Oh god,I have to pay $3 to use someone else's code to stream my stolen media 🤣
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Plex prices are expensive just to access your own media.
I’m as guilty as the next guy, but it’s nearly never our “own” media.
That's the fun part of Plex: they're a commercial company that earns money by facilitating piracy. I wonder when they'll be investigated or sued by the RIAA
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.
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Good bot :)
And first I’ve seen on lemmy!
Very good bot. Having an easy on ramp for new people is so important.
I have been using Jellyfin for over a year, brilliant thing. Makes it very easy to stream my media; I have one client catered to music, and the main one for movies/TV shows.
I run both side by side and I'm very thankful that Plex exists. Jellyfin is my backup app and would be very painful to get setup in my families houses.
If only my TV had a Jellyfin app, I could switch, but alas it doesn't. Got to use Plex if I want to watch stuff from any home streaming thingy. That said, it's free to do that, at least.
I just don't have the money or time to buy an external box and fiddle with it to get it running these days either, otherwise I'd build a modern version of the XBMC server I used to have in days gone by :-(
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