Yeah I want to completely switch off of Plex but neither is a good solution for my non tech family members. Mother in law is in a retirement center where they use wifi provided for the condos so I can’t access her router. And I would expect her ip to occasionally change on reboots etc. I might try IP ranges or narrow geo blocking.

I thought there was some way to use Jelly on the backend with a Plex client!

Jellyfin over Plex?

How does that work with Roku/smart TVs?

This experience has also made me consider changing the license of Spegel, as it seems to be the only stone I can throw.

Dude used MIT license without knowing why GPL exists, then got upset. If you use MIT, you use it because you absolutely do not care if your work is appropriated by others, especially corporations.

It’s like he put furniture on the curb with a “free” sign on it and now is upset his stuff is being sold at an antique store.

He has no reason to be salty because he had in effect told Microsoft to take everything and don’t give anything back. So yeah, he should change it to GPL like yesterday. GPL was created because of the problem he has now faced.

Wouldn’t it be January 2nd? 1/2

I didn’t see tokens/s anywhere?

So you are leaving your laptop behind as the server?

What’s your budget? I’d build a separate server but that’s me. I would think you could get old hardware practically free that would run your services fine by checking Craigslist and your local recycling center.

If Bosch had sold the dishwasher with a rinse button, and then disabled it via a firmware patch, I would be pissed as well.

When Bosch disables old Home Connect users in 15 years, that’s exactly what will happen.

so they could be screwing me if they want.

They are screwing you. There was no reason for them to spend development money and servers that require constant money for maintenance to disable features on your dishwasher if there wasn’t profit.

As I said, I didn’t know. I bought the exact same model that I bought the year before that didn’t need an app. I considered returning it but I have kids and dishes to do. I spent hours installing it only to find it wanted an app when I went to use it the first time.

New dishwashers are all slow because of energy/water savings. When I need dishes done fast I use the 60 minute setting that runs everything at full blast.

But as I already explained, that’s not true. They gave you the illusion of value add by removing features. Look at your exact model, built in, from 3 years ago. It has buttons for half load, delay and delicate. It’s easier to push a button than find your phone and start the app. If your Internet is temporarily down, you don’t have those features.

If the app was used for additional features, I’d agree. But they removed features to give the illusion of value add.

Even in my very high end Bosch ($1800 one), they removed buttons from their older version and put it into their revenue extraction cloud.

The exact same model from the previous year had a “half load button”. The new one requires you to register with their cloud service and use the app.

So the app only appears to give more because they removed features from the previous version.

As the video explains, if it was optional to add features, that’s fine. But you can’t access basic features like “rinse only” without connecting your dishwasher to their cloud service.

It’s offensive. I got a Bosch last year because my other Bosch is good. I saw the cloud requirements and got enraged too. I should have sent it back. But I had the higher end version that has the time screen and put only the more obscure features behind their cloud revenue extraction.

Fuck Bosch.

Yay! I get to repost my comment about Disco Season 5 that got me banned from Ten Forward:

Regarding how the writers failed with their Spore Drive conclusion in Season 5:

The idea of the lone inventor wasn’t even true a hundred years ago. When I took a history of technology class at University over 30 years ago, that fact was driven into us. All discoveries are the result of researchers standing on the shoulders of giants. Destroying all Spore drive research is meaningless because there are hundreds of billions of people spread across thousands of planets. The Federation isn’t even the entire Alpha quadrant so there are hundreds of billions of other people with no restrictions. So someone else is going to almost immediately re discover spore drive because the technology and knowledge base for its discovery are built into society.

I hope the above opinion doesn’t get me banned here too.

They used ceramic instead of original spray painted Styrofoam? Where’s the commitment to authenticity?

I got my Picard tea cups two weeks ago.

I sort of agree but it doesn’t seem that clear. Because in many other instances she risks many to save a few or even one.

With the current Minecraft monthly updates, paper is always behind on the latest features. There are also minor problems that paper introduces with its performance improvements.

Years ago paper was critical for a good Minecraft experience, but a newer PC (newer than 6 years old) runs great on vanilla.

So if you’re planning to have the kid play on Switch or something like that, it’s not going to work.

You can run Geyser (a modified Minecraft server) to let bedrock clients play on your Java server.

I have a lifetime Plex pass but am still annoyed at having to deal with “recommended” every time a device is setup or reset.

The recommended view is useless and there is no way to make library the default view. You have to reset every source. It makes it incredibly annoying helping my family remotely to get to family videos.