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Plex is once again increasing the monthly price users must pay to stream their own media (if this is you, why haven’t you purchased a lifetime pass yet?)
Better yet, why have you not migrated to Jellyfin. Why are you paying someone else to view your own stuff?
The hard part about Jellyfin is that it requires your own domain and some more self-hosting knowledge that a hobbyist might not have yet.
It’s not a super hard transition, but it took me a few months on/off to learn the basics of hosting a website from my house.
I’m still trying to figure out headscale on a VPS so I can mask my home IP
Most people should be using a VPN and not exposing these things to the internet at large via proxies or port forwards.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters IP Internet Protocol Plex Brand of media server package VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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What is that picture? The blogpost doesn’t elaborate on it…
Looks like the razzia image, but somewhat hard to see on mobile
