HappyTimeHarry
@HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 day ago:
Point is you are setting yourself up for disappointment in the future.
Like you see this constant cycle of software becoming wosre as the companies want more and more money and your response is just “yeah but it wont affect my use case so i dont care”
Yeah im sure when it comes to plex, the app based off making pirates into paying customers, it wont fall victim to the same thing.
Gee leopards seem to be getting awful fat lately.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 day ago:
Im talking about all of plexs infrastructure, the hosting for the app, providing tunnels for users without port fwding, maintaining user accounts and usage data, emails… A lot goes into running a service like plex besides just “auth and verification”…and thats not even including the staff required to maintain it and developers to keep all the apps updated.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 day ago:
It will be if you depend on plex for streaming
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 day ago:
How mamy months of server costs do you think those lifetime passes cover? If everyone just paid once for a lifetime then plex as a service can no longer function.
- Comment on Arizona woman pleads guilty in $17M North Korean IT scam 1 day ago:
Dey took err jerbbs!
- Comment on Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates 1 day ago:
kids had to swipe their parents’ credit cards or find a fraudulent number online to access adult content on the web.
Umm no they didnt. Free porn was a thing even in the 90s, and some porn sites used 900 numbers you had to dial into and pay by the minute on your phone bill.
- Comment on Is there a good way to import/export/migrate music playlists between platforms? 2 weeks ago:
I used soundiiz, it costs $5 a month but i really just needed it the one month. I exported to a csv and then downloaded it all using tidal-dl and streamrip. You can import/export across a bunch of different serciservices.
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Vivaldi, now with added VPN 5 weeks ago:
I already use vivaldi, but i really wish this was possible too.
- Comment on Vivaldi, now with added VPN 5 weeks ago:
You should not trust any company to stand up against court orders.
I like when companies openly show what data they do provide, all of the good vpns do.
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
Sunk cost is more then just money… Every reply here is some variation of “i would switch but i have all my ratings and users settings in plex already and dont know how to migrate”
Which i can understand paying because you dont have time, i just also think its foolish to pay for a service like plex when the main use case is piracy, something a company like plex clearly can not continue to support legally forever.
Eventually the big media corps will decide they need to end all library sharing options and plex will not be able to win that fight.
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
Its about $60 more then ive ever paid for any software, and its literally a tool for piracy, why would i pay a company that clearly want to pivot to being a second rate netflix with ads, when i can get what i need for free and not support a shitty tech company.
It was the same thing with realdebrid, its just foolish to think these companies arent going to start cracking down on any kind of “sharing” features until eventually they get removed due to pressure from the anti piracy goons.
If you got your money worth thats great but id rather direct my money to projects that arent trying to profit off pirates until they can pivot to being a legit service and wall out what actually made them good in the first place.
Its clear at this point plex is getting worse and jellfin is getting better. Almost all the replies sayibg they still use plex have a “BUT” in them about wanting to switch and being stuck because they dont know how to transfer this or that (ratings, view counts, etc), which im going to look more into later to see if i can help with.
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
Or sunk cost fallacy, but whatever helps you justify paying $120 for software i guess. I dont think its a black and White one size fits all thing, i just have seen this patter before with other software, and it was already happening with plex before the price increase.
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
PLEX is not FOSS, plex is a proprietary for profit fork of XBMC.
My point is that in 5 years a lot of these plex users will wish they made the switch to jellyfin sooner. We’ve seen this before with other FOSS projects that gets forked into proprietary bullshit to make money.
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
All the folks saying “just buy the lifetime pass” gonna be in for a big disappointment in about 5 years
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 1 month ago:
If that, depending on the type of file sometimes its 10mb
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 1 month ago:
If you are unable to afford the fee for a state id then you would be considered indigent and would be able to get some kind of waver for the fee.
- Comment on The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption 1 month ago:
I look forward to only criminals having access to encryption
- Comment on Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music 1 month ago:
This seems like well intentioned but ultimately pointless. Nothing is stopping a nazi group from just forking off an older version like how gab did with mastodon, and no currently active funkwhale pods allow right wing content already.
- Comment on Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music 1 month ago:
Which instance do you use? Mine had been having issues recently
- Comment on How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history 2 months ago:
In a way crypto has fulfilled the promise of “banking the unbanked”… Its just that the main group of ”unbanked” people happened to be criminals and scammers.
Its been a huge boom for scammers, before this you had to convince people to use wester union or something and convince a person they are talking to some inconvenienced soon to be oil barron, now all they do is throw up a website with tradingview charts and people will throw money at them.
- Comment on Watch: Trump Calls Out Massive Social Security Fraud After DOGE Exposes Ancient 'Vampires' 2 months ago:
Oh is this them not realizing social security numbers got reused until recently? That’s pretty funny
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Someone let Stallman out of his cave again.
- Comment on (ROOST) Robust Open Online Safety Tools: Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord raised $27M+ to provide free, open-source tools for improving child safety online. 2 months ago:
You know its good for kids if roblox is involved. That company puts every child coal mine of the past to shame with how well theyve managed to exploit kids.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 2 months ago:
Its mostly been superseded by AAC, Opus and FLAC.
- Comment on Managing Subscriptions: Rocket Money Alternatives? 2 months ago:
Your bank has an option to export transaction history to a CSV file that can be imported into a spreadsheet.
Anything more automated is going to sell your data or cost a subscription or both.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 3 months ago:
Well I stole mine, I can always steal them again
- Comment on Selfhosted alternative to Spotify 6 months ago:
Funkwhale is still actively maintained, the last release was less than a year ago.
