You’re now using mental gymnastics to blame me for someone else’s actions. Sorry mate but I’m not into that mumbo jumbo. good luck somewhere else.

fair enough i guess.

And the next wrong assumption. It’s beginning to get really tiring. Maybe try to stop individualizing systemic problems. I know it is counter to our society but it is the only healthy way.

I’m building networks for a living. The situation I’m in has zero to do with my skills and assuming so is highly disrespectful.

But yes, as others have pointed out, it is likely that a configuration back when setting the service up years ago led to it using an outside connection which has only now become an issue because of plex’s switch to blocking remote streaming.

No matter because plex works just as well.

So its a thing. Very interesting. Thanks for confirming. Have you tried jellyfin? i switched now and it works great.

what features are you missing?

Good point. I wanna point out that plex is not foss. Its closed source software which makes those moves even more idiotic because they could have paywalled new servers and accounts instead or weaned people off from their servers if they use local only, etc.

But yes, one only needs to look at foss projects like lemmy, pixelfed, kde, gnome to see how it is done. This absolutely means you have to have more people than just yourself or you will definitely burn out.

Tldr: some use gov funding, kickstarter, additional features, turnkey hosting, explain and ask for donations, etc.

I have it set up in a way. That does not make it wrong. This is an option that plex gives you without warning so its their problem in the first place. They also just paywalled that feature that worked for years and they’re not considering the consequences or they dont care. The least they could have done is put a link “if youre seeing this on your home network, you need to do THIS.”

Yeah but not on my end.

Yeah, i assume it isnt. It got pointed out a couple times that it is a plex configuration problem which plex doesnt point out either btw.

In any case, thanks for helping and participating. Have a good one. :)

Which has nothing to do with this local setup being suddenly paywalled. As others have pointed out, it seems like plex has led me to set it up in a way that always uses the remote connection and since they now paywalled that, i cant use it anymore until i either pay or change my setup.

Which i did. I now use jellyfin.

They’re definitely not doing the right thing with paywalling existing features on legacy systems.

The big difference here is freedom of association. In the real world, your life depends on being accepted into that group or migrating to another place while having huge losses and problems due to it later on.

I’m not sure i agree because an admin can also be protested against and they can share ownership (i did that as well). Its not as black and white imo.

You’re assuming something that you just cant. I run this network alongside 5 others, some of them professional, for years. My configuration is standard and i’m using the software the same way i did for years.

If plex redirects my call to their server, that is their problem, not mine. I dont care what their inner workings are. I use a local address and this has happened for the first time.

Is it possible that it is an honest mistake on the side of plex? Yes.

That does not absolve them from the end result.

The condescension in your first point is brutal. I suggest you apologize.

Well, i didnt. Its a legacy install and i had jellyfin already running parallel because of the remote streaming paywall they introduced.

A little oversymplified but i’ll take it. :)

That is exactly the case. It is absolutely true and accusing me of lying is not okay.

You’re both right and wrong.

Its like saying “saying a company is easy to run shows you have never run an huge company.”

Both are false dychotomies. The amount of hosting costs, manpower, etc does not come from the project but how it is set up.

If you have to run servers for a software at all determines the cost for hosting for example. Same for every other aspect.

Linux is a huge software project I’m working on. Yet the cost of it is a joke compared to its size. It has way more users than plex.

Smb means you have to download the whole file. That isnt gonna fly in every configuration. But jellyfin does the trick easily.

Exactly. Thats why i use jellyfin now. Try installing it alongside. For me it worked well.