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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • content being watched) on my device(s) and share that information with Plex’s advertising partners

    That is a honey pot rights holders will be falling over themselves to pay Plex for access to once they hear about it.

    Been telling anyone that would listen that they need to get out of Plex since they implemented that first iteration of trying to require you to sign into your own self hosted server with a Plex.tv account. They were telegraphing what direction they were going in with that kind of user hostile move.

    Lots of responses about how it was easy to get around so no big deal (or worse that they liked it for some coping mechanism reason) and that nothing else was as easy and feature rich as Plex so it was worth it.

    Well now a few years down the road from that they are now going to use that beach head on everyone’s Plex server they can to collect what is being watched and sell it to the highest bidder.



  • I find that Apple supports their software and services on platforms they don’t own cradle to grave while holding their nose, seemingly just so they can say they are available on other platforms. And catch a few bucks from people that don’t have their hardware but really want to watch Ted Lasso and the like legally on their Android/Roku/Fire TV device.

    Sure, it technically works, but like you have seen it is clearly a very distant afterthought.







    1. Gitlab (version control)
    2. Bookstack (wiki)
    3. Joplin (not a webapp, but sync server)
    4. Semaphore (does all of my infra updating via Ansible)
    5. Uptime-Kuma (monitoring/alerting)

    Been thinking about adding NextCloud mostly for the Google Docs/MS Office replacement at some point.

    But honestly most of my stuff is just for me, my family prefers to to use whatever commercial thing is out there. So I tend to limit things to infrastructure type things that are of personal interest to me alone.






  • This is an issue most OEMs have had with desktops and laptops forever.

    To try and squeeze every possible price range as much as possible they create these complex brand/sub-brand configurations, some of which can be even further customized by user desired specs, which ends up making the whole product offering confusing.

    As the customer, even a tech literate one that works in the IT field, trying to sort through the options on the Dell/Lenovo site is far more annoying than it should be.

    Give me the chassis size (screen size in the case of laptops) and then let me mix and match the major internal components as I need/want and call it a day.

    No one actually gives a shit what the branding is beyond “is this a Dell/Lenovo/Asus/etc”.