anarchiddy

@anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, I don’t disagree, and I don’t actually fault anyone for using plex for it’s simplicity of remote configuration.

  I do think a lot of people overlook simple workarounds to doing straight reverse proxies. I’ve used a VPN to access my remote services without issue for a long time. Granted, that’s still a prerequisite skill a lot of people don’t have, but I think a lot of people already inside the self-host space already have that knowledge. And frankly, self-hosting as a concept stems from this idea that with a little bit of effort, we can free ourselves from corporately owned SAAS companies - it shouldn’t be so divisive to be advocating for self-sufficiency.

  There’s absolutely a place for plex. It’s a lot of people’s first foray into selfhosting. But I think people miss the opportunity to learn a new skill when they decide they’re willing to put up with abuse instead of taking the hint that it’s time to migrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, they were extremely vague about what the nature of their problem was, but they mentioned it was running on the same media library as their plex install. They insisted that it was because jellyfin was poorly designed and definitely not user error. Could have been a bunch of things, but it was almost certainly a config error. They said the server ‘locked up’ and all the other services became unresponsive any time jellyfin was scanning. They also did not like the way jf wrote metadata files to the media library volume. It was among their other complaints, such as ‘i didn’t like that you could reskin it’ and ‘it was too complicated to use for managing my book collection’.

  sounded like a usergroup mapping issue to me but hard to say for sure. They said they weren’t interested in troubleshooting it so, whatareyagonnado? They seem really invested in not liking it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of people here who simply cannot be bothered to figure out remote access

  A weird one i saw today was actually “jellyfin took too many resources scanning my library” and ‘if it doesn’t have an SSO my family won’t use it’

  I think a lot of people just enjoy plex better and will accept any minor inconvenience as justification. That’s fine though. I’ll swear up and down that apple products are not worth the convenience, either, but there will always be people who simply like them more than others, and thats fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most of the people complaining about jellyfin being difficult either haven’t tried it for at least a year or are trying to use it alongside their plex service without knowing how to configure them properly.

  Which is fair, I just didn’t realize how many people were using plex that didn’t have an interest in learning remove service deployment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually fascinated/frightened by the number of people here who are apparently comfortable running an exposed remote service on their personal network without enough tech knowledge to manage user auth themselves or maintain a stack with shared volumes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually think most of them do, it’s just that the simple designs aren’t universal enough to gain much traction in a FOSS community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok but there are a million SSO options out there - just because someone doesn’t want to allow google as a SSO provider doesn’t mean they’re telling anyone they have to switch fucking email services.

  If you want a remote service to handle your authentication you don’t have to use google. I feel like that’s something I shouldn’t have to point out in a self-hosting community on an open-source and federated social media platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use it regularly enough to weigh in comprehensibly - I use it mostly for processing svg drawings created in other programs for cnc plotting, or for compiling svg drawings onto standardized layouts for sending to a printer

  My only complaint with inkscape is that it’s a bit slow with rendering complex shapes/canvases with many points, but otherwise it does everything I need from a vector program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tool that helps ‘trace’ a raster image into vector shapes and paths

  it’s useful for creating vector artwork from raster images - sometimes a logo or icon is only available in a poor resolution raster image, and so having an easy way to convert it into vector saves a ton of time.

  I used it yesterday to create an SVG file for CNC plotting of a company logo. It would have taken me a few hours to hand-trace it myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a small thing, but as of the latest release Inkscape has a functioning live-trace tool

  It was one of the biggest things keeping me using illustrator but I used inkscape’s trace yesterday and it worked great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems relatively painless to chop those two instances off - chinese.lol has less than 200 users, and I can’t even find instance info for doesnotexist.club (coincidence? i think NOT).

  I do personally wonder how difficult it is to spin up new instances though. How much effort would it be for them to create a new one and do it again?

  I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking of the fediverse chick posts - hopefully some progress has been made with the IP leaking in auto-loaded external media through DM’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As enraging as this whole story is, I don’t think there’s any coming back from ‘you’re a war profiteer’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the terrible things about having a close friend or relative die is that it is a subtle reminder that you've moved up in the line towards the end.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m attending the second funeral in as many weeks this weekend for very close childhood friends, and the thing that’s getting me is the grief of losing not just those friends, but loss and realization that I’m not even who I was when I knew them anymore

  Like I’m kind of choking up now just thinking about it.

  It’s been a rough month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp, I guess that pen plotter I built last year is going to be my full time printer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone with a medical background please tell me what on earth is happening inside that volume

  All I can think of is that alien exo-suit from MIB with an alien operating him inside