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I keep one Physical Pihole and one in a container, be sure yeah, this happens.

Different candies, when crushed and remelted through a cotton candy machine have different levels of flavor in the final product. Specifically they seem to lose much of their aromatic properties. I suspect the original flavoring used on the cooked sugar is incredibly concentrated and a lot gets lost in the original product.

If the candies had the same intensity as they did in their drop form, I’d say they’re 100%.

If the candies ended up smelling and tasting like straight sugar, I’d say they were 0%

When I rank 50%, It generally means that it identifiably smells and tastes like the original candy and is at least reasonably enjoyable.

If you gave a bag of Werthers cotton candy to a random person who was familiar with them, they’d know what it was and likely be able to pick it out over other generic butterscotch.

I was decent, I’d have picked it over berry or cherry flavoring, but It didn’t knock my socks off, I didn’t strongly desire seconds.

I’ve made cotton candy with them. 60% of the flavor survived the heating.

Computers have been a mixed bag

Entertainment is better.
Education is far better. (you can learn about anything you want right now for free)
Racism was on a slow decline. (communication, education)

The economy is far worse The job situation is worse.
I’d say cars are better, being more efficient, but the SUV loophole fucked that.

If that documentation was awful, I’d REALLY like to see your take on NixOS :)

Hey I drove to the library, picked up all these things you needed, got dinner here ya go, free!

You drove? man that’s lazy…

He used AI to clean up translation and save time after he spent a fuck ton of time curating and delivering us a helpful product. Calling him out as lazy is an awful take.

Yup, if there was ever a decent use for AI, this is it. Lemmy can (and will) hate the shit out of it, but it took a little burden off the shoulders of someone doing us a great service.

That’s fine for browser-based watching, literally no one in my group watches via the browser. Even on android it’d be a fight. Grandma’s not going to go on to a browser to auth her session.

The clients need to support it. If it were just backend, I’d fork it myself.

The authentication is lacking 2fa and has a half hearted attempt at fail2ban

If you try to properly implement either of those, the standard device clients won’t work anymore.

Plex provides default SSL.

The relay is actually a bit more useful.

You can be on a carrier grade NAT with no real external IP.

It’s more akin to running a VPS somewhere and SSH tunneling your home server through it.

They also cashe the entirety of the TVDB and EPG Services.

I’m not sore about most of this with jellyfin, and I am trying to primarily use it, but I really miss some of the features. But realistically, adding 2FA to the clients would be a huge benefit. trying to replace 2FA with wish.com fail2ban feels particularly dirty.

I can’t decide if you don’t know what you’re talking about or you’re just trying to troll me.

I’m sorry, but writing down the data from your organizational program and re-entering it all from scratch is NOT a backup solution.

If you have such scant data to do that, you didn’t need to have nextcould installed in the first place.

18% of people running next cloud are not backing it up.

Not OP, I’ve kinda had a middle of the road experience with it.

I run JF and Plex on the same shares.

I dropped 10k tracks on it and a bunch of audiobooks, my stuff is 100% tagged.

I use tailscale to get to the server because here’s no Nat Holepunching going on.

I try to use it as much possible for audio, but some days, I just give in and use plexamp (like a guilty pleasure)

cons:

• It has issues with displaying some of the songs, they’re tagged right but you just can’t find some of it. They’re all Discogs coded, so there’s not even a lot of extra characters.
• It doesn’t always remember where in a book I am,
• It has no idea about collections of book files.
• Search is very slow, (yes there is a plugin for this, yes it’s complicated enough I haven’t tried it yet)
• Scrolling a large list is stupid low, it should just stream everything text into ram and bring thumbs in on demand
• Finamp: Finamp is barely a wrapper for the JF engine to the point that they can’t implement effects or crossfade without the feature being added in JF first. But JF is just using a ready-to-go library to play music, so changes to JF require upstream library updates. Audio development feels stagnant.
• Finamp scrolling loads one letter at a time. Scroll to Z? you get to wait, A…B…C…D…E…F…G…H…I…J…K…L…M…N…O…P…Q…R…T…U…V…W…X…Y…Z, no skipsies. It literally takes me a couple of minutes to go to songs that start with Z.
• Plugin installs are complicated and poorly documented, and compatibility with versions is dicey
• Finamp: If you lose the network in the middle of a song, you can soft-lock the app.
• Finamp: occasionally crashes if left for a long play session on my late-model Android phone.
• No options to cast.
• No listening through a NAT without port forwarding (which is dicey without a security team)
• No 2FA
• Finamp?: Shuffle is too random, you can get the same song to play twice in a couple of minutes. it needs to pull at least a couple of hours of list and shuffle that, rather than random play.

pros:

• It’s free
• It works good enough-ish for a daily car ride.
• It has some form of limited home-grown fail2ban
• The developers are super nice people.
• I exported my Plex playlists and used some Python to turn them into m3u lists, which worked fine. (Would be a cool feature to import from Plex)
• Playlist and Shuffle work mostly fine.

There are a LOT of pros and cons.

