Just so you can see what I saw:

Very weird. For some reason Boost displays those like the strings I wrote. Looking at this in the web client now, I see ~. Which btw I’m familiar with :) Thanks for the response!

Okay what is this <sub> convention everyone is using and why is it sometimes </sub> ?

Fucking cringe answer

Piefed.social was too, on my end

I did, twice

You’re the only user catching downvotes

Yep, that sounds like the poster child for this phenomenon.

The users who are being talked about here probably don’t get that exposing your machine to the Internet carries risk. That’s the point.

Every response I read here seems to get it. Yeah, you shouldn’t do risky things without understanding them first. By all means play around with self hosting without knowing anything at first, but do not expose your machine to the Internet without fully understanding the implications and do not complain that self hosting is hard. If you think it is, you just need a bit more education. It’s already incredibly easy these days.

Did you think The Matrix was a documentary?

Because I wanted an OS that conforms to some standards, gives me freedom, and doesn’t give my data to a corporation

So lost.

… You just literally said hosting shouldn’t exist. You are using the Internet right now.

Also pretty weird to keep phrasing this as a command, discounting an entire class of use cases to be invalid because bad actors exist?

Gotcha. We’ll see, I guess.

Are you advocating for an self hosting to only exist locally? Or are you advocating for hosting everything on corporate servers?

Then they aren’t doing it correctly, or lying. That is an included/free feature. They advertise it that way and other users ITT say it works. I’ve no reason to doubt them.

I didn’t realize I did that. Given that my opinion on OSes is that “the larger the budget, the shittier it is”, I don’t knowingly do what you’re suggesting here. Linux over windows and macOS any day.

Yes, they changed the free featureset, and afaik those changes were fair. Providing a tunnel for remote streaming for free doesn’t seem like a good business plan. I mean, yeah they could always back out of the promise of what a lifetime pass is, and if they do I will find a new solution and hope they’re sued for it.

If they do back out of their lifetime commitment, I suspect that would drive some other similar apps to get better. Maybe I would even learn to live with jellyfin as it currently exists in that situation. But so far I don’t see a reason to, and that would almost have been true if I never paid for plex.

God I hate humans