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Encrypt-Keeper

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  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • Well that’s good news, that means they’re close at least.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • Nah, as far as I’m aware Emby hasn’t started their own streaming service and pivoted away from their self-hosted oriented position, or shoving a bunch of bloat into their server software. They haven’t shoehorned a bunch of unwanted social features into it either. If you were fine paying for Plex five years ago, you’ll be fine with Emby.

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  • Oh no I’d absolutely recommend it for anybody switching from Plex. Anybody who liked Plex and the state it was in pre-enshittification will obviously have no qualms with a proprietary solution. If FOSS is your end goal then you’d have a better argument, but Plex refugees are for obvious reasons not a part of that demographic.

    Emby is a great product that “Just works” in the same way Plex used to and for that purpose it is head and shoulders above Jellyfin even if it doesn’t have the benefit of being FOSS.

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  • I’m not aware of any enshittification with Emby, unless you know something I don’t. Emby sort of “just works” which is why it’s a more direct replacement to Plex than Jellyfin is.

    As for Jellyfin, I check in on it every now and then and they’ve made a lot of progress but the features and polish aren’t there. I hear good things about the Jellyfin web component, butif you want a good experience with Jellyfin apps on mobile or whatever TVOS you’re running, you have to use third party apps because the official ones are still woefully barebones. I still hear a lot of griping about issues with subtitles, and HEVC playback.

    Did Jellyfin ever even figure out proper Intro Skip? That was a big pain point for me for the longest time, as the only way to accomplish it was a third party plugin and the only option was to skip all intros, you didn’t get a button. I remember reading somewhere they added some kind of framework that would allow proper intro skipping going forward, but that the official function was not ready.

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  • Emby remains in the position Plex used to, pre-enshittification. They’re closed source and have a PlexPass style license, but if you miss the value you got with old-Plex, Emby fills that spot.

    For context, Emby used to be open sourced but offered the Emby Premiere subscription for some added features, and the open source half allowed people to just bypass the paywall, so they closed sourced it. Jellyfin is a Fork of Emby pre-closed sourcing.

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  • If this is enough to push you away from Plex but you’ve tried Jellyfin and it didn’t quite do it for you, try https://emby.media/

    It is the software Jellyfin is forked from and bridges the gap between the freedom of Jellyfin and the polished look and function of Plex.

  • Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.

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  • That’s just it, it isn’t an option

  • Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.

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  • Revolt is also an annoyance to self host and the apps don’t support self hosted instances without you rebuilding them because the server is hardcoded.

  • Firefox Nightly Preps Progressive Web App Support

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  • The idea is that Google and Apple on Android and iOS have purposefully gimped PWA functionality in order to maintain the popularity of their app stores. Which I get, because web apps are much more useful and functional on full computers. So it’s not really the fault of the PWAs that PWAs suck. But unfortunately, they do suck.

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  • The existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was “overtaxed” so they just threw up satellite instead of , I don’t know, improving the Wi-Fi infrastructure? There’s perfectly fine WiFi at sprawling work and college campuses, and stadiums that seat tens of thousands of people. What a joke.

  • Firefox Nightly Preps Progressive Web App Support

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  • PWAs are god awful on IOS.

  • When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?

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  • My current home server that runs three dozen containers including Plex and Emby as well as two dozen other services and many terabytes of data is literally an old Lenovo desktop I got for free out of somebody’s garage 14 years ago. So yeah it’s sort of a perfectly fine place to start.

  • Removing Watermarks From Images With Gemini Is Now Way Too Easy

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  • Just put the image over a larger white backdrop before you feed it to the AI

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  • The funny thing about this scenario is by simply thinking that’s true, it actually becomes true.

  • Customer is mistakenly accused of text spamming for repeatedly replying STOP to political texts

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  • That would be really useful if the people behind these texts were subject to US laws.

  • Let's knock down social media's walled gardens - Tim Berners-Lee

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  • Watching Tim Berners Lee write about his new AI project kinda hurts my soul a lil bit

  • I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks - Ars Technica

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  • No. It’s a term which means a services hosted by…yourself.

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  • I mean there’s no legal reason that would exist now that didn’t before.

    My guess is that they did honor the setting, but that was because the amount of people that used it was so low vs the total number of people that used the devices. Now with smart speaker adoption rates declining, and their desire to train AI, they have to dip into the pool of people that opted not to share.

  • I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks - Ars Technica

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  • The author actually explains that his original solution was just saving them locally on his phone and playing them from there, but that was too much legwork for his wife to want to switch from a cloud service like Audible. So the whole self hosting part is to become “Audible” for his wife lol.