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This is exactly the goal - a box that anyone could buy, plug-in, click a few buttons, and get an on-the-internet service (like PhotoPrism or Plex) ready to roll. Bonus if they can easily control access, invite friends, and also if it's totally open and hackable - as much a learning platform for technology as a plug-and-play box-for-media.

That's the vision anyways!

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Plex seems to be circling closer and closer to a bad place in their quest to be a media company.

I’d love it if they focussed on improving the UI and sharing aspects rather than pushing their media and weird default requirement for internet access.

I’d happily pay more for the path I want.

https://jellyfin.org/

This is what I use for my moderate sized media library, and it's great, also works with a variety of consumption apps.

Yeah, it started around 2017 with dark patterns to try and get you to create an account on their website and has only gotten worse from there. Can you even set it up locally anymore without forking over your email address? Shame how they shot themselves in the foot like that

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