haui_lemmy
@haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Great thinking. It wont ever happen though because that would be sOcIaLiSm.
- Comment on Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet 5 days ago:
I like the way you think.
- Comment on The end of humanity will come about through people's apathy. 1 week ago:
You might wanna watch dont look up. Its pretty spot on in that department.
And I dont think anything will come through people’s apathy - besides a world ending comet maybe.
I think people will get upset enough to get off their butts and do things. The issue I see currently is that demonstrating likely wont bring change but if people start disrupting harder (not more violent, although I’m not a pacifist at all) it will definitely bring change.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Yeah sure. Because a company paywalling functions has anything to do with network configuration.
What people like you dont understand is that there is no minimum requirement of knowledge to selfhost. It is completely braindead how often i have to tell people how a network works and now i have to explain to people why software configuration is not network configuration.
- Comment on FYI: TeamViewer is *much* better than Chrome Remote Desktop for aging hardware 1 week ago:
Teamviewer is an absolute shitfest and had its data stolen approximately a year ago. Not to mention that it stops sessions for free tier users.
Rustdesk is a great solution imo for selfhosters.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
I did not make a “first” or “second” post about this. This is it.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Neat. Thanks for suggesting.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Already done. Thanks for the suggestion though. :)
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
You’re pretty hostile. Good luck with that attitude.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
I run a reverse proxy too. are you talking about a public one? I’m probably gonna use a relay server for it which essentially is the same I guess.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Yeah, or not.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
You’re an absolute champ! Thanks for walking the walk. Its refreshing meeting people who do stuff. Feel free to check out my kodi peertube app at some point ;)
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
I know. the issue is my friends dont have networks run by me. So I have to gain access to them and have to change setups which makes the situation likely to blow in my face. its just not a good solution imo. People have already suggested a relay server which will likely be the best solution.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
yeah no. there are a lot of other solutions to this. they’re just a little annoying. others have confirmed there are similar setups like plex is doing with a relay server, but selfhosted.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
I think you make a hugely important point and I would definitely use it and I might even be able to help making it.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
That is pretty much how I imagined it. Sadly, its A TON of work. I have most of this set up in many VPSs for both me and customers (with other services of course) and I can imagine its probably the best solution. I still hate my life when thinking of implementing it. :D I bet its gonna be easier than I think but you may get my point here. Thank you very much for sharing.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
yeah, thanks. but thats not gonna work for me. i live in a big city and none of us (me and my server included) have static IPs nor am I gonna get them (at all) and I dont want to pay for them either (because ISPs here want you to pay for them). in any case, thanks for trying to suggest something. it might help someone else who has a different setup. :)
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Thats not what I meant. I of course have wireguard set up for administration and my own streaming needs. But friends of mine who were able to use plex by just making an account but now they cant because of course there is no relay server etc. I’ll have to think of a way to make it available to them (easily!) without putting my network at risk.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
awesome. thanks for chiming in. I will have to check how to do external streaming without opening my network up to the world (metaphorically).
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
You’re now using mental gymnastics to blame me for someone else’s actions. Sorry mate but I’m not into that mumbo jumbo. good luck somewhere else.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
fair enough i guess.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
And the next wrong assumption. It’s beginning to get really tiring. Maybe try to stop individualizing systemic problems. I know it is counter to our society but it is the only healthy way.
I’m building networks for a living. The situation I’m in has zero to do with my skills and assuming so is highly disrespectful.
But yes, as others have pointed out, it is likely that a configuration back when setting the service up years ago led to it using an outside connection which has only now become an issue because of plex’s switch to blocking remote streaming.
No matter because plex works just as well.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
So its a thing. Very interesting. Thanks for confirming. Have you tried jellyfin? i switched now and it works great.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
what features are you missing?
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Good point. I wanna point out that plex is not foss. Its closed source software which makes those moves even more idiotic because they could have paywalled new servers and accounts instead or weaned people off from their servers if they use local only, etc.
But yes, one only needs to look at foss projects like lemmy, pixelfed, kde, gnome to see how it is done. This absolutely means you have to have more people than just yourself or you will definitely burn out.
Tldr: some use gov funding, kickstarter, additional features, turnkey hosting, explain and ask for donations, etc.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
I have it set up in a way. That does not make it wrong. This is an option that plex gives you without warning so its their problem in the first place. They also just paywalled that feature that worked for years and they’re not considering the consequences or they dont care. The least they could have done is put a link “if youre seeing this on your home network, you need to do THIS.”
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Yeah but not on my end.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Yeah, i assume it isnt. It got pointed out a couple times that it is a plex configuration problem which plex doesnt point out either btw.
In any case, thanks for helping and participating. Have a good one. :)
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Which has nothing to do with this local setup being suddenly paywalled. As others have pointed out, it seems like plex has led me to set it up in a way that always uses the remote connection and since they now paywalled that, i cant use it anymore until i either pay or change my setup.
Which i did. I now use jellyfin.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
They’re definitely not doing the right thing with paywalling existing features on legacy systems.