Brave is a cryptobro shithole grifter browser funded by Peter Thiel operating for profit. Itās as private as NordVPN - just PRāed and marketed to shit, only larping to attract privacy conscious but misinformed people. Their business model is to develop their own ad platform and track you to shit. They swapped referral codes in, they track your downloads, they fucking promoted FTX - a notoriously obvious scam den, that is not software you want on your PC, made by people around which you would grip your kids and belongings tightly IRL
They donāt actually care for your privacy and its founder would most definitely sell your data to ICE given the chance.
Not sure, I would guess paying Oracle for another instance, attaching the target boot drive as a separate one to it and backing it up non-live, and to a better storage provider than NFS over Tailscale.
Or someone also said their custom images thing has a download option. That also needs payment.
Today I was about to post on here about basically the same thing, and, well, I donāt know, I guess I want to talk or at least write it out. Iāve been blanket blocking politics and news ever since Trump got elected - as black and white as it gets. If a sub I see says āTrumpā, it is blocked, and that is also applied everywhere else, including people I used to interact with. I completely left TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and mostly left Reddit, because I thought it would make me feel better. Between here and Reddit my blocklist probably has multiple hundreds of places that do nothing but wallow in misery or post about how everything sucks. Long story short Iām way less on social media now.
Anyway, it didnāt make it better. Iām still on here, occasionally, and now Iām finding that I also fucking hate it; everyone sounds miserable, no one is kind to themselves, there is a lot of hostility in general in relation to a bunch of severely inconsequential stuffālike serious heated arguments about which flavour of sponsored diarrhoea is less disgusting when consumedāIāve even started noticing it in myself hanging out here. What I realised is that all the platforms Iāve left, I did so because they went to shit and lost any semblance of what I liked them for. It wouldāve been fine if it was one facet, but itās fucking everything, everywhere, and all at once, IRL and online.
Everything is invented, perfected, sometimes repeated and remembered, gentrified, commodified, sold for a profit, repackaged, dropshipped, consumed, regurgitated, optimised, dopamine fracked (shameless self promotion), ran through ChatGPT, summarised by Claude, and then I get to interact with it - maybe. If I subscribe for $9.99/wk. Justā¦ so many things have become like that, itās insufferable to ingest and even harder to create, because you have to meet that standard if you want the herd to see you, and for me creating for no audience at all is no fun, and empty proclamations of ājust create!ā help very little.
I have about a billion different hobbies (ADHD) and they donāt help or pay off at all, maybe just to distract myself and burn time faster, but thereās no enjoyment anymore. Everything kind of sucks there too.
And taking myself away from screens only serves to make me feel even worse - here a lot of my friends and a lot of my hobbies live one way or another; thatās why I used to love computers. Out there, people hate me for being gay, I have to mask constantly, and I faint from the summer heat. And now I canāt even love computers in peace at home, because even they have been mercilessly slopped by our sacreligious overlords.
I donāt feel depressed - I have a great job, friends, money, stuff, hobbies, social norms say Iām not really supposed to be depressed with all of that anyway. But Iām really struggling to actively enjoy anything anymore, and Iām honestly beginning to think itās not me but everything else lol, as egotistical as that is. Except itās not just me, itās very prevalent - everyone knows everything sucks, and thatās another reason everything keeps sucking even harder. Oh well. I enjoyed writing this, a little, for a moment.
Why wouldnāt you? Itās a free way to write down your struggles and get a response without judgment, all without the insurmountable effort and bravery threshold of getting to a therapist, not to mention the cost.
That itās sycophantic and actually harmful to vulnerable people is beside the point for them, same as lung cancer is beside the point for a smoker, until they get it.
