can post active missing person alerts, etc.
But it seems like it is just vapid narcissists thinking other people give a shit about their random thoughts.
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 5 months ago:
So what do you think they are doing with the data?
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 months ago:
If you start with the second one you won’t know what’s going on and feel like you’ve missed a bunch of important story.
This is how it felt after playing the first one as well. Half Life 2 is almost an unrelated game. The plots of the two barely line up.
- Comment on nighttime pollinator gang rise up 5 months ago:
Hang on, what is bad about the word moist? Some of my favourite things are moist!
- Comment on nighttime pollinator gang rise up 5 months ago:
What do mean regarding terrible names? “Moth” isn’t inherently a bad name; any negative connotations of the word come from the creature itself.
- Comment on Brazilian Wandering Spider 6 months ago:
The good news is you get a four hour erection.
The bad news is that you die within two hours. - Comment on Starlink dishes found on Russian military drones after being shot down 7 months ago:
Why would private ones need to be registered?
Mobile GPS is artificially disabled above a certain ground speed to prevent them being used as bootleg missile guidance systems.
Just put a speed limit on Starlink dishes, and then if you want to permit one side to use them simply whitelist those MACs. Perhaps the real reason is that a private company doesn’t want to be seen as choosing sides or maybe there are implications for international rules of war.