I believe you. I feel that way about iTunes (trauma intensifies).

But Jellyfin doesn’t have that reputation.

TL;Dr: They want the Hong Kong leader to focus on the renovation company’s possible corruption, not the bamboo that didn’t burn.

The Hong Kong leader responded to the fire by promising to replace (traditional Hong Kong) bamboo scaffolding with (mainland China) steel, because they’re claiming it might have been an accelerant.

Residents argue that this is a distraction (most of the bamboo is still standing) from the real issue: the company doing the renovation/maintenance seems shoddy/corrupt and should be investigated.

At this point, the article gets unfocused and jumps around a lot.

By the end, she’s talking about the upcoming elections being compromised by the Chinese government.

I set up Plex on my mum’s TV and she can just push play. The UI is intuitive (read: familiar) to her.

Jellyfin has a reputation for giving users more control and customizability, but the other side of that coin is that it’s more “fiddly”.

My users don’t want to fiddle.

I’m betting 650 (PS5 Pro price), with a controller.

Any higher, and the market vanishes.

PC gamers with that much extra money can just build their own, and probably with better specs.

Console gamers will skip a v1 offering that costs more than what they’re used to, especially if their game catalog doesn’t carry over.

So Plex has downgraded to [insert the word below feature parity] with Jellyfin.

I read that. (I literally mentioned features not being paywalled in the original comment.)

If the key doesn’t unlock features, what does it unlock?

Do you get a little thank you message from the devs when you enter it in? Does it add a “Supporter” tag next to your name on the app settings?

The practice exists in both software and games of adding paid cosmetics (e.g. Discord or Deep Rock Galactic) that don’t change the core featureset but allow users to pay more to support the developers, so I think it’s a valid question.

It’s past time for Apple to start killing some darlings with the Vision Pro, but I truly hope it doesn’t go too far and kill the whole platform.

I sincerely thought this thing was already dead and buried.

Haven’t heard a peep from Apple about it in months.

What does the $100 server key unlock (besides “supporter status”), since features aren’t paywalled?

The post on… the opensource Lemmy community for self hosters. Is that the one you’re talking about?

The marketing claims it’s “a gift for your family”.

Not a single comment in that first link mentions family members using it.

Here are the comments from the “people listing their use cases” you mentioned:

• wow, this looks awesome!
• it might be nice to have the a local storage option
• I really wish it has a linux native app and an android app, hopefully in f-droid
• As the admin of the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community

My issue isn’t the app itself or it’s users.

It’s the claim that it’s “a gift for your family”.

So this Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever!

What is this marketing?

I cannot imagine a single person who would want this for Thanksgiving.

Most people under the age of 30 use social media now to “preserve memories”.

The people who care about journaling probably have physical paper journals and wouldn’t want an app.

And the people who would want an app… would probably already have installed this themselves.

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