In todays episode of “Plex enshittifies” Plex employee breaks ToS.
Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/fake-reviews-on-play-store-by-plex-staff/917736
In todays episode of “Plex enshittifies” Plex employee breaks ToS.
Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/fake-reviews-on-play-store-by-plex-staff/917736
Would you like to explain to my MIL about how to set up tailscale for her entire network so she can stream to her TV?
Download file from Google Drive link
Download OpenVPN app
Pick file in OpenVPN app
Enter password
Share WiFi from phone to TV
Done
Too hard, she can’t even open a PDF file on her own.
Does she drive or open bank accounts?
If the answer is yes, why is that so much harder?
And I work in tech support. With medical non-technical folks. Guiding them through the control panel oblindly on the phone.
I know what I am dealing with on the regular!
Because computers (to older folks) are a magical black box that they’re afraid to break but still manage to do so.
Can you wire a network cable? If the answer is yes, why can’t you build a night table from scrap wood?
You can’t because having proficiency in one area doesn’t translate to proficiency in another.
Good question, I’m also in tech. She does drive and of course opens bank accounts, but it’s like it all goes out the window when she needs to do anything remotely technical. I would say that most of the users I’ve encountered are not that bad, but she is unique in that way.
You want to run an internet tv service for your MIL then do it. Thats just not want Jellyfin is for. Its a home media server.
Is this that hard to understand?
Then it’s not a drop in replacement for Plex, is it?
No shit. Is that not exactly what I have been saying over and over?
My first comment in this thread says clearly that if you want to run a pirate tv service for other people then you’ll want something other than Jellyfin.
You replied to someone and said “my wife has no problem using tailscale”. Is your wife not another person? Sure, same household, but if you’re not running a pirate TV service, why does she need tailscale, and how is that different than sharing with my MIL?
Also, why do you keep using the terminology of “pirate tv service”? Why is it suddenly not a home media server if I want my mother in law to be able to use it? I don’t share with people outside of my family.
You seem to think that because you’re using Jellyfin, it’s automatically not piracy. But you certainly can do piracy with it, it has tools purpose built for it like Jellyseerr. So how is that not a “pirate tv service”?
Do you not know that you can also upload your own media rips to Plex? Is that still a “pirate tv service”? At what point do you assign the (fairly negative, at least legally) connotation of piracy to a service someone is hosting out of their homelab?