It’s mostly a skill issue for services that go down when USE-1 has issues in AWS - if you actually know your shit, then you don’t get these kinds of issues.

Case in point: Netflix runs on AWS and experienced no issues during this thing.

And yes, it’s scary that so many high-profile companies are this bad at the thing they spend all day doing

Jellyfin is better anyway

I wish this were true, but as a multi-year Plex-to-Jellyfin migrant, I have to point out that Plex was the better software.

I still choose to run Jellyfin for other reasons (don’t like the commercial path Plex is taking, among others), but I still do miss the better reliability and larger feature set in the Plex software stack.

Just make it a tax at that point, honestly.

In Sweden, this was a relic from the time when TVs were a luxury exclusively used by rich people, i.e. when they were first introduced to the market. As TVs successively got cheaper, it became essentially a tax on every household.

Sweden did something similar for a long time, making every owner of a TV pay a license fee. Then the enforcing body tried to reclassify all computers as TVs, including smartphones, since these could technically access the online streaming version of the state-owned media. A ridiculous interpretation that was ultimately struck down in court.

All this did was cause unnecessary friction, and kept a bunch of really useless people on payroll to collect this fee.

We resolved it in the end by just making it a tax instead, and it’s never been better. Rest in piss, Radiotjänst, nobody ever liked you