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HBO Max Shrinkflation: Removing features from my plan, with no reduction in price (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

To be fair there are workarounds to getting Plex to play locally without Internet (I had to look this up because I didn't believe you lol) but you have to set it up on the server with internet.. I originally started with jellyfin but it was too clunky for me overall, Plex was way more elegant. Also I'm pretty sure Plex deprecated plugins entirely.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Plex killed their official plugin repository, but plugins are, technically, still supported. There just isn't much life left in that ecosystem after Plex strangled it.

    Ironically, it's probably Jellyfin's thriving plugin-ecosystem that's holding back its clients - since anything with a native UI can't really be used with any plugin that extends the UI feature set and vice versa.

    Oh, and all "workarounds" that I know of for "offline" Plex involve essentially disabling user auth for certain IPs - which is insane. Plex simply doesn't support local auth, it's not an offline-capable solution. That (and some other restrictions) is why I'm still running and maintaining Jellyfin as a fallback.

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