This is why gatekepeeping hobbies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. When outsiders become more numerous than the enthusiasts, the whole thing goes to shit.

I find it hard to believe you’re constantly learning when you turn away from something as simple as Jellyfin for being “too hard” and consider Apple products to be user friendly…

No lol. The basic setup is: you point it to your libraries, it does the rest. Just like Plex.

Connecting remotely is maybe slightly trickier since you have to open it up to the internet, or just run tailscale.

Jellyfin is complicated? It’s easier to get going than Plex IMO. It might be slightly trickier to access it outside of your home network but even that’s not all that hard, just set up tailscale

You’re not supposed to answer, you’re supposed to re-read your stupid comment and realize how wrong you are, then fix it? I’m not looking for an echo chamber, I’m looking for stupid users to stop being stupid before tech gets completely ruined by them all.

I remember playing Rock’n’Roll Racing with my friend over 56K modem back in like 2002… It’s existed for a while lol

Plex and Jellyfin are basically like having your own Netflix built off your own media library. Plex offers a bunch of extra crap for a premium though.

Wouldn’t they hurt use Jellyfin? Lol The only “value” that Plex seems to have to offer these days are the weird tv services things they keep trying to push

You should learn anyway. I switched and I have no plans of looking back. Jellyfin is basically everything Plex would have been if they continued as they were installed of trying to become some stupid streaming service mess that they are turning into

Apple devices definition don’t serve people first lol

Apple died the second Woz was pushed away.

Lmao I didn’t even get that far down their stupid post. That’s some impressive stupidity. Apple is a marketing company that happens to manufacture some sub-par commercial devices that appeal to idiots that like to pretend they know what they’re talking about.

Did this person manage to get anything correct in their long-winded cloud yelling?

This is such an incredible long bunch of misinformation and nonsense…

Jellyfin is everything Plex used to be before it started sucking.

Streaming outside your home network might be slightly trickier with Jellyfin but that’s the cost of security and ownership… But really, setting up tailscale is dead simple as well, and would get you what you need in a way that is far superior to Plex…

I stopped reading beyond that because as I skimmed the post it was just more nonsense. Are you sure you’ve actually used Jellyfin?

I bought one ages ago, but I left for Jellyfin when I ditched Windows. I hated the direction Plex has been going for years - if I wanted a content streaming service, I would have signed up for one… I just wanted a good way to stream stuff from my media server to my other stuff.

Jellyfin is basically what plex would have been if they didn’t lobotomize themselves.

Man, there’s a throwback. This is the first time I’ve seen that game referenced in the wild lol

We have the choice for now, but we shouldn’t be embracing it… We should be the ones fighting to end this stupidity.

Yes, this is because the average user is dumb and content with guzzling down whatever bullshit gets thrown at them. This is a big part of why we really do not want to see the masses shift to Linux - they’ll bring the cooperate interest and the enshitification they love.

I don’t see how an atttempt to enshitify Linux is progress… We should not be getting excited about being able to willingly install rootkits in Linux.

Unless I’m mistaken, JavaScript handles most of the event listeners and dynamic actions on websites… I suppose there is PHP and ASP doing a bit of that too, but I think most of it is JS

Yeah? It wouldn’t be as flashy looking but it would be far more secure and far less system-heavy.

Would also be great if our browsers didn’t report every little detail about our PC too…

Time to go back to BBSing.