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> own media to your own local or remote devices This was the point that made a bunch of people (me included) absolutely furious with Plex. Like I gladly pay fo
by gf000 10mo ago
> own media to your own local or remote devices
This was the point that made a bunch of people (me included) absolutely furious with Plex. Like I gladly pay for services and donate to open source projects. But it hits differently to pay for my very own hardware being used.
- jaffa2 10mo agoWhat is the difference between paying for plex to stream your own video from yourown hardware and paying to use microsoft word to write your own letter which also runs on your own hardware?
- horsawlarway 10mo agoYou still use word? --- As a more serious response - The last time I purchased MS office (decade+ ago) I paid once for a product license I could use forever. That felt fair - I buy a tool, I use it. Plex had that payment model and got a lot less pushback from the community - but this whole "we're a SaaS now!" thing is just not going to fly. I just don't trust the company anymore, and Jellyfin is absolutely great.
- ffsm8 10mo agoI don't think anyone would've had an issue with buy to use, that's not their business model however. As a matter of fact, I paid them 150€ for a "lifetime license" - because a long time ago, that was their business model. I too left for jellyfin because of their pivot to being "Netflix" as paxys phrased it. They just decided to throw away the market they established themselves into previously. Saltines should be expected at that.
- JuniperMesos 10mo agoI've been using LibreOffice (and before that OpenOffice) for a long time.