A big part of the appeal with Plex is that you can run a server and friends can sign up for a FREE account and stream remotely. When you take this away, you’re going to just kneecap the whole offering. This is such an arrogant move from Plex: they are thinking that when this change goes live they will get a flood of subscriptions. The more likely outcome is they will get a few subscriptions and a lot more angry and frustrated people that walk away.

As you can tell, it’s been extensively researched.

That’s the best kind of proof.

I don’t think they necessarily have to get rid of it, it’s just that you can’t support a company ALONE from a one time infusion.

PR if it was honest:

Why & When Is This Happening?

To better monetize your attention and data, we’ve decided to streamline all communication into a single, ad-optimized, engagement-maximized system. Maintaining multiple messaging systems was cutting into our profit margins, so we’re sunsetting the old one — which, let’s be honest, wasn’t generating nearly enough revenue anyway.

Reddit Chat is engineered for the future (read: future monetization opportunities), unlike PMs, which were quaint relics from a time when this site wasn’t a corporate data-mining operation.

We’re announcing this change now so we can say we “listened” when it inevitably breaks the way you use Reddit. We’ve talked to a hand-picked selection of mods and power users (mostly the ones who didn’t complain too much), but there’s still time for you to provide feedback we can pretend to consider. Drop your thoughts in the comments below, where they’ll be skimmed for marketing insights.

It’s a scary amount of projects these days managed by a bunch of ZIP files:

• Program-2.4.zip
• Program-2.4-FIXED.zip
• Program-2.4-FIXED2.zip
• Program-2.4-FIXED-final.zip
• Program-2.4-FIXED-final-REAL.zip
• Program-2.4-FIXED-FINAL-no-seriously.zip
• Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this.zip
• Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this-2.zip
• Program-2.4-working-maybe.zip
• Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE.zip
• Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE-v2.zip

Project 2025 is the most double talky I’ve ever seen Donald Trump. “Project 2025? Nope, never seen it, never heard of anything in it, but it’s got some great ideas. I’m not going to follow it and I don’t have anything to do with it but I hear it has some really good ideas, but I won’t be adhering to them.”

Reminds me of the “Unite The Right” rally where he wouldn’t really condemn anyone: “Those folks are really nasty, but also there’s a lot of good folks.”

I think this is part of his “charm”. He double talks, so if you are a fan you perk up on the positives and let your eyes glass over during the bad parts.

One of the problems with America is if you ask people on the street who’s the happiest country in the world, a good chunk will answer America and not believe this result. I’ve always said the problem with being #1 (or thinking you are) is that you don’t work very hard to improve.

One metric America leads the world in: self-delusion regarding its own performance in every area. How many people say America leads in math, science, health? Don’t get me wrong, in a lot of categories the US is top 20, but very few where we actually are #1. Until this attitude is fixed, we’re not going to see real improvement. RAH RAH RAH USA #1 is nice to whip up a crowd at a rally, but it’s not good for positive ongoing change.

I keep a Jellyfin instance running as a hedge. Here’s the thing with Plex (and actually a lot of companies set up similarly): those “lifetime” memberships are a trap. Think about it: Plex gets your money ONCE but they have ongoing expenses. Sooner or later, they’ll have spent every single cent made by a lifetime membership unless they either get more folks OR squeeze everyone a bit more.

Once they started adding their own shows and making strange UI decisions, I could sense the end was coming. A move like this brings it up fast. Jellyfin is not nearly as good as Plex in a lot of ways, but it’s really Open Source.

Anyway, a lot of rambling, but in short: when there is a “lifetime” subscription, watch out!

Does anyone else get the heebies with Mark Rober? There’s something a little off about his smile and overall presence.

Ha, thanks man. It’s not for everyone but it gives me a chuckle.

This works great up until the point where a collection agency comes for your property and/or credit rating. I’m not saying don’t strike, but do it with full knowledge there may be repercussions.

If you believe someone is good and they decided to do something against the law but for good reasons, are you going to punish that person?

The answer is: some people put the law ahead of any kind of moral code they may have. Those people would be hesitant to contradict the law in such an instance.

That’s not the ocean, that’s Flat Earth Firmament Juice

Maybe it was a misspelling: “NO REALLY FLAT EARTHERS BELIEVE THIS”

Critical thinking is not allowed in this community. Consider this a warning!

If space is fake, certainly Venice can be fake at a fraction of the effort!

One of the amusing things about Flat Earth is 50% of them are profoundly unintelligent and the other 50% are there to fleece the first group. It’s not always easy to tell what group one of the members is in.

My guess is they think it was assembled and filmed on Earth, and never left the ground. These photos are the “proof”.

Kind of a perverse argument from authority.