In a funny way the spam flood has helped lemmy if anything. The maintainers are finally addressing mod tools, and a few mod bots have matured enough to be able to run. I agree, short term it’s not great, but the script kiddies over in Japan I think ended up helping lemmy more than hurting it

If we think of “reddit caved” as the only condition then yes it failed. If we add in others like “content providers left” and “quality of content dropped”, then from what I read that is true. So they stained their name pretty badly, and I’m happy enough with that. And hey, it brought us here

I remember at it’s worst spam being every third post on insta and FB.

And by spam I mean ads.

And by at it’s worst I mean so far.

So I’m still very happy with the switch

Windows for no, but going to switch it hopefully to chimera

Straight rip from disc. Bandwidth was never a problem with Plex. However another comment got me up and running.

That’s how I did it. Ask a question that would be easy for anyone wanting to join, and manually accept. For my instance I never want it so big that I have to automate it anyway.

Literally was setting this up yesterday. Good thing I didn’t finish yet …

So far this is working pretty well! Shame it’s such a pain doing the extra step

Should that matter for direct play? On Plex I never used hardware acceleration and focused on my media player being able to play everything. My client is a full PC, with an Nvidia GPU on Windows. The client doesn’t seem to be using it from what I can tell.

Am I misunderstanding this? Is a client setup here different from the server?

Yeah, there have been posts saying “They’re going subscription!!” and that’s why I made this one. They’re not going subscription. It makes me hella nervous that they might go subscription, but for now they’re not. I’m alarmed and watching, but my pitchfork is still in the shed. …for now.

I’m hoping security updates are always included, but new features could be gated by lifetime/subscription. But no word on that yet.

That move by them is what makes me so nervous about things like this. I will never not be angry, I left that company the second they announced our lifetime memberships were useless. “You get 3 whole months of the new subscription because we’re nice like that.” No way, I was out.

I hope unraid treats us better, but I’m nervous as hell.

This is where I’m conflicted. Software development is hard and it’s expensive. I completely understand that the old model was unsustainable.

HOWEVER - I’ve seen this a dozen times before. They make a move that’s not great but it is understandable with the community. It’s the next move that I worry about, when all of a sudden there is a subscription, or those old “lifetime” plans suddenly aren’t lifetime. I remember PlayOn TV suddenly saying “Well now it’s PlayOn Home. That’s a new product, so you did get the lifetime of the old PlayOn TV! So we didn’t really reneg on our deal!” Immediately in the garbage.

So, I’ll be staying on for now… with a big “we’ll fuckin’ see” in the next few years.

Okay no, if you’re going to post on it at least get your facts right.

To be clear, I’m not happy about it, but that doesn’t mean we need to only present half the story.

There are THREE levels. Starter, Unleashed, and Lifetime.

Starter and Unleashed are both full lifetime keys, but only offer one year of updates. Verbatim from the post:

These will function similarly to the current Basic, Plus, and Pro licenses, with the main difference being that the Starter and Unleashed licenses will come with one year of software updates. After that, customers will be able to pay an OPTIONAL extension fee, which makes them eligible for another year of updates. If you choose not to renew, no problem.

However all current licenses are grandfathered

Again, this change does not apply to any current license holders. You will still be able to access all updates for life, as promised. Lifetime is the same lifetime as before.

https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

I don’t like this, and I definitely have been burned with grandfather clauses before, but you might as well report what is actually happening if you’re going to make a post.

I urge you to delete this post as it only contains half the story.

EDIT: OP I’m an admin of my own instance, I can SEE you downvoted me. Why because you decided to leave out half the information and I pointed it out?

How do we (either here or on mastodon) subscribe to magazines there? All I see is a link and a thousand requests for me to sign up

Oh, then no. As someone who heavily uses LinkedIn for my professional life and the fediverse for my personal, I would not use it. Fediverse is great for my personal life, LinkedIn is free and already used abundently. It’s how I’ve gotten my last several jobs. I would see no benefit in paying for a smaller less used service.

I think most people would agree with me, why pay for something that would have less recruiters and less benefit than using LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a sell out’s game, sure, but I’m not exactly going there because I want to give out crunchy granola vibes either.

I’m honestly looking at your idea, and really I am.

I think you’re trying to solve spam by making it a paid service, but paid and walled gardens go directly against the fediverse, whose protocol can be read and submitted to by anyone. So it’s either a paid walled garden, in which case it’s LinkedIn, or it’s open.

Instead, I’d say that you’re going for a verification system, to say I am this person and I am willing to prove it is. I think this could be done, and your platform would only care about others who are verified. Spammers aren’t willing to prove who they are, and for most of the fediverse I could see them going against something like a verification system. However on a platform like linked in that’s different, you could have a verification system and it’d be to its benefit.

My 2 cents at least

Container should have negligible overhead, the main problem you’re going to see is where the in/out files are located and shared. Another plus there for docker, can map that volume to anywhere.

If you need a GUI, then handbrake with a web version sounds great, when I did it years ago they didn’t have it.

Since then, I’ve learned ffmpeg and use that regularly and can schedule jobs well now. Definitely more advanced, but more built for server applications.

Literally the opposite of the point of the whole community there bud

Yes you can just spin up a container just like jellyfin.

Yes it’s nice for a one stop shop buuuut trust us, just audiobookshelf. You’ll thank us later