Fun fact, Bloctel, the service that was supposed to allow us to ask not to be harassed, leaked last week... https://www.universfreebox.com/article/596529/piratage-de-bl...

  Gov: valued at $129 million and reinvest that same amount in additional generating capacity


  Duke: will reinvest nearly $129 million in additional generating capacity, which may include

  > The smell of fried croquettes

But yeah, this description matches the city I live in here in France.

  > I want a job without unnecessary friction, without interpersonal drama, even one that's low stress.

Doesn't matter if the actual job is filling glasses of water or building rockets; as long as I can focus on it for 100% of my working hours, I'd see it as an "easy" job.

I'm not really into botany itself, but I enjoy their rants about how people manage "green" spaces

  > They also, for reasons I simply cannot fathom, go out and buy a green Range Rover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgO0tgWNWYs

You can clearly see who are the consulting people, and who are the HR/marketing ones based on who's got fake smiles, and who looks like they are dead inside.

Not only it's more of a redflag than anything, but also, since they are all doing it, what's the goal?

  > for example, you wouldn't hire a 70 year old writer for your commercial project no matter how brilliant they are

And after that it's Mumbai, 2500km away. That will easily double your latency, which is someone that you can feel in usage.

Being a laptop, the power draw is almost negligible and it doesn't take much space.

I always have a hard time with this one because, in French, it's not a towel that is thrown: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jeter_l%27%C3%A9ponge

The French version version naturally comes to my mind, even when I'm thinking in English, and then I can't find the translation because it's too close, yet so different.

It was nice having a chat here because you felt more nuanced than in the article and we basically agree overall!

I just checked: my "com.plexapp.plugins.library.db" is 24Mb. Meanwhile, I have some custom apps with SQLite db's that are >10Gb and I don't have performance issues.

So I don't see how big a library have to be for its db to become a bottleneck?

I can see how scary the price increase on the Lifetime pass looks, and I see it as a deterrent to push people to something like the 5 years plan which looks like a good deal to me

The pricing around Remote Watch Pass is a bit weird to me because I haven't got any complaint from people access my server, and I know they don't have any kind of pass, so I'm not sure why it should be needed?

But having to pay 30/year to access someone else's server, who's already paying a regular Pass and the infra, sure seems abusive

Not only does it acknowledges that Plex is still far better than Jellyfin with its whole ecosystem, but it also depict pretty nicely the entitlement of the users overall.

On one side, they paid $75 more than five years ago for a piece of software for which they still receive weekly updates. On the other, they talk about how leadership at Jellyfin decided to throw the blanket after a burning themselves out for free.

Up till now, Plex kept their promise regarding the Lifetime pass: we still receive updates, we still have all the features. So, unless they change that, they haven't broken their promise. It seems only fair from them to try to run a sustainable business, which you can do without renewed income. They have to find money. They raise subscription price: no impact on existing Lifetime pass owners. They add ad-supported features: no impact on existing Lifetime pass owners. I don't see a single add wherever I access my Plex library, I have hidden their "free" library. I still have 100% of the features I had when I bought the Lifetime pass. Except that I have now access to more features.

Sure, nobody forced them to say "Lifetime", but I don't see how I could be mad if they decided to release a completely new version that is out of the Lifetime scope. I would still have access to the old one, but if I was interested in the new one, I would have to move to one of their new plans, that looks more sustainable in the long run.

Plex is still the easiest one to use for regular user or for the people, like me, that act as IT support for their family and friends, and don't want to spend their evenings and weekends tweaking their aunt's TV just for the sake of using Open Source software.

  > and has full Postgres support from the get-go

Then I went on siloserver's website and I was even more confused.

What made the success of Plex is how easy it is to setup, how nice it looks and how easy it is to use.

Siloserver's marketing miss all those points because they focus on the tech stack, don't show a single picture of the UI and don't demonstrate the UX.

Even as someone who understands the tech written on the website, I don't see the point. So I can easily imagine how someone without the technical knowledge would feel about this...

To me, a project that young, with a unique developer at the helm, cannot look "that nice", so I can't resist seeing it as too nice to be true, and being actually a scam or whatever.

I know that, thanks to AI, a solo dev can not only orchestrate an actual projects in a few days, but can ALSO take time to make a good looking README.

When, in the past, the focus was first on the code, then on the README.

https://sourcegit-scm.github.io/ on Linux