This is a complete failure of the healthcare system. Weāve normalised seeking help, but we failed to make it available. What to speak of the countries where mental healthcare is still stigmatised, itās probably even higher there. Itās a sad number because the system failed these people, not their friends or family for ānot being there enoughā
I āfoundā the community so long ago I donāt quite remember if it was a strangely good fan comic about cartoons I watched, a general interest in āhey what do these animal people do on the internetā, or porn. It was definitely online, though. Either way, I simply decided I was going to be part of it at one point after learning about it, and that was that. I always appreciated the art of animation in all its forms, and it just so happens that a lot of animated things are anthropomorphic animals, so that could also be why I was initially interested in exploring it. As with all things in life, it just happened, I didnāt wake up one day with a total understanding of wanting to be a furry, it was gradual and took months or close to a year to fully embrace it and learn self-expression.
I consider ābeing a furryā to be a general positive interest in anthropomorphised animals, but with some special sauce thatās very hard to explain. In my head, thereās a subtle difference between working for Disney being the character designer for Nick Wilde, and being a furry. It can be a hobby, it can be a kink, a profession, an outlet, a mask, a way to socialise, can be all of that at once and more, or just one of those things. There is no solid definition. A lot would agree that āinterestā covers it as an umbrella definition - and that interest goes in various directions and to various degrees.
I personally like a lot of things to do with the characters/fursonas - character design, character art, how expressive they are, and how much soul and raw human creativity OCs have in relation to their creators. I appreciate art, expression and self-expression, and with furries those things are ubiquitous and highly visible once youāre in and go beyond the sex pest surface that ānormiesā see or the top-100 score on e926.
Iām not the social kind, at all, and that gnawed at me for a while. I found refuge in being part of the community, even if I am practically silent.
The community has a ridiculously high number of really cool people in it that I seriously enjoy talking to, keeping up with and sharing a lot of interests with. Donāt confuse this with me saying itās perfect - as with all social gatherings, there are truly evil and weird people, but everyone has been good to me.
I like how welcoming it is and how open and friendly everyone is to newcomers. I also like how shamelessly weird you can be as part of it - no one really judges absolutely degenerate āIām the only person with thisā kinks or very niche and weird interests. And while now this applies to more corners of society, and internet in particular, than it did 10 or 20 years ago, and there are wholesome communities out there, itās still rare. The furry community has always held itself to a higher standard of acceptance, being the constant victim of abuse and trolling and the eternal lulcow, it kind of had no choice. I related to that part too and wished to be that resilient. And even today as more and more places get invaded with astroturfing, politics, self-pity, bots, trolls, AI slop, and generally evil people, it remains a good refuge for me.
Thereās something inherently special I feel that I canāt quite quantify in various such niche-but-numerous communities, I feel the same about certain TV fandoms or more obscure memes or tiny invisible-to-the-public trends. Big communities and even society at large have never been particularly kind or accepting to me, being a furry helped me understand that it doesnāt have to be that way.
Sorry if I came off that way. About misunderstanding the point - look at the other comments. People are making the same points as me. I donāt think I have misunderstood anything here, and I donāt think being a long response automatically makes it any less valid to understand how nuanced and all encompassing our dependence on third parties is.
Youāre the one saying āthis is a Wendyāsā which feels quite condescending in a post explicitly asking for opinions on how where Plex falls in the selfhosting community, including as defined in the sidebar.
These ones are advertisement screens, they are independent machines but controlled from a single source. They display the time, next stop, and 80% of the rest of the screen are ads - mostly for the damn public transport organization itself lol
Instead of nginx, you can try Caddy, which is way easier to get started with and rolls HTTPS for you - no actions needed. Nginx is very powerful, but also very āprogrammer-brainedā and at times really confusing. Strictly speaking with Caddy all youāll need is installing it, opening ports, editing its config to point at a local IP or directory, and youāre done.
https://caddyserver.com/
Read the docs there as well, they are good and understandable. Follow the Caddyfile steps, not JSON.
Please donāt try to gatekeep software or turn selfhosting into a Professional Redditor Larper shitwar like iOS vs Android. Literally no one needs or wants that.
You can criticise Plex for its many shortcomings, thatās valid. Even better if you contribute to Jellyfin so it can overcome its shortcomings. But saying Plex is not self-hosted for puritan reasons is not a good look and smells like StackOverflow and elitist neckbeards; youāre disqualifying people from the community just because you, in your infinite pedantic wisdom, cannot comprehend that they also have valid reasons for using what they use.
