Fox Corp. is making a dramatic move to expand its streaming footprint, unveiling with plans to buy Roku in a deal that values the streaming platform at $22 billion.
Really? Hm. I’ve got it installed on my main computer and it streams my videos to the TV w/o issue.
Granted, the OS on the computer is ancient and it’s an older version of Plex (at least 6 years? Maybe more…) and I refuse to let it online to update and it’s not failed me at all.
I’ve been sailing the high seas since the days of Mactella, so…
However, it is worse at transcoding, it is more of a memory hog, there’s a potential risk of Plex using your information (privacy concerns). Plex can potentially catalog what’s in your library and use that information for marketing or worst-case-Ontario, report you if you’re a pirate.
It’s a corporate entity with corporate-sized issues. You can dig deeper if you want.
Jellyfin is better. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t sharing your library with others. Even if you are, use Tailscale or some other VPN to your network to do it.
Just because it’s how you’ve always done it doesn’t mean it will always be right.
Ooof. I can see its been wise of me to keep the thing locked down on the spare laptop that’s not online.
I have many different computers, most all are dumpster dives.
As far as the torrents - I do it from my work studio and not at home simply as I am on the starter speed for internet there.
I trot my files home on a flash stick and dump them on the network drive.
Nothing is transcoded, if I need to do that, I use Handbrake.
I share my files with a flash stick. Homegirl’s old school but I will look into Jellyfin and use it if it runs on my OS - it might not. My newest system is a gaming PC from 2016 (which I do NOT use for anything but gaming) and the streaming Mac is a 2010 MBP running an unsupported install of Mojave. For my graphics work, I’m using Mavericks simply as it runs all my peripherals - and of course my programs, perfectly.
Really? Hm. I’ve got it installed on my main computer and it streams my videos to the TV w/o issue.
Granted, the OS on the computer is ancient and it’s an older version of Plex (at least 6 years? Maybe more…) and I refuse to let it online to update and it’s not failed me at all.
I’ve been sailing the high seas since the days of Mactella, so…
I didn’t say it doesn’t do that.
However, it is worse at transcoding, it is more of a memory hog, there’s a potential risk of Plex using your information (privacy concerns). Plex can potentially catalog what’s in your library and use that information for marketing or worst-case-Ontario, report you if you’re a pirate.
It’s a corporate entity with corporate-sized issues. You can dig deeper if you want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR7AmIN5wHU
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/plex-how-bad-is-it-for-privacy/26180
https://www.askdavetaylor.com/how-to-maximize-your-privacy-with-plex-media-server/
Jellyfin is better. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t sharing your library with others. Even if you are, use Tailscale or some other VPN to your network to do it.
Just because it’s how you’ve always done it doesn’t mean it will always be right.
Ooof. I can see its been wise of me to keep the thing locked down on the spare laptop that’s not online.
I have many different computers, most all are dumpster dives.
As far as the torrents - I do it from my work studio and not at home simply as I am on the starter speed for internet there.
I trot my files home on a flash stick and dump them on the network drive.
Nothing is transcoded, if I need to do that, I use Handbrake.
I share my files with a flash stick. Homegirl’s old school but I will look into Jellyfin and use it if it runs on my OS - it might not. My newest system is a gaming PC from 2016 (which I do NOT use for anything but gaming) and the streaming Mac is a 2010 MBP running an unsupported install of Mojave. For my graphics work, I’m using Mavericks simply as it runs all my peripherals - and of course my programs, perfectly.