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Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer (www.boredhackerblog.info)
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[–] -5 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

I'm always amazed to see there are people still using Plex.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

    I have a lifetime pass and there is remote streaming without needing to setup of a bunch of technical stuff for me and my user base. If I was only using for myself, I'd use jellyfin, but I have over a dozen users that aren't going to setup tailscale or something similar to access it. Also, I've personally never had any issues with the platform. Yes it's enshittifying, but it hasn't reached a threshold where I need to do something about it.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

    You have a lifetime pass for now.

    Edit: Sorry to break the bad news to some of you, but software companies cancel "lifetime" licenses with both contempt and impunity.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    I hate this argument. Why should anyone quit using something that works perfectly fine just because a company might do something someday?

    Jellyfin isn't going to suddenly be unavailable the day plex changes its service.

    Let people use what they paid for, and switch IF that ever comes up. It's obviously working for them.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

    I hate that argument too. Looking at the text of the comment you replied to, I don't know where you saw it.

    Edit: Can some neurotypical person please explain why the fuck I am getting downvoted?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Me too, I guess daring to offend the great Plex gods gets on peoples nerves.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Oh, yes, that's probably what it is. Thank you.

    FWIW I used Plex before and it seemed fine and I´d understand the inertia to move off of it. I just sort of got started again after exhausting the local thrift stores of DVDs I wanted, so I decided to start on a path with a better future, so Jellyfin it was.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Because "I hate that argument too" could be referring to you hating the argument that you replied to, not that you also hate the argument of the person above them. Maybe saying "I agree" would have been more clear.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    "I hate that argument too" is "I also hate that argument" which is the same thing as "I hate the same argument that you hate, the one you just said that I'm directly replying to" which is the same as "I agree."

    Literacy crisis is real.

    Edit: But thanks for explaining it, though I find it unconvincing. Do people really not know how to read "too" in this context? And with such confidence to downvote?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, the lack of streaming proxy seems to be the only real killer feature that Plex has.

    Tools like Netbird makes setting that up so easy though, it's not nearly as painful as older tools like Tailscale and ZeroTier. Even my mom was able to set it up on her devices.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Yeah. I'm only torn between Jellyfin and Emby. Emby seems to handle hardware acceleranion better without any additional setup and I find the automatic identification of my media really inconsistent between them. Sometimes I get fed up with one and move to the other and everything is automatically detected. Then as I slowly add stuff things are no longer automatically detected well. I move back to the other one and I find that lots of things aren't automatically detected.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Sometimes auto identity doesn't work on Jellyfin, but it's not too hard to update it. You sound like you're running a server for a family. I don't really add often enough to sweat the occassional manual ID.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I don't run a server for a family. I have about 7 TB of movies, TV series, and anime. It isn't hard but one of the primary jobs is that it discovers my media, identifies it, and makes it available. When it identifies things incorrectly or doesn't identify them at all and I see 10 of the same thing instead of one with 10 seasons it's a bit of a nuisance.
    It is still a relatively first world problem but I wish it did a better job more consistently.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Purely based on your last comment on 10 seasons, it might be a problem with your folder structure. Take a look at the official documentation or trash guides if you haven't done so already. Are you only using jellyfin or the arr stack as well?

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