Bro!

It failed the spouse test when I last tried last year

Ig they’re rolling it out in waves, they decided to overhaul their app UI…for the worse IMO

Here’s a comment I wrote on it about a year ago

Tldr; they are an early example of open source enshittification before enshittification was even coined (iirc)

This is going to go back quite a ways, and much of my knowledge is old at this point so some details might be off.

~15 years ago Plex as we know it started out as an OSX fork of the 0G Xbox homebrew software XBMC (Later renamed Kodi (For those who don’t know, XBMC was XBox Media Center and would turn the 0g Xbox into the cheapest Home Theater PC you could get at the time, man those were the days lol))

Plex was only briefly open source and then was quickly closed when they incorporated a year or so after they had something functional. They never made any promises about not charging or being open source or anything, so that’s why I’m generally fine with Plex

Sometime around 2012ish Emby came along as THE open source alternative to Plex and things were good. MOST of it was supposed to stay open source as was promised. From the beginning they kept build scripts n such closed source, probably should have caught on them, but heh ya know hindsight and all that.

Then around 2014/5 they took it all closed source, relicensed it and introduced their paywall including locking away already existing features. This is what pissed me and many others off and this is when and why Jellyfin split off promising to be truly fully open source forever. (There was a ton of drama about it at the time, but it looks like Embys Q&A thing a bit back doesn’t even bother to mention it, imagine that lol)

I don’t have a problem with subscriptions on open source software myself, but the way they went about it…yea. fuck em

Am I doing this right

Well if you ask me, not really, I disavowed emby years ago and afaic its just Plex and Jellyfin in this space to me

They like completely overhauled the UI lol

I think this chart might be a bit dated, I’m fairly certain Disney has taken full control of Hulu, not 67%

Jellyfin, unfortunately failed the spouse test when I last tried last year.

Besides, I don’t think for this particular case it would help much, they both pull their data from the same places iirc

I hope there’s not any XP waste

Cracks fingers

Time to start logging into my Xitter, ND and FB alts again LMAO

Lemmy has this problem too, its why many think .ml has all these huge comms, but thankfully by MAUs, only like Linux and Privacy are top

(What’s the problem with Lemmy.ml?)

Going into a recession to own the libs!

I just do a classic search for keywords based on whatever in posting to find the closest match and generally avoid “catchall comms”. For example, if I’m posting an article talking about newly discovered animal behavior, instead of shoving somewhere like [email protected] id put “animal” in the comm search bar and see what comes up which would lead me to [email protected]

Though it works better on lemmy.world than PieFed.world because PieFed isn’t nearly as federated with remote comms as lemmy.world is, so sometimes I go back to lemmy.world or use Lemmyverse.net to look up and then back to PieFed.world to subscribe to it

but there is not much activity going on.

It’s a .ml comm

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

I work from home, so I had for the last two months (less three weeks of my own holidays) to work while being a dad… and I can’t cut myself in half.

Right‽ The amount of times I’ve had to have the “I’d love to drop this work crap and play games with you, but we have to pay the bills” convo this summer… LMAO

Idk, I don’t exactly rejoice about back to school time, but at the same time it’s nice to have a scheduled break for alone time/quite/“adult” time 😏/work

I think it’s just a matter of where your personality falls. Some parents thrive on the routines and busyness of having their kids around all the time and others feel happy because they need a little personal space and the school day gives them time to recharge and focus on other things. It’s not about loving their kids any less, the break tends to help them come back to family time with more energy and patience

I mean yea, did anyone think they wouldn’t?

Ah gotcha, I wasn’t sure because my surface feels so…weird (it doesn’t feel or look like glass or ceramic) so I wasn’t sure if the “magic” was in that or just the way induction worked

Which brand was this? On mine, which is a Samsung (so if any brand was going to poorly design it, it’d be them lmao) I have had no issues simmering