Pop_OS really gets less love than it deserves. imo it should replace Mint as the standard go-to recc.

What?

True, yeah I read that too. Started as a hardware thing but now it’s a “this is the state of things as a result of things that were hard to change” thing.

I mean, I have more than one machine. Some can be closer to guinea pigs than others. In this case, it’s a laptop that I don’t keep anything unbacked-up on. Had Fedora on it for about 6 months and I cannot remember an update breaking anything for me so far. The previous machine I had it on was used less but I had the same experience. If you’re mainly just web browsing on a machine, bleeding edge is good imo

Yeah. I’m not saying the process went perfectly, but I think it’s good they proposed this and then nixed it. Gotta do it someday though.

I am a fedora user. I care. Why wouldn’t I? …

I think the last time I had a 32 bit CPU was around 2005 but I could be remembering that incorrectly. Supporting 20 year old hardware isn’t always easy.

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What. The. Fuck.

In the US, 411 was the number you dialed for “information” meaning to ask for phone numbers iirc. So it makes sense, you just may not have that context

You seem a little out of touch with how people think.

Gotcha. I read the tone differently, but all good.

Yeah, you have two options, as the server owner:

1. You can enter a user’s email from the Plex UI to invite a user to your library. The user then gets an email asking them to sign up if they don’t already have an account.

2. You can generate/send a link to join, any way you choose.

Once signed up, the user can accept the library invitation, then they login to the TV or other device. The code is used for the TV login process, like on other streaming platforms. But yeah, you could do an account-less version of this for Jellyfin, which I think laypeople would like.

As I said, most people don’t have that nor do they want to set it up.

No, Plex lets you invite friends to your server with a link they can click and sign up. Then they can type a code into their TV app or login to a browser and watch basically like a standard streaming setup they already probably have used.

Jellyfin is less familiar. Arguably not much more difficult but people aren’t always rational. The unfamiliar is often intimidating.

Well yeah maybe that too, but a server no one connects to is a paperweight. The connection part confuses laypeople

They prominently point this change out and kind of force you to choose whether you opt in or out. There is a single checkbox to opt out of all. But yes, it’s a bad direction. Just maybe not the apocalypse implied by some.

Apparently all your friends and family are comfortable with hostnames and ip addresses. Not everyone’s are. Also, not everyone wants to buy a static ip or setup a dynamic dns service or similar. Plex is definitely simpler. I have used both.

Oh – yeah, anything but advocating for opposing democrats at all costs is “defending genocide” to a large population of lemmy. It’s pathetic.

I can understand where you’re coming from. Sometimes people do pile on over silly things. It sucks to self-censor but I think I’ve learned just to stay quiet on a lot of the topics people will jump on me for. The worst is when people will accuse you of holding horrible bigoted views because you make a comment about how something in a post or comment isn’t exactly true. Any dissent = black and white judgement sometimes. The internet is way worse than it should be…

The response here is mild and some people are agreeing with you