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I don’t smoke with people who like ads shoved down their throats. It’s a personal thing.

Did I say you did so on this account?

Your long reply and bullshit about “bellyaching” isn’t helping me think otherwise.

I’m very aware that you don’t consider it an ad, but it’s an ad in my eyes. It’s literally a call to action to recruit people to improve their paid application in order to extract money from users in the future.

The question isn’t “did OP act in good faith”.

I do consider it an ad to recruit people to do beta testing for a paid product. I don’t want to see ads in my feed. If I wanted that, I’d go to reddit. Maybe he should post there instead, where ads are overwhelming and users don’t give a shit about being advertised to constantly.

Every comment you make makes me more and more convinced that you’ve created a throwaway account to advertise your own paid products here.

I’m aware, and don’t think that ads to provide free labor for a paid product belong here. That’s been my entire argument the entire time.

Yes, but all of your comments seem to miss the fact that this post is talking about paid software. Which is what the OP you’re talking about and defending did. You also said “they aren’t charging you”, which might be true for now, but they will make money off of beta tester’s free labor.

Lmao, the OP you’re talking about literally said that “It’s a paid closed source app”. Why are you not mentioning that little tidbid?

That’s not the question that was asked.

The question is if brand new accounts should be able to shill their closed source products without otherwise contributing to the community. They should not be able to do so.

This OP’s contribution to the community was trying to extract free labor for a soon to be paid product.

I’m not trolling at all

They did think about that, apparently you did not. Did you not see that they specifically said “brand new” accounts?

Apparently, some of us are okay making 100% concessions and not giving a shit at all.

This logic is not great. I’d rather have something mostly open source (where I can check what blobs it’s actually using) rather than something completely closed where I have no idea what’s under the hood. It’s not about concessions, it’s about being able to tell what the hell software is actually doing.

No. They should not be allowed, especially the closed source, non-FOSS ones. It’d be one thing to have a FOSS application that has a premium option (such as Frigate), but if it’s closed source, they shouldn’t be in the self hosting community.

Haha, glad you figured it out!

I think it could drain battery depending on what settings you tweak. However, I don’t have terrible battery drain. Here’s all of my settings that could be related:

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With those settings, I get pretty frequent updates to my location, especially while driving (likely because I plug my phone in while in the car)

Do you use persistent connection? Both myself and my partner use GOS and it works fine, and updates frequently. You might also be able to change the pull rate as well.

It uses http, and yes, it works perfectly on GrapheneOS.

I use Home Assistant for this. It works very well and the data is all local. It’s probably a bit heavy if you don’t use the other parts of home assistant though.

If it was just my parents and I using it, that’d be fine, but it’s not. In my experience, nothing is quite as simple as “always on”, and if something breaks, even unrelated to tailscale or anything I set up, I’ll be to blame even when it wasn’t my fault.

It just wouldn’t work for my users, unfortunately, and I don’t want to be responsible for endpoints not on networks I own. I’m not denying that it’s possible or that it works for some people.

That’s the real benefit of a solution like Plex - it makes it so I only have to manage my own network, and if I want to invite someone new, I just ask them for the email attached to their Plex account, and I’m done.

I also am curious where you’re finding rpi’s for $35.

Your users shouldn’t be upset because nothing has changed for them. It shouldn’t be the end of the world to tell your users that nothing has changed. None of my users have reached out.

I’m not a diehard fan of plex or anything, but I would never be able to get my mother in law to properly set up any type of VPN. None of my users are technically inclined. Until Jellyfin has a different solution, I will unfortunately be sticking with Plex.

It doesn’t matter that they got the email, everyone did. You need to read it further and see that if a server owner has a Plex pass, the users do not need to pay.

I don’t quite understand your confusion, they sent the email to everyone with an account. The email indicates clearly that if a server owner has a Plex pass, the users do not need it. The email is not “wrong”.