I considered it when they warned about the increase and offered it at $75, but I just didn’t have the money to spend back then. Felt pretty stupid for not doing it, but I don’t even know what paid features they offer, and I’m clearly not missing them.
99% of my usage is at home as well, so this is unlikely to affect me - until that random 1% anyhow.
Thanks for that - I wasn’t aware of the relay service, but completely agree that this is what they should be charging for and not the remote play feature in its entirety. I’ll probably drag it out for a while by refusing to update the app and server… Might be able to make it work with Tailscale as others have suggested.
In the past I’ve paid for a month or two when I wanted to download to my devices remotely (and I think that’s the singular feature that I’ve ever cared about in the Plex pass). But to take features away and then try and charge me for them is a bridge too far, I can’t support that bad behavior.
But what infrastructure does this feature require? I’m direct connecting to my own personal server with perhaps credential handling and a handshake handled by Plex servers to connect. None of the media is passing through their servers - or it shouldn’t be if it is.
I disagree, but to each their own. You do have a potential option here:
Oops, filing FOIA requests to an empty department. They all go here now. 🗑️
I certainly haven’t read the Art of the Deal - can someone point me to the chapter where he explains the strategy of spreading misinformation about your counterparty, aggressively pressuring them to do something not in their best interest, and anger an entire continent of world leaders? Because it sure is sounding like he’ll get NOTHING and Europe will protect their own. The Felon is just racking up the wins.
100%! And, 6 generations in the tech is pretty well advanced now. I don’t mind being an early adopter, but with folding phones being so fragile and early ones having hideous and unusable cover screens for instance, I was fine waiting it out the issues until it was a bit more mature. They’re still getting continuously better, it’s a great time for anyone into the idea of a foldable.
That’s fine man, but you don’t have to tell us about it.
Agreed, from the Fold6. If you’re looking at it off axis, it’s QUITE noticeable, but during normal use when I’m looking at it head-on I don’t notice it visually. If I’m using it in landscape, I can feel it while scrolling - it’s the sort of thing that you expect to bother you, but it’s just not a big deal once you’re used to it.
It took me a moment when I saw the pic to come to terms with the fact that, for as many times as I’ve seen kcal previously, I somehow never realized it was was short hand for kilocalories. 🤯
I’m saying that he is treating all of our existing laws as guidelines that you’ll have to sue him in order to reverse. Almost as if our laws matter only if you bring him to court to defend them.
Our congress is not balancing him. No formal objection or interference as far as I know, raising their own bills with horrifying implications in the meantime. But maybe it’s an optimistic view, I think maybe corporations and rights groups and foreign countries, and wronged individuals are going to be up his ass for four years. It’s the only way we can expect the judicial branch to check the lunacy.
“Fair Use” in media and on the internet is not a legal protection, it is a defense in court. Most cases never go to court over fair use, because the billion/trillion dollar company targeting you can afford to wait you out.
Our whole legal framework has degraded to this level, I fear. They would have to defend it I think court for it to matter - and what are the chances a college aged kid can afford to.
There are rights groups that used to be a help in these matters, but if everyone everywhere is under attack, they certainly don’t have the resources to deal with everything.
The subject of the photograph is meant to be the Great Wall of China, which the name Great Firewall of China is referencing. Now tech CEOs liked what ideas the dictatorship had and want an American version. Obama is present because I believe he narrated a wonders of the world documentary, and it was just a weird choice.
citing the burdon of managing numerous pending cases.
It’s so easy to not have numerous pending cases against you in the first place. I want nothing more than for this dipshit to be stuck in court defending every one of his illegal actions taken the last 55 years. Couldn’t happen to a better person.
You better come around quick then, before tarrifs make all of our chips 100% more expensive.
Yeah, during the GPU shortage of '20/'21, I ended up buying a prebuilt so I could at least get the GPU at RETAIL price. It was at a time when flipping GPUs on ebay was all the rage and you’d be paying 25%-100% more than it was worth to a scalper.
The system integrators get a better price on parts than we do, and now many of them are selling them for less or precisely the retail price of all the components. You really have to shop around though, some “premium boutiques” like Maingear can be 50-100% more expensive than the competition… They’re selling the same product so I don’t really see the value they bring at that price, but I’m sure as hell not paying $2,000 for their tech support.
You must be getting hit by tankies, because this is a perfectly reasonable post.
I worked for a unioned grocery company for many years and there were no merit based raises, because they were negotiated years in advance and dictated by the union contract. Getting any discretionary effort was incredibly rare and difficult, because why am I going to do more and get paid trash wages for it? I’m not saying that’s the right way to think, but it’s prevelant regardless.
In a case like this, I would assume it is a budgetary thing - if your marketing campaign is budgeted at $100k, you wouldn’t want to give away a million dollars of free goods.
They missed the good times. No rush now.