I can’t wait to ride this shit into battle.

People seem to really like 1Panel.

It’s meta-search. A decent idea, but still relies on other search engines. A bit misleading. UI is fucking * mint * tho.

I paid $100 to play Forza Horizon on my own device too - should that have been free?

This is a complete false equivalence and I feel that you know that. The idea of a console is to expand it by buying new games. That’s not unexpected.

Your entire argument seems to be that software should be free

I am a software developer. The argument isn’t that software should be free. The argument is that this is an exceptionally poor business model and as a developer I’m disgusted that people are defending it. The VC which owns Plex and other VCs will use this “logic” that you have to move the goal posts further, and further, and further, and further until there’s no such thing as free software anymore. And I think that’s fucked up.

At the end of the day you’re paying twice to avoid buying IP. Just fucking buy the IP if you’re going to be stupid. Movies are like $12. At $250 you’re paying $2.10/mo in addition to your hosting costs.

Just go buy 20 movies for the same price. It’s so dumb.

No other solution exists that is as easy as Plex and as secure as Plex.

Entrenchment. This is a profoundly absurd statement.

I paid like $100 for a lifetime Plex Pass like 10 years ago.

You paid $100 to access software hosted on your own devices. That’s wonderful you think that’s a great idea. I’m sure the Plex devs love you and would kiss you right on the mouth.

They sign in and they can stream from everyones libraries. No VPNs needed, no other hoops.

Because you’re vendor locked in… lol.

It’s a maintenance process which preloads essential office files into memory for usage when you launch the different Microsoft applications so their startup time is reduced as well.

There are two schools of thought, and one of them is insanely wrong.

The current preferred method (by youngins) for pirating is by using a VPN provider to “hide” your torrent traffic, which is generally valid, but it’s not a silver bullet and it’s a wrong way to think.

The other is to use a seedbox, which is a remote server hosted in a country that doesn’t recognize piracy as a crime to begin with…

The choice is clear. Especially when you consider to get a good private VPN you’ll have to pay $5-10/mo. You may as well pay $5-10/mo to commit a crime where no one thinks its a crime, then you never have to worry about it. Using a VPN you can still get caught, it’s just exceptionally rare because conditions have to line up perfectly. But what if your VPN is down, and you accidentally begin a download? You willing to get a $100,000 fine for that?

Just use a damn seedbox.

Singapore, but for what reason they didn’t explain well to me.

Fast internet speeds, and generally they don’t give a fuck about American IP, although that’s beginning to change.

Been using FeralHosting for 10 years or so now. A bit more expensive than the rest, but I’ve had less than 3-4 issues within that whole time and they’ve always been a reliable provider. Highly recommend them.

OfficeClickToRun.exe is years and years old. This isn’t a new thing at all.

Cloudflare is a DNS provider, DDoS protection provider, tunnel provider, etc. They are not a hosting provider. How is using cloudflare somehow discounting the self-host experience?

It’s the #2 DNS domain registrar in the world right now. It’s not weird at all that most people would use it…luddite you may be.

I started to follow a guide (& doing a bunch of googling + chatGPT) for setting Jellyfin remote access for my parents. And this is where I’m a bit out of my depth […] I have a dynamic IP […] duckDNS path

Stay away from DuckDNS. Used to be fabulous but now it’s incredibly overused and very unstable. Works, then just stops for a period of time. Check out HurricaneElectric. Any A record can be enabled as DDNS that you can update with just curl. It’s great. I’ve been using them for about 10 years now without issues. They were down one time like… 5 years ago for several hours, and that was it.

Also as a side note: I see people talk about Caddy as a reverse proxy for extra security, but what does it do?

This option is nice if you self-host a web server with no bandwidth restriction. You setup caddy, update your DNS to register your home IP on X domain. Point jelly.x.domain to whatever your public IP is, with the port as a reverse proxy, then your IP is reachable via jelly.x.domain but it’s not a great setup for you because of the dynamic IP unless you do a bunch of setup to ensure it routes.

IMO the best option would be;

1. Install jellyfin server
2. Open port 8096 on your router for your jellyfin server IP
3. Create a jellyfin user for your parents, and enable remote connection
4. Setup DDNS (I highly suggest he.net) and point your domain to your IP
5. Setup cron job to update your DDNS record with he.net every hour or so using curl
6. Setup jellyfin for your parents TV or whatever device they’ll use to watch it
7. Login and enjoy

Preach, brother! Preach!

Seems like it was only a matter of time.

20% more will jump to Jellyfin. The other 80% will entrench and talk even more about how great Plex is. I mean Jesus, $250 to watch pirated movies. lol wtf It’s also fucking wild to me that people are defending a monetization model that is on self hosted hardware. Like, I gotta pay for my server and then a license to avoid buying DVDs. Fuck it, at this point just buy the fucking movie.

Ya’ll are brain dead. Plex loves you tho.

The idea of generative AI isn’t accuracy, so that’s pretty expected.

Generative AI is designed to be used with a content base and expand on information, not to create new information. You can feed generative AI with the entirety of the current Wikipedia text source and have it expand on subjects which need it, and curtail and simplify other subjects which need it.

You don’t ask generative AI to come up with new information–that’s how you get inaccurate information.

text AI generators making up believable lies if it doesnt have enough information

Let’s not anthropomorphize AI. It doesn’t lie. It uses available data to expand on a subject to make it conversationally complete when it lacks sufficient information on a subject, regardless of whether or not the context is correct. That’s completely different, and you can specifically prohibit an AI from doing that…

AI is great when used appropriately. The issue is that people are using AI as a Google replacement, something it’s not designed to do. AI isn’t a fact engine. LLMs are designed to as closely resemble human speech as possible, not to give correct information to questions. People’s issue with AI is that they’re fucking using it wrong.

This is an exceptionally great usage of AI because you already have the required factual background knowledge. You can simply feed it to your AI telling it not to fill in any gaps and to rewrite articles to be more uniform and to have direct and easy to consume verbiage. This instance is quite literally what generative AI was designed for…to use factual knowledge and to generate context around the existing data.

Issues arise when you use AI for things other than what it was intended, and you don’t give it enough information and it has to generate information to complete datasets. AI will do what you ask, you just have to know how to ask it. That’s why AI prompt engineers are a thing.

Wikipedia generally a really good candidate for generative AI.

https://nym.com/ is great.