By this logic:
If you use the internet, nothing you access through it is self-hosted, because your ISP dictates if itās allowed or not. Tailscale, WireGuard, OpenVPN, or a direct port connection are all subject to this. However you can access Jellyfin remotely is subject to this.
Docker isnāt self-hosted - you depend on Docker Inc, their image registry will be aware of some details about your host, including your IP, which is technically PII and is directly linked to you.
Letās Encrypt certificates arenāt self-hosted because theyāre an external CA and collect data like your email.
Jellyfin is not self-hosted, it depends on TMDB and OMDB which are commercial or external.
Pi-hole is not self-hosted as it depends in many cases on GitHub or external resources for its block lists, and it depends on public resolvers to operate.
Ubuntu is not self-hosted because Canonical controls everything and has telemetry
Neither is Windows, Mac, Debian, Arch, or even FreeBSD - they control updates and packages and if they randomly become evil, they have levers on you no matter what. Maybe TempleOS lol.
Nextcloud is not self-hosted because they control the add-on store, update servers and has telemetry.
The BitTorrent protocol isnāt self hosted because you rely on trackers and they collect telemetry about your client
Media piracy isnāt self-hosted because youāre relying on other people to produce it for you
If you get phone notifications, emails, messages, or whatever else - those arenāt self hosted. Even if you host Ntfy youāre still relying on Apple or Google notification relay servers.
I could go on.
By any stretch of this line of thinking, even the mere act of downloading any software in the first place disqualifies it from counting as self-hosted, because you didnāt build it from scratch and you depend on an external resource, your ISP, a DNS resolver, your operating system, your hardware (microcode, BIOS), your browser, and so on and so forth. The logic breaks down very fast. Donāt.
I subscribed briefly, then requested a refund. The reason was both for the highly customisable and curated search, but also for Assistant - because I trust Kagi a little more than Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, or Perplexity with my ābest pancake batter according to Redditā queries - even if thatās fundamentally compromising my privacy. Kagi tended to deliver better information in general, so maybe Iād want to use LMs less frequently - I thought.
However, that slight hint of trust was shattered very quickly when they did what every company with a profit does best - sold me a lie:
Which means what Iād subscribed to will have eventually gotten worse, likely for the same price, and Kagi had no intention of letting me know before I subscribed, and their intention seemed to be to just make active subscriptions worse, as they were opposed to grandfathering in the thread.
So I decided Iāll pass, I have enough āproductsā I donāt trust. Even if itās all in the āweāre ācontemplatingā stageā, itās clear what their approach is and how far theyāre willing to go with, pardon me, fucking users over.
P.S. I understand the sustainability problem. But Iād have expected them to have that part figured out before actively offering it in a subscription. The way they are going about it is off-putting. So, no thanks.
For my friends and family, itād be fairly annoying to connect to Tailscale, and really annoying to connect to Wireguard or Yggdrasil.
Think of a smart TV used by your mom and having to guide her to install Wireguard on it lol.
I donāt fundamentally distrust Plexās encryption after having tcpdumped it and seeing nothing but gibberish - which is exactly what my ISPs would see, thatās my reason for encryption. But I do not trust them to keep that feature operational indefinitely.
Iāve actually seen more people commercialise Jellyfin because you can edit the fuck out of its source code and add 10 ads and 3 paywalls. Iāve only seen people selling access to Plex shares directly - like you would sell a Steam key, whereas Jellyfin custom shares get customised and sold as a Netflix alternative with an active subscription in some places around the world.
Memory usage is a significant concern. It immediately made my NAS completely crash when attempting to scan the (not even very large) library. Plex, right now, as of writing, when idle, uses 30MB, compared to the 3.1GB reported by Jellyfin when I last tried it, which was the last reading before my NAS died a tragic death of RAM starvation.
