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Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
HA Home Assistant automation software
~ High Availability
IP Internet Protocol
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NAT Network Address Translation
Plex Brand of media server package
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN Virtual Private Network

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 20 acronyms.

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[–] cmeu@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Plex still costs the same to me. Lifetime pass means no price hike, and it "just works."

[–] lordziv@lemmy.nz 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But when you want to give access to others outside of your network they need to subscribe to a plan to get a watch pass. That's the main issue a lot of people are facing.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not if you’ve got a lifetime license, which anyone running a Plex server should already have.

Also if you want to give access to your jellyfin server to people, well you’re shit out of luck basically. You’re out of luck if you want to even watch jellyfin on most devices that aren’t a pc or android device.

[–] lordziv@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But tailscale gets around that by creating a secure external tunnel that allows others to connect to your inside from anywhere in the world?

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tailscale isn't on 99.99% of TVs and devices that people want to stream videos to, and asking people to connect to your VPN whenever they want to stream video is a no-go. Anyone suggesting it is has never actually done tech support for regular people.

[–] lordziv@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 hours ago

Not quite, I'm a software engineer that was literally a support technician before this role and I'm the go-to tech support person for my friends. Most of the complexity is on the hosts end ~ https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-funnel

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I've had so many instances of free to use, lifetime licenses, and purchased software that have turned into subscription services that I refuse to install anything that requires an account unless it can't be avoided. The fact that Plex required an account be created to view my own local content years before they started charging for use made it obvious subscription fees were coming.

Jellyfin works great. Combined with Wireguard it works great anywhere.

[–] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My only hitch making the switch to Jellyfin is that a couple of my TVs just don't have a jellyfin app whatsoever. I wish they did, I can't stand all the changes Plex has made over the last few years specifically.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Spin up pihole and just look at the data coming to your “smart” TV’s even when you are not using them. Then consider the data they must be sending home, the only thing “smart” TVs are good at is watching you watch them (or not watching them). I would highly recommend getting a pi or media computer for your TV’s.

I do not think I can stress this enough smart TV’s are not smart for you they are smart for whoever made the TV. Manufactures sell TV’s at a loss now because they get more by selling you.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They do not sell TVs at a loss lol.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Look at an major TV manufactures books and the TV part is a loss, the income they get from the TV is selling you to advertisers.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look at an major TV manufactures books and the TV part is a loss, the income they get from the TV is selling you to advertisers.

I'd love to see your source for this. I won't hold my breathe because it's simply not true.

[–] KbSez@piefed.social 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was a big supporter of PLEX for a lot of years but I don't want all the streaming options and ads and crap it was giving me. All I want is a solid media server application and Plex was no longer it.

JellyFin has been fantastic. I'll never go back

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I got Plex set up for my media server literally the day before they hiked the prices. I was weary about the $150 lifetime and couldn't afford the new price when they changed it so I went to jellyfin.

Turns out jellyfin was everything I wanted and free. Bought 5 years worth of unlimited hosting and a domain name for less than a month of Plex and now I'm well on my way to a pirate media empire.

Just wish I had anyone other than my spouse to share if with... Or that I could figure out fucking MusicBrainz...

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hey I’m just learning about Jellyfin and have one question that maybe you have a take on.

How do we know that Jellyfin isn’t just one step behind Plex on the enshittification scale? Is it structurally different somehow? Open source or something?

There was a time when Plex was the bees knees and everyone loved it, and now they’re putting th screws to us. Why should we believe another group won’t do the same?

[–] hobovision@mander.xyz 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In the time it took you to write this comment you could have gone to the Jellyfin website and read the first 12 words on the page:

The Free Software Media System

Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I’m never going to apologize for asking questions on Reddit or Lemmy. This is a place for talking to people. In the time it took you to chastise me you could have stuck your thumb up your ass 17 times.

Meanwhile, I got a perfectly good answer from someone else. Thanks for nothing.

[–] hobovision@mander.xyz -1 points 4 days ago

I think it just shows you actually don't care. I think some of the things you asked could be interesting if you had done any of your own reading first and had some context, but what you did instead was ask us to tell you what to think.

You can go do that on Reddit, or do you think that's where you are now?