I’m also 90% done migrating to jellyfin. I’ve had the instance running for 6 months now, the cultural change to watch jellyfin is complete, except for my wife’s iPad.

Heck, I should just retire Plex. That will force the change.

These are the thoughts of a cold and calloused sysadmin. Didn’t get the email about the change? Too bad.

You say this as though security is naturally a consideration for most docker images.

No reason why you can’t do it, but what do you mean by “good for normal people”?

You don’t need permission from anyone to try these things out.

Not that I’m happy about this or anything, I think competition is good.

But I never got readarr to work properly, it seemed to have a workflow that was unintuitive to me, compared to Radarr and Sonarr.

Thank you, I will check these out!

If anything came from this conversation, then at least one more pair of eyes is away from yt.

Now if only I could figure out how to use peertube…

I’m sure these are accurate statements, but the fact remains that I’ve never heard of dropout or nebula. At all.

And the only reason I’ve heard of floatplane is via LTT and Jeff Geerling, and I don’t actually use the platform itself.

That’s what I mean about inertia, google has it now and can coast for years on people just being lazy and staying with YouTube. That alone will be a loooong hill to climb for any other platforms.

LTT seems to have enough clout and has worked out a survivable business model, but notice that they remain on YouTube to capture and keep new views.

You are correct. Websites, the stack to supply video encoding, even scalability is a solved problem.

The hard work isn’t technical, it’s getting people onto your platform in the first place (marketing), getting people to continue using your platform (retention) and the perennial problems of SaaS evolving with other SaaS platforms (how many dev hours are you willing to eat trying to keep up with the Joneses?).

SaaS, and in this case, SaaS offering content, is a losing game. You will either lose your shirt, sell your business, or become entrenched in a position whose inertia is difficult to break. How much of any of those you are willing to take a firehose of is the question.

The lift of running your own platform is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to creating your own video hosting platform.

As with any new thing, it’s not the technology, it’s the implementation.

I don’t think anyone is triggered by blockchain on its own (although reading the room would suggested making blockchain a part of your product is dumb).

But calling blockchain and crypto “p2p” is like saying highways are social hangouts just because there are lots of people on them at any one time. There is no equivalence there, because the makers of this product are not making a social platform.

Sharpen your scam-detecting skills, my friend, for your own safety.

This isn’t a thing because there are many comics that don’t adhere to “frames”. They overlap with others, use the whole page, etc.

But beyond this, decompress your CBR/cbz files and use imagemagick to find frames and isolate them.

ELK stack

Lolol yes, elastic was a pig for me too

That’s a good point, and it’s one that isn’t solved yet in the foss space.

There are some success stories like Blender, and other projects like Thunderbird and KDE who have recently made their model work through voluntary donations, albeit by hiring competent management of such donations. And there are lots and lots of projects somewhere in between.

The interesting questions to me aren’t so much about Plex, but the infrastructure behind all the tools we use: NTP on Linux, build tools, ffmpeg libraries, etc. Lots of other companies make products that make money, yet kick back nothing to these.

Would a royalty system work? I dont know.

Yes, you got this bang-on. Plex made the decision long ago.

There are a few ways Plex could have played this:

1. By attrition. Stop the sale of plex pass, but leave those users and their access alone. New sign-ups get new rules about features/$.
2. By using some of their revenue to paywall Premium features, keep a cut-down but functional version for non-paying plebs. It doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing, even for streaming outside your network (which you could cap at X number of hours per month)
3. Start making Plex features a-la-carte, meaning, $2/mth for HDR, 4$ for streaming, etc. Or bundles.

The point is there are lots of companies who do this right and don’t have such a blatant disregard for the user. In the long run, this will not help Plex, it will help other streaming service helpers who are actually willing to respect users.

I know you’re not defending Plex and I acknowledge that. However, I see a lot of “How are they supposed to make their money?” arguments here, hence my description above of just a few models Plex could have chosen instead of f**king the customer.

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I agree.

I will add, however, that Jeff’s main concern isn’t the policy itself, but that he and other youtubers can’t see it or know what the rules are. The lack of transparency is the real issue.