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Getting a cease and desist from Sony for finding the master key is pretty impressive.

Except he also jailbroke the first iPhone. Doing it twice is beyond impressive and proves he's the real deal.

I didn't omit anything. I focused on a sentence you led with. More importantly, I definitely don't care whether or not you enjoy Plex. I left that ecosystem 4 years ago because the writing was on the wall, now Jellyfin blows it out of the water performance wise. Didn't even have to pay for the pithy Plex Pass!

> I was stating that running your own media server (no matter the software) is better than using the streaming services.

Maybe you should have stated that in the first place...? It is certainly clearer in terms of the message. Nobody said you can't talk about Plex, just that it is weird to lead with "I paid for this!" on a thread about free software that isn't what you paid for. If you didn't pay for Plex pass, your comment would fit better. If the Geerling article was about Plex, your comment would fit better, but it wasn't, and it doesn't.

Hardware encoding and general performance are quite a lot of reasons. I don't think you're making your argument in good faith when you are clearly not pushing these systems to their limits like some of us are. There's no need to act like you've really tried running Jellyfin when you just chose the easier option and stuck with it.

> Tried them both.

Okay? I'm sorry you can't use tools as they are intended. I'm sorry you can't fit tools to their purpose. I'm sorry you treat everything like a nail. What do you want me to tell you...?

It's called MythTV. Not MythMusic, or MythMediaJackOfAllTrades. I feel that is intentional per the developers motivations. Similarly, the developers of Jellyfin are primarily motivated by TV and movie sources. I'd love if they better supported music so that my music video library can have proper tags, but I won't grill them since the TV and movie side is quite good, and Navidrome does plenty for me.

> As for the decade, do you work at being a jerk, or does it come naturally?

Imagine being offended over the easiest joke possible. Is this your first time on the internet, kiddo? That was also a joke, don't lose your head.

> I'd point out that jellyfin is a fork of Emby, which is a rebrand of MediaBrowser -- first released in 2000. Mythtv's initial release was in 2004.

Now, imagine if you had the self awareness that your know-it-all tendencies are what make you unlikeable in the real world. You'd get so much further!

> I use emacs too. Does that make me an asshole as well?

I use VIM. Should I have put a trigger warning before telling you? You sure seem sensitive enough to need one.

I made a suggestion to use a tool better suited to the task. Throwing a fit about a stranger's suggestion is entirely up to you.

Jellyfin is terrible for music. MythTV? What decade is it?

Try Navidrome, or Gonic.

Plex has fallen behind free alternatives, which is no surprise because they already have most people's money. You're not paying for a higher quality experience when you pay for Plex Pass. You're paying for functionality that has been free in other alternatives for awhile, like hardware transcoding.

Performance wise it's also bad compared to the competition.

You use Plex because you think it's easier to use than Emby/Jellyfin. It would behoove you to recognize where you have been successfully marketed to.

It's odd to reply to a thread about a piece of software that has always been FOSS, and parading the solution you paid for while saying "You can't pay for a better solution than something I've paid for!"

Jellyfin is a better solution than Plex, and you're not paying anything! Imagine that.

Folks stuck on Plex don't know what they're missing, and usually pay for Plex Pass.

> You cannot pay for an experience that rivals Plex

Ironic you say this, since Plex Pass is virtually required if you want full control over streaming your media. I'm not sure you quite get it yet.

> Hire the best engineers?

Whenever I see this, I read it as "Hire the most loyal drones."

OpSec (Operational Security) is a huge part of the game. If you want to reduce attack surface you probably want to give adversaries as little to go off of as possible.

Everyone's an expert

> Why is this field so prone to hype and repeating the same things with a new coat of paint.

Money and Marketing. It's no different from how Hadoop was a big deal around 2010, or how Functional Programming became the new thing from 2015 onwards.

Personally I think this is a failure of regulatory agencies.

> I know people who can't watch Silicon Valley because it's too real.

Sounds like they just don't enjoy it.

> similar to how Google pays apple nine digits a year

I couldn't believe this and looked it up. It's $9 billion. Which is ten digits.

Good god.

Most cameras can plug directly into the iPad.

It's thunderbolt, so 40gbps

Well he's gotta make money somehow.

College burned me out. The solution was, as another commenter suggested, to drop the baggage and move on. I had a semester left and my career in front of me. Which do you think I picked? Waiting another semester wouldn't have helped me in the slightest.

A couple jobs ago, I worked for a company in the Education disruption space and COVID essentially killed the culture. It was always a big "political activism" company, but the rhetoric got cranked to 11 with COVID and it was incredibly hard to get work done in the same way I used to. The cure here was to give myself more time, I realized here I had been sacrificing a lot for employers who didn't give two shits about me.

I bought an iPad Pro (M1) about a month ago. I'm glad I didn't wait, most of these upgrades are superficial or would not be noticed by me.

Bounty systems are a pretty common way to get insane upload ratios so that you can archive.

RAM errors are the last thing you'll test before your computer is fixed.

Learn from your mistakes.

"Unhoused people"

The newspeak is strong with this one. There was never anything wrong with the word homeless.

Have progressives gone too far?

Last year, I bought a blu-ray player and two blu-rays to see if buying the media was worth it. At the very least, I'd have alternatives in case power goes out for an extended time. One of the blu-rays I bought was It's a Wonderful Life.

At the penultimate scene, with the bell ringing on the tree when George is back home with his family, the blu-ray just stopped, glitched out, and I could not get it to play properly. Something to do with firmware and others were experiencing similar issues.

I tried! It's incredible that even when you follow all the rules, you still get the shaft.

Never again.

You sure can when the tactics are the same.

They should have made the second amendment the first. Then I think you'd get it.

In my experience, no business is able to shuffle its people around efficiently enough for this choice to make a difference. I can see situations where it would help, and I can see situations where it would absolutely hurt to have multiple accounts.

Either way, people politics are going to get in the way more than any decision you make here. You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather.

Well, it's up to them.

Definitely has a "but why?" vibe to it. OP probably learned a lot getting this up and that's usually what motivates me to learn.

Batteries going out have never locked me out of my home.

Seems like you're putting way too much thought into something that probably won't happen, being 2022 with notifications and all. I don't justify my choices with 0.1% chances.