These motherfuckers never even learned what a prefix was in 4th grade.

😬

It sounds so dramatic and I know people roll their eyes when I say things like that, but it’s absolutely true.

The deeper I’ve gone with Linux over the years the more Windows seems (aside from the obvious privacy concerns and generally being trash corporate citizens) like an intentionally convoluted and overcomplicated mess.

Well, I can tell you how Jellyfin differs from a directory full of files, but I can’t help you with understanding that other people have different preferences and desires than you which are neither “conditions” nor “addictions.”

You’ll have to make it to that one on your own.

You are imagining how to use a computer filled with video files.

Now imagine having your own personal netflix available on a variety of devices, using just that one computer full of video files.

Emby

Jellyfin exists because Emby was only open source until it wasn’t convenient. Some of their own devs pointed out they were violating the license, and their response was… non-ideal.

So Jellyfin was forked with the last fully open-source Emby code.

At least that’s my recollection several years down the line.

I decided then that no amount of headache from Jellyfin (and let me say that I was an EARLY jellyfin adopter AND former Plex user) would be enough to get me to use Emby. (Because things like that are important to me, though I realize they aren’t important to everyone.)

And reading this thread I’m apparently a super-genius because I have my Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy and serve it to my elderly parents with a simple login and an app they were able to install, and never found it to be a headache. (Which, if I’d read this thread only, I’d conclude was just not possible without voodoo magic)

No headaches along the way, and whereas Plex had already begun the march to enshittification when I left, Jellyfin has done nothing but steadily get better.

Anyhow, longer answer than intended, but I’d go back to Plex before I’d go to Emby, just on principle.

Odd, since my Jellyfin sits behind a reverse proxy.

That’s part of “techie reasons” for me. 😁

Well, after years and years and years and years of hating Microsoft for techie reasons, then privacy/“telemetry” reasons, and removing them in all ways from my life wherever possible, now I can hate them for being morally bankrupt in other ways.

On the plus side, they continue to validate my nearly twenty years of touching their software only when paid to do so.

Good point that makes sense!

Sure, but if fetuses are people, you should be able to take out a policy at about 6 weeks.

Ok, how would you feel If I told people to vote third party then?

Buddy, it’s still a semi-free country. You can tell people whatever you like.

Good day to you.

I am so fucking tired of the “vote blue no matter who!”

Can you point to the part of my comment where I said anything at all about voting for Democrats? Because I’m pretty sure I wrote a very lengthy comment about Republicans and Conservatives.

Giving R more power at any level is laughably foolish. Everyone understands that today, I just hope people remember it this time.

I also included this:

(and don’t come at me with some shitty whataboutism - D sucks in their own way as a group, but that way is not this way)

And you gave me hundreds of words of whataboutism. 😂

I hope it was cathartic for you to get all that out, though.

No Republicans. No excuses. No exceptions.

I fucking love it.

Proof that they only scream when they are getting stabbed themselves.

If folks can somehow retain one and only one thing if we get through all this without civil war:

R wants power, and they want to hurt anyone who doesn’t fit a fairly narrow demographic. That’s all they have ever wanted, and every policy or position out of R in the past many years is all the proof you need.

When R gets power they start breaking shit and hurting people. It’s the only outcome of modern conservatism. And when they say “enough is enough” it’s ONLY because the policies they supported and cheered for finally start to blow back on them.

IF we make it through this folks, DO NOT FORGET. Don’t vote R ever again, not for the lowliest local position, not for the highest position. Not for any position. I’m in my 50s and I’m telling you all that hate and control over those not like them are the only things from Republican mouths in as long as I’ve been old enough to pay attention. How polite they are about it has waxed and waned, but the direction they push for has always been the same.

(and don’t come at me with some shitty whataboutism - D sucks in their own way as a group, but that way is not this way)

Edited to add -

I’m telling you all that hate and control over those not like them are the only things from Republican mouths in as long as I’ve been old enough to pay attention. How polite they are about it has waxed and waned, but the direction they push for has always been the same.

This is so true that they tried to convince people it wasn’t true with a targeted rebranding in the 90s. I don’t think anyone bought it even then. Compassionate Conservatism

How awesome thank you!

The people cheering it on think it’s patriotism. Then there still seems to be maybe a third of us who think this was just another election we had in 2024.

The rest of us know, and are appropriately freaked the fuck out.