Sure, so you open settings and simply disable those extras. Then you have a nice clean ui with only your libraries. It even cleans up the app when disabled so there’s only home and libraries tabs. Nothing more.
I think many people aren’t aware all the extras have disable options in plex. Essentially turning it back into plex from years ago.
Sure, but you also don’t have the option to use those features because they don’t exist in jellyfin.
In my plex instance, I have discover enabled, and enabled all the streaming services so that discover is populated with all the movies and shows available. Then I have an automation setup so I can search in discover for a movie, and add it to my watchlist, and my automation will automatically download that movie and add it to my library.
I can do it right from my couch, and its WAF approved. Using those bloat features against them, in a way.
But, its just as easy to turn those all off if one doesn’t want to utilize them. I’d be annoyed if they forced them on permanently but that’s not what plex does, but they sure get a lot of hate for just having those features.
Same, I’ve paid once, 12 years ago, and imo it was worth supporting them.
Where do you get ads from on plex!?
Meh, I went into plex settings on the server and just turned off all the bloat. Its all on one page. Not a big deal.
Because its more polished, has more platforms for clients to run on, and can be remotely shared with a simple account login and no configuration required. To name a few.
Lies. Local streaming never required a plex pass. Its for remote streaming only, but keep pushing that false narrative.
And you can go to plex settings and disable all the love channels, discover, friend activity, etc that everyone complains about. Make it a simple plex server again.
But then how will you know how much they love the smell of their own farts?
*only for external streaming.
You can cut it off from the internet and stream in your house locally for free still.
End from any external streaming perspective, they are hosting a repository with your connection and port info, so your external friends can connect without you needing to manually configure or update their settings when you make a local change. Plus they are hosting stream relays for those that are unable to make a direct connection. To me, seems fair they’d ask for payment for that service.
Only if he works 120 hours per week and takes a 99% pay cut.
Do you mean the stuff you can literally turn off in settings? Discover, other streaming services, live channels, friend activity… all that can be turned right off.
Did you dump plex after paying for it because you couldn’t turn off settings??
Again, what do you find trash? Every core feature i need works perfectly fine with plex.
See, I don’t understand that at all from you. How have they lost their way exactly? Th9jga that you can turn off in settings piss9ng you off? Are you unable to stream your content with your plex pass that you already own? Can others not stream from you? Does your content Metadata not scrape properly? Explain you comment because it seems like you’re part of the problem hating them for the sake of hating them. Getting “on the train” of hate as it were.
I’m sticking with plex personally. I have a lifetime plex pass already so no one else needs a pass to stream from my server. Aka, this changes nothing for me or my users.
I went with cachy a few weeks ago, and its been great.
I recently bought a tpm 2.0 chip for a 7th Gen intel and found out that win 11 will install on 7th Gen without any hacks when done fresh from a usb install, and it only checks for tye existence of tpm 2.0. The cpu Gen block is 100% a choice MS made it seems, likely because not all 7th Gen capable motherboards had tpm or expansion slots so they just went “screw them, all 7th Gen and lower is blocked”.
Why did you switch if you already have a lifetime plex pass? With that, it costs nothing for anyone else to stream from your server.
You can literally replace “US” with “Russia” in this title and it would still make perfect sense.
Great, now how do you deal with 30 remote streamers when your IP changes? Do you have tobsetup extra knobs just to get remote streaming to work? Are your apps refined or still buggy?
I’d personally rather deal with 5 options to turn off in settings than deal with all those extra steps and drawbacks. You really seem to have a huge hate bone for plex, so enjoy your choice, and move on.