SeriousDad69

Sorry to say, you're never getting a jellyfin app on Sony consoles, at least not from the official developers. The terms they force on developers are extremely restrictive, including forcing you to sign a ludicrous NDA and close source EVERYTHING related to the app. I believe Samsung TVs are in a similar situation. Plex, being for profit, simply has the weight and lack of moral qualms to successfully develop for those platforms. The (official) client situation is best on Roku, iOS, and tvOS I believe. There's actually multiple Android apps available from third parties, but it seems like the bulk of the official development effort is on iOS and Roku because that's what most of the users and developers are using. Something to think about next time you're purchasing a new streaming device.

Yeah Sony consoles (and Nintendo) is more than likely never happening for Jellyfin. The developers don't want to join Sony's circus of insanely restrictive NDAs and being forced to closed source everything related to any potential PS4/5 client. They tell you to just use the web browser, which honestly sounds pretty bad lol (but I haven't used a console web browser since Xbox 360, so maybe they're usable now?) Anyone could make a PS4/5 client if they wanted to, the official developers just have no interest. Other than that some clients are better than others. The Roku client is great given the limitations Roku places on everyone. JMP for Windows/Mac/Linux is great, although it could use some polish and really needs to be in the Microsoft store for auto updating. The iOS app is great, and they're working on a much better one. I cant really speak on Android or WebOS because I've never used them personally, but Android has multiple third party apps available. There's even a books/comics app for Android and iOS that is in development. Once it's complete I'm fully expect it to be the best way to read comics on my phone. I'd say check back in 6-12 months on the client situation. But if anyone is a Roku and iOS user like myself, everything is more than good enough to go right now. The most important thing is having some level of hardware acceleration available for transcoding, like a GTX 1050ti or Intel HD Graphics 630 or better. It really smooths out the experience if you have multiple devices because some are really weird with what they do and don't support.

Jellyfin was really bad until ~2021, it wasn't a good plex replacement in the slightest. As for whatever features you need, the jellyfin developers are really down to Earth. I've gotten them to implement multiple features I've wanted. There's like three or four music apps at this point, one of them might have the feature you want, or might be willing to implement it because it sounds like a no-brainer. Gelli seems promising if you're on Android, it has gapless playback and caching on its feature list. But yeah if everything you have already works and it's not costing you more money, there's no reason for anyone to even think about switching. I switched to jellyfin because it was the first to implement AV1 support, and so far I have no reason to switch back to plex. I'd double have no reason to switch if they tried charging me more or injecting ads. As for "more users = more developers", it seems pretty reasonable to assume a project with 1,000 users will have less potential developers than one with 1,000,000 users. Especially when it's not something that goes under the hood like a js library or whatever lol

Realistically, Plex probably doesn't want to rock the boat. They know the second they start trying to charge more, renege on lifetime passes, or inject ads, they're going to start losing people to jellyfin (and maybe emby). It's a snowball effect. The more people on jellyfin, the more developers. The more developers, the better the apps and features become. Jellyfin is already at the point I'd never even consider going back to plex, so yeah this isn't the time for them to rock the boat.

Reading plex news and comments always gives me a good laugh, both here and on reddit. People asking plex to charge them more money, and even wanting them to inject ads . Like they didn't actually want to get off the streaming/cable plantation, they just wanted a new master cracking the whip.

It's pretty crazy what you can get arrested just for saying in the anglo countries that aren't America. Universal freedom of speech is definitely something that the people that have it take for granted.

Realistically, why does Australia think they can do this? Does Twitter have employees or business assets located there? Just tell them to f-off, Australia isn't an important enough market to warrant paying that much or reducing freedom of speech for. It's like some states in the US are trying to defacto ban adult websites by making users upload their ID to gain access, all it did was make google searches for "VPN" in those states multiply overnight.

I'm pretty happy about this. AMD and opensource almost always go well together, like how OpenGL performance was completely busted in their crap closed source Radeon drivers for Windows for over a decade, but the opensource community on Linux fixed it for them ages ago. (I say they go well together, but it could just be that AMD just likes having their crap code fixed for them for free lol)

It's not just about listening to the music. it's the entire experience of setting everything up, placing the record, dropping the needle, etc. It's the same reason why people still play third to fifth gen games on real hardware even though emulators have been free, better, and easier for ages.

This is pretty simple to me. People that like vinyl like it because it's classic, and might even prefer the analog sound. People that like CDs don't care about format at all and are more than served just looking songs up on YouTube or listening to a streaming service.

Either way you have weeks to get your money back. If you don't find out the card is defective before the ~60 day money back window paypal gives you is up, it's your fault at that point. Ebay and paypal absolutely love to screw sellers over, that's why I always think it's hilarious how many people freakout over buying used mining cards.

More FUD about used mining cards lol. Just buy from ebay with paypal, leave the card on furmark for 12-24 hours, and if it passes you're good to go. Anyone that has sold on ebay or used paypal to receive a payment before knows, they live to screw sellers over.

They need to put these on Gen 4 & Gen 5 nvme drives.

I don't think so. It would've been a constant trickle since the cards came out, and like you said it would've been all models including Nvidia. Having a sudden dump of 50+ busted cards could just be AMD getting unlucky, but I don't really believe in luck that much.

