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  • I was trying to think how Plex thinks this is going to play out, knowing that this move will piss off their customer base. Then I realized, this isn’t a play for Plex’s existing customer base. This is a play for their customer’s “friends and family” that are enjoying shared libraries already.

    Their ‘customer’ base has for many many years been developing a large user base of technologically naive people with Plex apps installed who could never run their own server. If Plex knows, for example, that for every paying customer there’s three other users pulling from someone’s library, that’s a huge opportunity for them to convert those users to paying customers.

    Everyone that set up a Plex server and then shared it with your tech-phobic parents, cousins, friends, etc… We made this possible.

    I don’t like it but I can’t argue with the logic from Plex here.

    -edit- Tightened up the grammar.



  • ashok36@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlRent is Robbery
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    7 months ago

    Some people don’t want to be locked down to one place for long. When I was in my twenties I moved to a different town every year when my lease was up just to see if I would like it better somewhere else. Or I’d get a raise and be able to afford a better place the next year. For people that want relatively short term housing, renting is a far superior option.

    If I took out a mortgage on a place and then sold it a year later, I’d have almost no equity since you pay almost all interest in the front part of the loan.


  • Get one. My wife and I used to have friction about who’s turn it was to clean the multiple cat boxes. We would go out of town and come back to a house that smelled like dirt cat box. now I just empty the bin twice a week and add a scoop of fresh litter. Takes five minutes, tops. Doesn’t matter how long we’re gone, the smell is contained.

    You need to clean the dome every few months but that’s fairly easy too if you have a hose and a sprayer attachment. The worst part is just that it takes a long time to dry.