I actually jumped ship a while back. I agree that Plex is a business and they do deserve to get paid for development and infrastructure costs, but it’s the blatant enshitification that I have a big issue with.

They chose to lock a previously-free feature behind a paywall for everybody and asked for even more money to get it back. The less shitty alternative would have been to ask only the users who needed to use the relays to purchase a Plex Pass. Or, if they wanted to make it seem like a positive thing, they could have made the new subscription into an “enhanced quality” remote streaming experience that enabled higher bitrates over relays.

They gave their users the middle finger by picking the most transparently greedy option that they could get away with justifying.

Fair enough, although that actually has worse optics IMO. It goes from “this costs us money, so pay us” to “we need money, so we’re creating an artificial reason for you to pay us”

The self-hosted servers use UPnP and NAT-PMP to automatically forward the port used for media streaming.

Very, apparently.

They use UPnP and NAT-PMP1 to have clients directly stream the media from users’ own self-hosted servers. It costs them almost nothing in bandwidth to do that.

Software costs money how would they continue to developed it if not getting paid?

Apparently a hot take as evidenced the downvotes on my other comments here, but by adding things people want instead of taking away things people already have and charging more for it.

They don’t even have the excuse that they need to pay for the bandwidth costs of relaying video from servers to clients. Video is streamed directly from the user’s self-hosted server, using UPnP or NAT-PMP to make the server accessible from outside the local network.

And this isn’t a new feature they’re adding. Remote streaming was already implemented and generally available to users.

I don’t discount there being a cost in maintaining code over time, but it’s not as though they have to spend any significant employee time on improving it. They already support UPnP and NAT-PMP to have the clients connect directly to the self-hosted servers.

It would be nice if they added NAT hole punching on top of that, but it’s evidently good enough to work as-is in its current form. If they’re not even running relays to support more tricky networks (which the linked support article has no mention of), keeping this feature free costs them literally nothing extra.

No, it’s still wrong.

We have ways to do NAT traversal and hole punching on consumer routers. Failing that, UPnP and port forwarding exist. Or, god forbid, IPv6.

In the rare case that literally none of those are an option, they would have to use TURN to relay between an intermediary. That is a reasonable case to ask the user to pay for their bandwidth usage, but they don’t have to be greedy fuckers by making everyone pay for it.

This is enshittification and corporate greed. Nothing more, nothing less.

Even if they do, protests and boycotts need to continue past it. A lot of his wealth is in Tesla stock, and he’s going to benefit from the shadows if the public moves on and TSLA recovers.

Comparatively speaking, politicians here are pretty inexpensive. It only took one twat a couple hundred million to own the president.

No, but yes.

Everything Reddit does these days is for the sake of the shareholders, advertisers, and Spez’s whims. They’re not intentionally trying to destroy Reddit the website as much as they’re trying to turn it into algorithmic social media slop that promotes doomscrolling and advertising revenue over community and genuine human interaction.

Throw in a sprinkle of Spez aspiring to be Elon Musk’s left shoe, and you have absurd censorship designed to drive away dissenters and users who don’t conform with Reddit’s target audience.

You’ll never believe it, but I just invented a new type of AI a few seconds after reading your comment.

I call it OSIRGT: One-Shot Immediate Regurgitation Generative Transformer.

It starts out as an empty model of variable-count weights ranging from 0 to 255 between a linear sequence of parameters. Whenever you feed it training data, it uses the incoming stream of bytes to adjust the weight at position n to log2(2^k) * n^0 where k is the incoming byte. After a weight is updated, n is increased by 1 and the process repeats until all training data is consumed. To use the model, provide a finite stream of zeroes and it transforms the 0 into another number based on the weight between the current parameter and the next one.

You may be asking yourself, “isn’t that just an obtuse way to create a perfect copy of something?”

And to that, my good human, I say: shut up and use this open-source model training program with a built-in BitTorrent client.

> FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
> Musk guts the FAA
> FAA no longer stopping rockets
> Musk decries nobody will stop other people’s rockets

DisplayPort: We have

• Higher maximum resolution.
• Better support for higher refresh rates.
• Multi-stream transport so you can use a single display cable for multiple monitors.

HDMI: Oh yeah? Well, we have

• Royalties.
• Specifications hidden behind contracts.
• An emphasis on implementing DRM technology that makes it hard to use a capture card.

Fuck HDMI.