It might be happening to a lot of cards, but most(maybe all?) 6800XTs and 6900XTs are still under warranty, so most users will just curse their luck and send it in for RMA. Take this with a pound of salt, but I read somewhere that Germany has different laws than the US regarding warranties that might give more of an incentive to send electronics to a third party repair shop instead of trying for an RMA. Looking at this channel it seems like this guy repairs a lot of user serviced cards(replaced thermal paste, new pads, etc) so maybe they cant or don't think they can get an RMA, and that revealed the issue. (Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder just how many glaring product defects are covered up by good warranty practices......)

When it rains it pours I guess. Stuff like this is why I don't even consider buying Radeon unless they're 30-40% cheaper than the equivalent Nvidia card. This is 100% anecdotal with a tiny sample size, but every AMD card I've had has died. I've had an HD 7970, R9 270, RX Fury, and they all died within 1-2 years of the warranty ending. I have GTX 900 and 1000 cards that I've given out to younger people in my family for their first builds and literally all of them are still working. Cant even remember the last time Nvidia pushed out a driver that killed cards, must've been the GTX 400 series or older.. But yeah this might not be driver related, it might not even be AMD's fault. We need more information and investigations by Buildzoid, Gamers Nexus, Igor, Derbauer, etc.

Yeah this is a good time to agree to disagree lol. I don't like installing programs for people because then I'm expected to permanently be on call to help them. Like someone else in this thread that set up LastPass for someone a week before they removed a bunch of features from the free tier. For old people the best option is legitimately just writing their passwords down in a notebook. I also absolutely avoid using extra software that isn't necessary. I've had the rug pulled out from under me too many times, just like how LastPass ruined their free tier(not that I've ever personally used LastPass). As for what I said about VPNS, VPNs are only good for avoiding copyright strikes and avoiding Government censorship in some situations. When people use VPNs in America they usually think it's good for privacy, when all it does it get "Uses VPNs" added to their marketing profile. Your IP address is only one of probably 1-2 dozen data points they collect on you and with the rise of CGNAT knowing your IP address is getting less and less valuable. Maybe if you're on a hostile network(like your work) or have a hostile ISP VPNs can add a bit of privacy, but that's up in the air. After all they can pretty easily figure out that you're using a VPN most of the time when your device is only connected to one IP address with one fat encrypted data stream.

The way I see it the autofill feature from browsers is enough to prevent entering your password on a fake website, although if you're on a fake website you've already partially failed to begin with. If I want a complex gobbledygook password I can just roll my hand across my keyboard into a text document a few times and then copy paste it, no vendor lock-in, monthly subscription, or closed source software required. Password managers sound cool on paper, but they're too complex for normal users to use, and advanced users probably aren't getting tricked into visiting fake websites or installing malware to begin with. It's just something that's relatively easy for them them to make and try charging you a monthly subscription for. And in the event of program storing your passwords in the cloud, they make a juicy target for hackers like in this case. So yeah, they're not fully snake oil, but they're getting up there with stuff like using a VPN for privacy.

This right here is why I always cringe when websites force me to have dip shit passwords with multiple uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters. Normal users just end up making their password "Football1!", and I end up with a password I cant hope to remember without the trusty .txt document on my desktop or one of these snake oil programs lol. Gobbledygook password requirements must be part of the reason why the "sitcky note on the monitor" is such an iconic thing.

IDK man, depends on what hardware the hackers have available. Apparently the 4090 is a password demolishing beast, and I doubt most people have one of those Mr. Robot "abtbgo23i2nG*&GF(*ASFUoiAHF908a()Ad" passwords. According to this video, one 4090 can crack an 8 character Windows NTLM password consisting of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters in 40 minutes. I don't know enough to say how impressive that is or isn't, but when it's still a challenge to get people to make their password something stronger than "Football1" it doesn't bode well.

tfw the unencrypted .txt document on my desktop full of my passwords is more secure than a million dollar "secure your passwords" company lol I've always felt that password managers are partial snake oil tbh, just like VPNs. Both are coincidentally marketed to and bought by the same crowd.

If you build a better system, the universe is just going to build a better idiot. Apple and other companies should really just focus on zero click exploits, that's what's actually scary. Trying to secure the person that clicks on scam links and freaks out when a popup says he's been hacked is the definition of a losing battle. If Apple actually cared about security for old people, they'd let me install a Gecko based web browser with uBlock origin on my grandpa's iPad. Instead they force everyone to use their shitty webkit browser with kneecapped ad blocking. If the Indian phone scammer can finesse my grandpa into not only FINDING the settings app, but also digging into it to enable side loading, then getting him to go on a malicious website to download and install something, the guy honestly earned my grandpa's money at that point lol. I just tell him iPhones and iPads are unhackable and any popup saying he got hacked or is under attack or whatever is just a scam. Tech illiterate people just need something to anchor them so they don't freak out and make rash decisions. Also a good idea to set old peoples' DNS server to Quad9, it helps.

I don't think most consoles have been region locked for ages, but I believe it's allowed because they're considered to be different products. i.e. a region locked PS3 would never be sold outside its region. So Apple could region lock iPhones, but it would make their logistics more complicated. I think the last console to be region locked was the Wii U in 2012. Not exactly an ongoing issue.

Next you're going to get mad that they expect people to pass a driving course before being allowed to operate a car on public roads lol

I know you can set your iPhone to France, and it'll disable the 'throttling to prevent crashes on worn out batteries' feature. I assume this is something similar. Lots of people move between countries, so the system cant be all that strict. Like if someone bought an iPhone in America, then moved to the EU.