Pros:

• Developed by a professional, multi-disciplined full-time team with some security oversight.
• Hosted caching of The Movie DB for faster lookups
• Provision of SSL communication to and from your server without any special setup
• FREE EPG data caching
• Centralized server management from the web
• Low-speed relay for those stuck behind CGNAT.
• A REALLY solid mobile media player (sorry, but plexamp beats the pants off the JF alternatives)
• Centralized Login for your friends and family with email-based password reset
• 2FA already set up
• A nice reflector gauge to see if you’re ports are open and what your limits are
• Great client support on a LOT of devices
• Search is fast out of the box, even with extensive collections
• Their clients tend to do a better job supporting all the decoding features on every player

Cons:

• Not free
• Not Open
• They have a lot of your historical data and will eventually sell it when they sell the company. This is not going to be optional. That data is worth a lot and they likely already have enough EULA rights to sell it to whoever asks. Imagine if the MPAA gets in on the fun.
• Their security history is quite dicey
• The lifetime membership will eventually be enshitified as it’s not economically sound in the long run
• They constantly change the terms of the agreement.
• They constantly remove features people are using
• They constantly push to share data between users
• They constantly push Ads
• They are making previously free features pay.
• Their investors are starving, which makes them a liability.
• Their clients are generally slower.

Aww come on guys, my JF boner can only handle so much /s

Seriously though, why did they even give you the option to disagree, you know they’re just going to force it 3-6 months.

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Fantastic, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you give on anything before.

This is cool, are you incapable of not getting the last word in? My schedule just opened up today and man, I’ve got all day.

Nice gaslight you got there. You do you man keep trolling.

As I said gentry, you do you.

All you need do is look at the histories of Playon, Evernote, LastPass, and the hundreds of other titles that have changed their business model to be less free.

If you hear your engine knocking, you should plan for your car to break down.

Their free tier has always been about the same IRRC. ACL’s are basic only. Limited, but still generous users and devices.

If the drop device counts on free or eliminate ACL’s we’d also advocate leaving them.

Everything you said is true.

Also of note, tailscale is making a shit load off money off corporate America. Every one of us who are deciding engineers that dips our toes in goes holy fuck that’s cool and immediately pushes to implement it in a professional capacity.

And, when Tailscale reduces its free offering, it’ll be time to move to Headscale (or elsewhere).

We (most) are not advocating leaving Plex because it is not FOSS. We’re advocating leaving them because they are changing the terms in ways that have repeatedly suggested that it is circling the drain and feasting on its current userbase in a very Google/Apple/Microsoft way.

We’re not getting anything out of people leaving Plex. There’s no stock here, the community is not so small that it needs all the people from Plex. It’s a humanitarian effort, probably a neurodivergent one, but still humanitarian.

LOL

Hope for the best, plan for the worst,

or don’t plan, you do you!

They are still going. I would have thought that there will download it for you and let you watch it as long as you can prove you have the login would have gotten them enough legal attention to shut them down. Apparently it’s either a gray area or they’re below the radar.

I think one or two of the smallest properties are still usable in the old desktop app, but nothing that isn’t already serviced by YTDLP.

Using something to whitelist the firewall doesn’t require any client changes. For the less technically competent it could be as simple as setting their TV’s web browser to default to the white list page.

Haproxy could be convinced to whitelist people based on DNS entries. Each one of your remote consumers could set DNS to their house and once a day HA proxy would rewrite itself to match those addresses. If they’re coming in from a fixed client, The DNS would white list and let them in, If they failed the IP check they would pop a login so you could still use the service via the web.

It’s a hassle,It’s nowhere near as elegant is what plex is doing but without a data center…

They really could stand to add TOTP to the clients and server. I wonder if they’re open to pull requests. It can’t be that hard to add the option to the server than the clients can pick it up whenever they get around to it.

This change, is absolutely benign for the vast majority. Which means it’s a desperate grab to make more money which will ultimately fail.

Check out the trend over time.

They removed plugins when it was a threat to them controlling their ecosystem, people were using them to pull from YouTube and anime sources directly. They were basically turning them into Kodi, but with benefits

They did the same thing with offline resharing. You used to be able to sync a bunch of crap to your phone, go on vacation and share it with your family from your phone.

Then they started obnoxiously tracking you under the guise that you could see what your friends were watching, but they changed their terms so they could sell your watch data to third parties.

Then they started putting ads into free remote watch

Now there’s no more free remote watch.

As you said, this change is unlikely to make a big difference for anybody, so it’s unlikely for them to make any serious money from it.

My personal guess is, they’re sitting on a fuck ton of venture capital promises and those bills are coming due with the market becoming questionable.

They’ve done everything to the free crowd to increase revenue. If they are truly cash strapped, the next logical thing is to get all these people with lifetime passes to buy in again but on a subscription basis. That means they’re either going to abandon the lifetime product like playon did, or find some other way to force everyone to pay monthly to watch their own content.

Nobody seen anybody needs to switch to jellyfin but you’re going to need a backup plan because inside of the next year or two chances are Plex is not going to be recognizable to you.

You could throw Authelia or HAProxy in front of it.

You could do a port knocking daemon.

Tailcale is available and free on half a dozen different video viewing devices.

There’s about a million ways to skin that.

Also, keep in mind, it was a Plex security vulnerability In a lastpass admins home box that caused their asses to get leaked.

None of this shit deserves to be openly hosted online

If they ever want to we fork it and make a new thing. It’s the great thing about open source it’s ours.

Precisely, the worst thing that happens is jellyfin pulls open source or stops getting updates, At which point someone forks it and the next generation picks up the ball and we keep going.

If it’s open source, and it’s interesting and useful it will be maintained.