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Look, some open source projects are great and some aren’t managed so well. It’s not heresy to pick and choose.

rglullis 3y ago
If you are willing to compromise on your freedom on anything, it just means that you are okay with being restricted as long as the cage is comfortable. That's not a heresy, but it is incredibly sad.
- kouru225 3y ago
  And if you’re willing to compromise your functionality for anything, it just means that you are okay with being incompetent as long as you can justify it with some strict moral ideology. That’s equally sad.
  - rglullis 3y ago
    How exactly is anyone "incompetent" for refusing to use Plex and spend some time to use, e.g, Kodi?
    - kouru225 3y ago
      Because spending time to fix and Jerry-rig a product means you’re not spending time doing something else. You’re operating on a slower time scale and you’re spending your time on projects that aren’t of primary importance.
      - rglullis 3y ago
        > Because spending time to fix and Jerry-rig a product means you’re not spending time doing something else Homo-economicus reasoning is fallacious and makes for very boring people. There is very little "Jerry rigging" around nowadays when setting up Kodi on a media PC and the time one "spends" learning pays itself in peace of mind knowing that you are building resilience and won't have to worry about things like a company exposing personal data.
        kouru225 3y ago
        That works for me, but it doesn’t work when my extended family uses the product too.
      - olyjohn 3y ago
        Right, because spending time curating your pirated media collection is very high on the importance scale... Sounds like your time would be better spent just subscribing to some streaming services and not using either Plex nor Jellyfin / Kodi.
        kouru225 3y ago
        My time would be better spent working on a project instead of explaining to my father’s girlfriend’s son how to solve whatever problem he’s having with the software. The whole point is that it’s not important and I don’t want to spend my time on it.

If you are willing to compromise on your freedom on anything, it just means that you are okay with being restricted as long as the cage is comfortable. That's not a heresy, but it is incredibly sad.

kouru225 3y ago
And if you’re willing to compromise your functionality for anything, it just means that you are okay with being incompetent as long as you can justify it with some strict moral ideology. That’s equally sad.
- rglullis 3y ago
  How exactly is anyone "incompetent" for refusing to use Plex and spend some time to use, e.g, Kodi?
  - kouru225 3y ago
    Because spending time to fix and Jerry-rig a product means you’re not spending time doing something else. You’re operating on a slower time scale and you’re spending your time on projects that aren’t of primary importance.
    - rglullis 3y ago
      > Because spending time to fix and Jerry-rig a product means you’re not spending time doing something else Homo-economicus reasoning is fallacious and makes for very boring people. There is very little "Jerry rigging" around nowadays when setting up Kodi on a media PC and the time one "spends" learning pays itself in peace of mind knowing that you are building resilience and won't have to worry about things like a company exposing personal data.
      - kouru225 3y ago
        That works for me, but it doesn’t work when my extended family uses the product too.
    - olyjohn 3y ago
      Right, because spending time curating your pirated media collection is very high on the importance scale... Sounds like your time would be better spent just subscribing to some streaming services and not using either Plex nor Jellyfin / Kodi.
      - kouru225 3y ago
        My time would be better spent working on a project instead of explaining to my father’s girlfriend’s son how to solve whatever problem he’s having with the software. The whole point is that it’s not important and I don’t want to spend my time on it.