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Which part has enshittified?

The only change I can see that when I scroll down on my Plex front page, there’s a bunch of stuff that’s not on my NAS. Some of them actually interesting, like this full ass category of old school kungfu movies:

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I’m only bent on people running software on shit hardware. Roku is bottom barrel crap along with cheap TV sticks.

Step one: get your in-laws a cheap Apple TV from whatever site you use for used electronics. Or even a new one.

Vs “just install Plex on any NAS from its built in appstore” that’s like 42 steps too many for the regular user.

I paid 79€ almost a decade ago. I got more than my moneys worth. Even the current lifetime (on sale) is less than a year of Netflix. More expensive than piracy + Jellyfin ofc if that’s your benchmark 😀

I have a Jellyfin instance running anyway, I’ll switch to that if Plex enshittifies.

Azure was down? Did anyone notice? 😆

I’ve been running Jellyfin just for the metadata on the same library as Plex.

If Plex goes full evil at some point, I can just shut it down and switch to Jellyfin.

But for the time being the UX on Plex is so much better I can’t be arsed to switch. Especially since I got my Lifetime Pass like a decade ago for 79€ or something. I’ve got more than my moneys worth for it.

You do know what caused the Hetzner thing?

People were literally farming Plex in there. They bought a 2-4TB server in the auction and installed Plex and a content farm setup to feed it fresh content.

Then they sold access to the server until it was at capacity. GOTO 10

At one point Hetzner went “fuck this” and just banned Plex altogether. We can’t have nice things because some people are dipshits professionally.

This.

I just set up Plex for my mom on her bargain bin cheapo android TV. It had the plex app right there and it’ll play without transcoding.

Can’t do that with Jellyfin.