The apps are bad. A browser isnāt a good solution - see HDR, 10bit, 5.1, Atmos, and bit-perfect support. Remote access is complex, particularly for those behind CG-NAT, and encryption for remote access is even more convoluted; Plex does it in one checkbox. Some of that is architectural, some financial, but the end result is a worse experience for me.
The UI design is such that any server slowdown affects responsiveness severely, even for simple actions, which unfortunately speaks volumes about how much of a priority the actual user experience is - thatās not something Iām compatible with as a person in general.
Third-party apps are not good either for my platforms, I deemed them to be unusable unstable and amusingly poorly designed - thatās including the Swift and Flutter versions, the latter of whichās design and UX I found incredibly obtuse. Stretching a phone app for desktop use feels a bit like stretching your ballsack into a wind sail - maybe just get a sail mate.
I genuinely wanted to like Jellyfin, I hate proprietary software, let alone paid software, LET ALONE paid piracy software. But JF still has so many areas like these that are just incredibly frustrating to deal with. Plexās dogshit decisions are not impacting me much (Lifetime), I have established custom setups around the desktop Plex clients to make them usable, so I see no immediate reason to switch until Jellyfin addresses its memory usage and considers using a non-skid language for an application thatās essentially a file server, set of ffmpeg scripts and a metadata database.
Yeah, itās not an uncommon use case to accidentally or even intentionally edit the database on two online devices - I do it all the time when I want a new login to be used on my laptop right after I signed up for some new website on my PC, and the laptop just happens to have an āunpushedā change from last evening, or I edit the new loginās metadata, or whatever.
With this, Iād have to keep a mental model of the versioning of each database and avoid even touching my phone like the plague if KeePass is open on my computer.
Itās not that big of a deal, itāll probably be a problem once every few months, but itās annoying to keep track of and worth talking about.
Are you genuinely unable to comprehend the concept of a company not doing evil things to make profit? You do realise I paid for it up until this point right? Thanks captain obvious for telling me I can stop paying for things.
I was fine with a price hike, I realise that paid users are subsidizing free ones and everything is getting more expensive. What Iām not fine with is the deception, shitty marketing, removal of āDEI-likeā language, and a sudden clear lack of morality in the company. They lost my trust, anyone with a brain shouldnāt trust them either with their most precious online secrets.
And you call yourself a freedom advocate, then advocate for textbook enshittification which always leads to the removal of freedom lol, what a shill
Tired, stressed and need a hug
Ok ratiod by cybersecurity https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
Brave is a cryptobro shithole grifter browser funded by Peter Thiel operating for profit. Itās as private as NordVPN - just PRāed and marketed to shit, only larping to attract privacy conscious but misinformed people. Their business model is to develop their own ad platform and track you to shit. They swapped referral codes in, they track your downloads, they fucking promoted FTX - a notoriously obvious scam den, that is not software you want on your PC, made by people around which you would grip your kids and belongings tightly IRL
They donāt actually care for your privacy and its founder would most definitely sell your data to ICE given the chance.
Use these: Gecko-based: LibreWolf, Waterfox, Mullvad Browser Chromium-based: Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium
Specifically on iOS, use Orion, Reynard or straight up Safari - somehow even Safari is less dubious than Brave if you look at the network requests lol
Not in the EU, but no oneās made a capable Gecko or Chromium browser yet.
There are experiments, but theyāre not prime-time ready.
https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/
Not sure, I would guess paying Oracle for another instance, attaching the target boot drive as a separate one to it and backing it up non-live, and to a better storage provider than NFS over Tailscale.
Or someone also said their custom images thing has a download option. That also needs payment.
Today I was about to post on here about basically the same thing, and, well, I donāt know, I guess I want to talk or at least write it out. Iāve been blanket blocking politics and news ever since Trump got elected - as black and white as it gets. If a sub I see says āTrumpā, it is blocked, and that is also applied everywhere else, including people I used to interact with. I completely left TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and mostly left Reddit, because I thought it would make me feel better. Between here and Reddit my blocklist probably has multiple hundreds of places that do nothing but wallow in misery or post about how everything sucks. Long story short Iām way less on social media now.
