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Plex price gouging any users they have left (lazysoci.al)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I bought Plex pass years ago for £79. The new price of $749.99 is INSANE.

No wonder all the cool people are using Jellyfin.

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[–] 68 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I tried Plex once, before I knew about jellyfin. I just wanted an open-source self-hostable media server with my own media.

When I tried it, after installing Plex, I was presented with a login for a Plex hosted account. Iirc that was optional and I skipped it, after that came the nags for Plex pass. Piss off. That's exactly the opposite of what I wanted out of something like jellyfin.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Oh yeah and apparently you can't stream remotely without a subscription either? If it were a feature they had to spend time on I'd still not want to use it, but I'd understand at least.

    From the application's point of view, there is no difference between internet and intranet access. I just saw that downloading the media you already own, using your own infrastructure, requires an even more expensive subscription.

    How tf did people stick around with this shit for so long.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Haven't used it myself, but wouldn't something like Tailscale solve the remote access limitation?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If the owner of the Plex server has lifetime and other users that don't have Plex pass at all and want to watch it remotely, they just need to be part of your home.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    They don’t even need to be a part of your home. The server owner just needs to have a Plex Pass. None of my users are in my home group and can still stream remotely since I got a Lifetime pass back when they were, I think, $99.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    The same reason most foss projects are barren. Plex focuses on ease of use and giving people what they want. Users mostly don't care about the sub. It's easy to use and works.

    Meanwhile jellyfin doesn't have a remote first interface that isn't absolute dog shit and I need to set up a reverse proxy and potentially idp to get the ability for my family to log in.

    This shit isn't hard. The answer to the community is, make the product better, and start bundling shit in. But I'm sure I've already offended some nerd who thinks this is all just so easy and requires no work to tell me I just need to learn Linux better. And that putting in a reverse proxy by default will make maintenance a pain and I just have to put portainer and LE to fix it.

    The shit y'all are bitching about is the problem.

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  • [+] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    It really, honestly, is super easy to get going. All you need is a folder with your media and a compose file you can find in plenty of tutorials.

    The thing we Linux nerds often forget, I think, is that we know what we're doing (most of us at least I hope), and regular people don't.

    I can read a simple compose file and pretty quickly notice if there's something off.

    If you wanted to do that, you'd first have to read up on containers and compose and all that stuff. You can, of course, just grab a compose file and run it, but that's generally not a great idea if you don't know what you're doing.

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  • [+] -37 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    This is peak Linux nerd shit.

    No. I payed $200 and Plex is better. My needs have been perfectly met for the past 10l5 years and foreseeable future.

    Second, fuck off with this attitude. I came here answering a question how, 'ohhhh it's so fucking complicated why normies might want to pay' with 2 concrete use cases and you immediately go off with that nerd bullshit that I need to contribute more.

    I had 3 prs hit main in Apache last week. Fuck off, your nerd shit isn't helping adoption asshole.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Bro flexes Apache contributions and still can't paste 10 lines to make a reverse proxy

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  • [+] -26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    No my time is just more valuable to me and I have money 🤷‍♂️

    Love offending the nerds with no familyies hunched over a desk all day 🤣

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Good old case of "mad cuz bad"

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  • [+] -10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    "why don't more people use jelly fin"

    "people don't use jelly fun because it's bad"

    "Get good"

    You people are morons 🤣 and you what why nobody but nerds use it at home.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's free and does every single thing Plex does without calling home to an untrusted corporation online

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Most FOSS projects are barren? Huh

    I'm here to say it's all very easy and requires no work.

    Seriously, you literally just install Jellyfin (or run it in Docker), set up nginx with certbot and make a port forward on your router. Zero maintenance at all.

    Any LLM can give you a complete step-by-step guide that takes 10 minutes to follow if you don't know what you're doing.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I cannot understate how bad of an idea it is to expose something to the Internet when you don't know what you're doing.

    Jellyfin is not designed to be exposed directly. They have a number of outstanding security issues. You should really use a VPN to access your local network instead.

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  • [+] -21 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    ADHD linux zealots will argue anything, no matter how stupid, if you dare hold any comparison to a commercial product. It's literally built into their ADHD brains need to argue and be right.

    They will sit there and argue insane shit and pretend like most people have a desktop sitting in their living room much less setting up an entire *arr stack with reverse proxy. And then scream at you when you say that sounds like work I don't have to do for less than a hamburger meal.

    It's easy bro, just learn docker, get it set up so that services boot at launch, and I'm sure nothing will never break or need to be updated again.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    yup people forget about convenience. its why I've been building retrovibed for the last year. that *arr + plex/jellyfin + vpn + reverse proxy nonsense is insane. yes you can do it.... but seriously who the fuck wants to manage that many moving parts.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    You are absolutely right about all of that, I did it exactly like that, had ChatGPT tell me what to do and done. I am not an IT person, but I still like messing with tech. But that’s more than 95% of people are willing to do, and that’s why people use plex. Takes literally a minute to set up and it just runs. That’s why people choose Apple. Simple and easy, little to no maintenance. That doesn’t make it a great product, but an accessible one, and that’s what counts for most people

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    My breaking point was to pay for transcoding.
    Paid for the android app which allowed HWA but then I wanted to watch it on my chromecast TV. Welp gotta pay or bust.
    So I bust, went through the early adopter pain (early 11th gen Intel Xe gpu, no actual knowledge of linux or docker, little experience with linux and docker) and set it up.
    Working great since then.
    Currently restreaming japanese IPTV with jellyfin via an m3u stream at work (and through a mobile VPN router)

    Not the most stable stream but sufficient

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Oooh. Can you give some more details about how you did that? I have a Japanese friend coming to visit for about 2 months and she might want to watch TV during the day.

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