But you’re not “locked in” with Plex, because as everyone in here keeps saying - JellyFin is so wonderful it only takes 15 minutes to set up. That means if Plex ever does screw over lifetime pass owners, unlikely as it is, then within 15 minutes they’ve switched to JellyFin. Easy.
Who really cares if you see some ads for 2 seconds before you press the Plex button?
You were on the right track but came to the wrong conclusion.
They’re pricing the lifetime pass out so no one buys it. The goal is to get everyone that doesn’t already have one to get a monthly subscription.
They’re not going to screw over the existing lifetime pass owners because those are the people that helped get the company to where it is today. They’re the people who bought it just to support the product, not because it was needed.
Marathon? Slow death? 🤣. It’s already circling the drain. It won’t see out the year - and neither will Bungie.
Where is the trump admin supporting censorship?
Why? Exactly for this reason lol. So people like you will buy the game instead of pirating it.
The purpose of DRM free games is to have no DRM, not to also give you access to bonus features that are tied to a service.
As a long time car nut, this is like blasphemy. You basically destroy everything about the car that made it what it was by doing this. It’d be like putting a 4 cylinder engine in an RX-7 - sure it looks the same, but it’s not an RX-7 at that point.
The article is based off a false premise right from the get go, and their first line even points this out.
Microsoft has reportedly begun canceling most of its direct Claude Code licenses, according to The Verge, instead moving engineers toward using GitHub Copilot CLI.
This is just common sense. Why pay for Claude licenses when Claude’s models are in GitHub copilot, which they own and is integrated directly into their dev programs? It’s not scaling back AI.
And while the cost of ai compute can get very costly very quick, having talented developers using the AI tools enables them to get through mountains more work than they could without it, so it’s really paying for higher “productivity”/throughput.
That’s the same deal as Plex - people bought it as a thank you to developers as it basically gave you very little extra at the time.
Realistically, my ~$50 plex lifetime pass has been the best value purchase I’ve ever made in terms of hours of use to dollars spent. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of hours have been put on it.
Why? That investment is paying off as it’s now significantly higher priced and has more features behind it.
Jellyfin is not as good as Plex. The client is worse, the streaming options are worse, and the remote streaming and sharing is insecure and costs extra to do even remotely, pun intended, securely.
It’s not just the engine, it’s literally every single driving characteristic too.