Anyway, it didnāt make it better. Iām still on here, occasionally, and now Iām finding that I also fucking hate it; everyone sounds miserable, no one is kind to themselves, there is a lot of hostility in general in relation to a bunch of severely inconsequential stuffālike serious heated arguments about which flavour of sponsored diarrhoea is less disgusting when consumedāIāve even started noticing it in myself hanging out here. What I realised is that all the platforms Iāve left, I did so because they went to shit and lost any semblance of what I liked them for. It wouldāve been fine if it was one facet, but itās fucking everything, everywhere, and all at once, IRL and online.
Everything is invented, perfected, sometimes repeated and remembered, gentrified, commodified, sold for a profit, repackaged, dropshipped, consumed, regurgitated, optimised, dopamine fracked (shameless self promotion), ran through ChatGPT, summarised by Claude, and then I get to interact with it - maybe. If I subscribe for $9.99/wk. Justā¦ so many things have become like that, itās insufferable to ingest and even harder to create, because you have to meet that standard if you want the herd to see you, and for me creating for no audience at all is no fun, and empty proclamations of ājust create!ā help very little.
I have about a billion different hobbies (ADHD) and they donāt help or pay off at all, maybe just to distract myself and burn time faster, but thereās no enjoyment anymore. Everything kind of sucks there too.
And taking myself away from screens only serves to make me feel even worse - here a lot of my friends and a lot of my hobbies live one way or another; thatās why I used to love computers. Out there, people hate me for being gay, I have to mask constantly, and I faint from the summer heat. And now I canāt even love computers in peace at home, because even they have been mercilessly slopped by our sacreligious overlords.
I donāt feel depressed - I have a great job, friends, money, stuff, hobbies, social norms say Iām not really supposed to be depressed with all of that anyway. But Iām really struggling to actively enjoy anything anymore, and Iām honestly beginning to think itās not me but everything else lol, as egotistical as that is. Except itās not just me, itās very prevalent - everyone knows everything sucks, and thatās another reason everything keeps sucking even harder. Oh well. I enjoyed writing this, a little, for a moment.
Sorry for rambling.
Why wouldnāt you? Itās a free way to write down your struggles and get a response without judgment, all without the insurmountable effort and bravery threshold of getting to a therapist, not to mention the cost.
That itās sycophantic and actually harmful to vulnerable people is beside the point for them, same as lung cancer is beside the point for a smoker, until they get it.
This is a complete failure of the healthcare system. Weāve normalised seeking help, but we failed to make it available. What to speak of the countries where mental healthcare is still stigmatised, itās probably even higher there. Itās a sad number because the system failed these people, not their friends or family for ānot being there enoughā
I āfoundā the community so long ago I donāt quite remember if it was a strangely good fan comic about cartoons I watched, a general interest in āhey what do these animal people do on the internetā, or porn. It was definitely online, though. Either way, I simply decided I was going to be part of it at one point after learning about it, and that was that. I always appreciated the art of animation in all its forms, and it just so happens that a lot of animated things are anthropomorphic animals, so that could also be why I was initially interested in exploring it. As with all things in life, it just happened, I didnāt wake up one day with a total understanding of wanting to be a furry, it was gradual and took months or close to a year to fully embrace it and learn self-expression.
I consider ābeing a furryā to be a general positive interest in anthropomorphised animals, but with some special sauce thatās very hard to explain. In my head, thereās a subtle difference between working for Disney being the character designer for Nick Wilde, and being a furry. It can be a hobby, it can be a kink, a profession, an outlet, a mask, a way to socialise, can be all of that at once and more, or just one of those things. There is no solid definition. A lot would agree that āinterestā covers it as an umbrella definition - and that interest goes in various directions and to various degrees.
I personally like a lot of things to do with the characters/fursonas - character design, character art, how expressive they are, and how much soul and raw human creativity OCs have in relation to their creators. I appreciate art, expression and self-expression, and with furries those things are ubiquitous and highly visible once youāre in and go beyond the sex pest surface that ānormiesā see or the top-100 score on e926.
