Sorry… watching a sponsored video for world of tanks for the 10th time, or simply safe, or whatever other garbage is there isn’t going to make me want to purchase it.
I value my time… If I didn’t use sponsor block, I’m still going to skip right past it… This, just does it for me.
Well, I use plex, because I have used plex for a decade, and it just works.
That being said, if I were to use an alternative, Jellyfin is quite fantastic. I actually have a pod running it, just in the event that plex pulls a stupid move, causing me to lose faith in its platform.
But, that being said, I like the plex interface more then Jellyfin, and have grown accustomed to it.
Also, Kodi while powerful and extensible… just feels like a bear compared to Jellyfin.
They are going to feel pretty damn stupid when nobody can buy/rent/watch/listen to their content and products…
Because, ya know… any product which can play any form of media, has the potential to infringe on IP…
I say, give them EXACTLY what they want. Give them, a week or two with zero profits, and see how quickly they change their tune.
Partly due to the fact… lemmy itself, basically has no moderation or administration features at all…
So, the only way to assist with that issue, is stricter enforcement up-front.
Besides, if someone doesn’t wanna take the time to have a verified email, and literally type 49 when registering an application… I really don’t wanna take the time to worry about having to potentially worry about them being spammers/etc.
I never noticed outages stopping
I am in the same boat. If it were not for these posts, I’d have never noticed lemmy world was down.
If I post to, or put a comment on something from lemmy world, it will just federate over when it’s back online.
If someone posts to something on lemmy world, it will eventually federate over my way.
But, hey, everyone is gonna fuss when they decided to put all of their eggs in one basket and now, that one basket gets targeted. (metaphor for lemmy world.)
I’d give it 5 years… and I’ll prob have a petabyte of all flash…
5 years should be enough time to start finding enterprise all-flash arrays on ebay, right?
I have a single server pushing 140t, and 10t or so scattered between my other servers.
Oh, that’s some bullshit then.
I think the change hit my computer last week. After it happened once, I went and found that damn setting and changed it.
Pretty asinine Microsoft doesn’t just use the default browser.
While, a really stupid design… its not technically forced… You can change the behaviour.
Again, its really stupid though.
Just wait until you get where I am… I am pushing north of 140T of overall storage right now, lol. And, it keeps growing.
The files are still stored on a NAS.
But, Jellyfin/Plex has the advantage you get a nice pretty “app” that works on your TV/Roku/AndroidTV/etc. It handles transcoding if needed, keeps track of what you have watched, and lets you know when new things pop up.
For me, that would have been over 15 years ago. Even my NAS from 2014 was pushing 16T or so.
/shrugs. Oh well.
Can’t if you wanted to, they have registrations closed.
Reason #1,201 that creating https://lemmyonline.com was a fantastic idea.
I am with you. It’s all a matter of convenience to me.
Steam, does a pretty good job of what it does. As does GOG.
Now- EA/UBI can suck a big fat one… but, steam/gog are good so far.
Regarding media, I am with you 100%. It’s strictly a matter of convenience. Back in the 20-teens, I didn’t even have a plex server running, as netflix was able to handle the majority of my media needs.
When, every fucking network created their own streaming service, and partitioned all of the media behind their own subscriptions, I said fuck that. The collection of linux ISOs keeps growing now.
When it is easier for me to use plex to streaming my Linux ISOs, rather then to use a paid service- THAT is the problem. And, that is why they can get my middle finger.
You technically aren’t wrong.
But, in my case, I already had all of the capacity paid for regardless. I’d say, lemmy runs me around 20-30w of load total.
30w * 24 hours * 30 days = 21,600Wh / 1,000 = 21Kwh * 0.08c = 1.68$ per month.
In reality, the power load is quite a bit less, and my calculations don’t account for the solar panels on my roof.
Given, I have around 140-160T of total storage capacity, its not really worth putting a price on the small amount used by lemmy. My internet is paid regardless, and lemmy usage is typically pretty low (typically measured in Kb/s). So, not really worth putting a price here, as it averages less then 1% of my total connection.
If, I wanted to put a price tag on it, my labor to actually support and maintain it, would be where all of the money went to.
There are third party solutions which helps a bit.
For example, Lemmy-helper from RocketDerp. https://github.com/RocketDerp/lemmy_helper
But, I’d imagine with this recent growth, its only a matter of time before better administration and moderation tools start appearing in the native GUI.
I’d gladly donate a few TB, but Not about to fill my entire array for books i’ll never read…