Yeah, exactly. My options are roughly: I find a working server, or make my own with blackjack and hookers. And give my friends a free invite.

If you watch on your TV/streaming stick in a browser you get exactly zero support for any picture-enhansements. Not to mention remote controls etc. It can be dealt with but not ideal.

Needed a cracked version for Android. I’d pay them 5$ or whatever, but they insisted on a ludicrous subscription. There’s a very limited TV support. Web app is glitchy.

We switched from Plex to emby and the difference is night and day.

I’d pay for Netflix if they stopped removing and geolocking content. As it is, I can legally acquire half of the content I want to watch. In order to get all of it, I need a vpn to the default country a valid default country credit card, and a subscription to 5 services. I’ll rather set up a seedbox with jellyfin than play their dumb games. But why wouldn’t I pay someone to just do it for many of us instead? This labor scales very well.

bingo. Why is it such a difficult concept. It makes sense to centralize work, that’s it.

They don’t remotely control the public as you might think. Let’s imagine at Walmart going full vegan tomorrow. What do you think will happen?

I forecast bankruptcy. You, I guess, imagine half of the dumbfuckistan going vegan?

find a paid plexshare. Cheaper than Netflix, has everything, no weekends wasted on being a devops

p.s. sorry I didn’t look where I’m posting. I’ma open notselfhosted