Iām not the social kind, at all, and that gnawed at me for a while. I found refuge in being part of the community, even if I am practically silent.
The community has a ridiculously high number of really cool people in it that I seriously enjoy talking to, keeping up with and sharing a lot of interests with. Donāt confuse this with me saying itās perfect - as with all social gatherings, there are truly evil and weird people, but everyone has been good to me.
I like how welcoming it is and how open and friendly everyone is to newcomers. I also like how shamelessly weird you can be as part of it - no one really judges absolutely degenerate āIām the only person with thisā kinks or very niche and weird interests. And while now this applies to more corners of society, and internet in particular, than it did 10 or 20 years ago, and there are wholesome communities out there, itās still rare. The furry community has always held itself to a higher standard of acceptance, being the constant victim of abuse and trolling and the eternal lulcow, it kind of had no choice. I related to that part too and wished to be that resilient. And even today as more and more places get invaded with astroturfing, politics, self-pity, bots, trolls, AI slop, and generally evil people, it remains a good refuge for me.
Thereās something inherently special I feel that I canāt quite quantify in various such niche-but-numerous communities, I feel the same about certain TV fandoms or more obscure memes or tiny invisible-to-the-public trends. Big communities and even society at large have never been particularly kind or accepting to me, being a furry helped me understand that it doesnāt have to be that way.
Sorry if I came off that way. About misunderstanding the point - look at the other comments. People are making the same points as me. I donāt think I have misunderstood anything here, and I donāt think being a long response automatically makes it any less valid to understand how nuanced and all encompassing our dependence on third parties is.
Youāre the one saying āthis is a Wendyāsā which feels quite condescending in a post explicitly asking for opinions on how where Plex falls in the selfhosting community, including as defined in the sidebar.
These ones are advertisement screens, they are independent machines but controlled from a single source. They display the time, next stop, and 80% of the rest of the screen are ads - mostly for the damn public transport organization itself lol
Instead of nginx, you can try Caddy, which is way easier to get started with and rolls HTTPS for you - no actions needed. Nginx is very powerful, but also very āprogrammer-brainedā and at times really confusing. Strictly speaking with Caddy all youāll need is installing it, opening ports, editing its config to point at a local IP or directory, and youāre done.
https://caddyserver.com/ Read the docs there as well, they are good and understandable. Follow the Caddyfile steps, not JSON.
Thatās it for the recurring costs related in any way to my homelab.
Please donāt try to gatekeep software or turn selfhosting into a Professional Redditor Larper shitwar like iOS vs Android. Literally no one needs or wants that.
You can criticise Plex for its many shortcomings, thatās valid. Even better if you contribute to Jellyfin so it can overcome its shortcomings. But saying Plex is not self-hosted for puritan reasons is not a good look and smells like StackOverflow and elitist neckbeards; youāre disqualifying people from the community just because you, in your infinite pedantic wisdom, cannot comprehend that they also have valid reasons for using what they use.
By this logic:
I could go on.
By any stretch of this line of thinking, even the mere act of downloading any software in the first place disqualifies it from counting as self-hosted, because you didnāt build it from scratch and you depend on an external resource, your ISP, a DNS resolver, your operating system, your hardware (microcode, BIOS), your browser, and so on and so forth. The logic breaks down very fast. Donāt.
I subscribed briefly, then requested a refund. The reason was both for the highly customisable and curated search, but also for Assistant - because I trust Kagi a little more than Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, or Perplexity with my ābest pancake batter according to Redditā queries - even if thatās fundamentally compromising my privacy. Kagi tended to deliver better information in general, so maybe Iād want to use LMs less frequently - I thought.
However, that slight hint of trust was shattered very quickly when they did what every company with a profit does best - sold me a lie:
https://kagifeedback.org/d/10116-kagi-assistant-standalone-subscription
Which means what Iād subscribed to will have eventually gotten worse, likely for the same price, and Kagi had no intention of letting me know before I subscribed, and their intention seemed to be to just make active subscriptions worse, as they were opposed to grandfathering in the thread.
