That makes sense. I’ve only hosted Plex through a proxy or VPN anyway for networking and security reasons, but it’s pretty shitty to force it just out of greed.

I am also planning to move to JellyFin, but more out of open source fanaticism than financial reasons.

That isn’t how it used to work.

Why would they care what subnet the request is coming from? That’s wack.

Can you give me an example of remote direct access that would be blocked? You can use nginx to forward your public IP to your Plex and it’s fine, you can forward ports directly on your router and connect to your public IP, you can use a VPN to connect from a different network; what are they limiting? It’s the same hurdle you have to overcome with Jellyfin. Relays are convenient, but they also cost money.

You can use ZeroTier to connect from anywhere. It only makes you pay to use the plex router/relay.

If you connect with the IP address it doesn’t charge you. You can use ZeroTier to connect from anywhere.

Right, the $2 is to use the relay service, which costs Plex bandwidth. They can’t just do it free for everyone forever, bandwidth costs money.

The $2/mo is for the Plex relay service. If you access the server directly it should be free.

I know this is Lemmy where we’re all on Linux already, but a lot of people out there still use Windows, and that’s a massive source of income and control for Microsoft that people could stop using. At the very least they could cancel OneDrive.

There’s that, but also Larry Ellison is a fucking monster and massive Trump booster. The Paramount deal that got rid of Colbert was due to the Ellison family owning Skydance, which just acquired Paramount.

Also Oracle is an enemy of OpenSource, they acquired Sun and MySQL and OpenOffice, then attempted to destroy them. Oracle can rot in hell.

Microsoft is worse than Google, Oracle is worse too. I mean yeah, boycott Google, but fuck Microsoft and Oracle extra hard.

Yes, and if you watch the interview he was a lot more explicit. The monologue and skit were satirical, but they still had some bite.

I briefly got into Eve when the science and exploration path got added, but I bounced off largely due to the player base. Why go out and find rare blueprints just so assholes can use them to grief people. Eventually you realize the only way to win is not to play.

The deaths from Obama’s drones were no less judicial than the deaths from Bush’s troops, both were carried out within the definition of the ‘war on terror’, which was approved by Congress.

Trump’s strike on that Venezuelan boat was outside of the approved scope.

And if it’s SQLite (which I believe is the default) it’s really just reading and writing a file on the file system.

I have absolutely encountered this online and offline, a lot of people understand the attack as being justified by the oppressive conditions the Gaza strip was kept in. Personally I think it’s possible for two opposing things to both be bad/wrong.

I think there’s a lot of people who don’t like Israel or Hamas. It’s complicated by the fact Hamas is more like a political party than a nation. If it was Israel vs Palestine I think more people would support Palestine.

And play fetch with Commander.

The national guard of the 1600s was organized around fighting american indians to assist with the colonization of North America.

The modern national guard wasn’t formed until the Dick Act of 1903, after which they were almost immediately used to suppress labor strikes. You can look into the Colorado Labor Wars or the Ludlow Massacre for some contemporary examples.

They already live in different states; New York for AOC, New Jersey for John Stewart. They both start with ‘New’, but they are not the same state.

They aren’t saying “religion bad”, that’s a strawman. The sentiment is that theocracies are bad, which seems pretty obvious. In much the same way police states are bad; there has never been a theocratic regime that hasn’t used their power to oppress other religions.

Theocracies oppress religious minorities in much the way ethnostates oppress ethnic minorities, and patriarchies oppress women and gender minorities. We don’t need to structure the state around religion like that, it’s a recipe for disaster.