So I decided Iāll pass, I have enough āproductsā I donāt trust. Even if itās all in the āweāre ācontemplatingā stageā, itās clear what their approach is and how far theyāre willing to go with, pardon me, fucking users over.
P.S. I understand the sustainability problem. But Iād have expected them to have that part figured out before actively offering it in a subscription. The way they are going about it is off-putting. So, no thanks.
For my friends and family, itād be fairly annoying to connect to Tailscale, and really annoying to connect to Wireguard or Yggdrasil.
Think of a smart TV used by your mom and having to guide her to install Wireguard on it lol.
I donāt fundamentally distrust Plexās encryption after having tcpdumped it and seeing nothing but gibberish - which is exactly what my ISPs would see, thatās my reason for encryption. But I do not trust them to keep that feature operational indefinitely.
Iāve actually seen more people commercialise Jellyfin because you can edit the fuck out of its source code and add 10 ads and 3 paywalls. Iāve only seen people selling access to Plex shares directly - like you would sell a Steam key, whereas Jellyfin custom shares get customised and sold as a Netflix alternative with an active subscription in some places around the world.
TL; DR: UX, UI, and memory.
Memory usage is a significant concern. It immediately made my NAS completely crash when attempting to scan the (not even very large) library. Plex, right now, as of writing, when idle, uses 30MB, compared to the 3.1GB reported by Jellyfin when I last tried it, which was the last reading before my NAS died a tragic death of RAM starvation.
The apps are bad. A browser isnāt a good solution - see HDR, 10bit, 5.1, Atmos, and bit-perfect support. Remote access is complex, particularly for those behind CG-NAT, and encryption for remote access is even more convoluted; Plex does it in one checkbox. Some of that is architectural, some financial, but the end result is a worse experience for me.
The UI design is such that any server slowdown affects responsiveness severely, even for simple actions, which unfortunately speaks volumes about how much of a priority the actual user experience is - thatās not something Iām compatible with as a person in general.
Third-party apps are not good either for my platforms, I deemed them to be unusable unstable and amusingly poorly designed - thatās including the Swift and Flutter versions, the latter of whichās design and UX I found incredibly obtuse. Stretching a phone app for desktop use feels a bit like stretching your ballsack into a wind sail - maybe just get a sail mate.
I genuinely wanted to like Jellyfin, I hate proprietary software, let alone paid software, LET ALONE paid piracy software. But JF still has so many areas like these that are just incredibly frustrating to deal with. Plexās dogshit decisions are not impacting me much (Lifetime), I have established custom setups around the desktop Plex clients to make them usable, so I see no immediate reason to switch until Jellyfin addresses its memory usage and considers using a non-skid language for an application thatās essentially a file server, set of ffmpeg scripts and a metadata database.
I suppose so. Maybe the corporate propaganda got to me about the security of smaller projects.
Yeah, itās not an uncommon use case to accidentally or even intentionally edit the database on two online devices - I do it all the time when I want a new login to be used on my laptop right after I signed up for some new website on my PC, and the laptop just happens to have an āunpushedā change from last evening, or I edit the new loginās metadata, or whatever.
With this, Iād have to keep a mental model of the versioning of each database and avoid even touching my phone like the plague if KeePass is open on my computer.
Itās not that big of a deal, itāll probably be a problem once every few months, but itās annoying to keep track of and worth talking about.
Are you genuinely unable to comprehend the concept of a company not doing evil things to make profit? You do realise I paid for it up until this point right? Thanks captain obvious for telling me I can stop paying for things.
I was fine with a price hike, I realise that paid users are subsidizing free ones and everything is getting more expensive. What Iām not fine with is the deception, shitty marketing, removal of āDEI-likeā language, and a sudden clear lack of morality in the company. They lost my trust, anyone with a brain shouldnāt trust them either with their most precious online secrets.
And you call yourself a freedom advocate, then advocate for textbook enshittification which always leads to the removal of freedom lol, what a shill
https://pawb.social/comment/22239133