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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from jagdtigger in Plex lays off 20% of its staff   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from jagdtigger in Plex lays off 20% of its staff   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from NF-A12x25 in Plex lays off 20% of its staff   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from tim0901 in Plex lays off 20% of its staff   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from JAKEBAB in Plex lays off 20% of its staff   
    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.
  6. Agree
    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from JAKEBAB in Plex lays off 20% of its staff   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 reacted to tikker in Plex lays off 20% of its staff   
    For me because Plex has the nicest UI out of the three (out of the box at least) and has worked the smoothest for me in both setup and operations. I tried Kodi for a bit when Plex had a transcoder bug so it wouldn't Direct Play anything for me and it wasn't quite it. Setup was fine from what I remember, but the user experience wasn't quite as polished as Plex's. I tried Jellyfin a long time ago as well, but at the time I tried it I had a hard time even just getting it set up at all. It has probably improved over that time, but maybe I should give it another shot.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from leadeater in Plex lays off 20% of its staff   
    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
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Australia puts Twitter on notice for hate speech content   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from PDifolco in Australia puts Twitter on notice for hate speech content   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in Vinyl records outsell CDs for the first time in decades by over 5 million   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from starsmine in Crypto Miners Paint GDDR Memory Chips to Hide Wear and Tear   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from Demonking in AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPUs Mysteriously Start Dying, German Repair Shop Receives 48 Cards With Cracked Chips - Is it from a Driver Update? (Updated)   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from vertigo220 in AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPUs Mysteriously Start Dying, German Repair Shop Receives 48 Cards With Cracked Chips - Is it from a Driver Update? (Updated)   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from vertigo220 in AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPUs Mysteriously Start Dying, German Repair Shop Receives 48 Cards With Cracked Chips - Is it from a Driver Update? (Updated)   
    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......)
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    SeriousDad69 reacted to Montana One-Six in AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPUs Mysteriously Start Dying, German Repair Shop Receives 48 Cards With Cracked Chips - Is it from a Driver Update? (Updated)   
    Generally Germany has better consumer protection laws than the US. Manufacturers in Germany are required by law to provide a 2 year warranty period (at least) for new electronics. That warranty period begins with the purchase meaning first day of the warranty is the date of purchase.
     
    Since the RX 6900 and 6800 came out a bit over 2 years ago, the warranty period for these cards if bought the first few weeks has expired by now. Which could explain the sudden dump of damaged cards because people try to get them fixed by some third party instead of going the warranty route since it is no longer an option.
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    SeriousDad69 reacted to Shimejii in NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Officially Launched at $799 with Performance Matching an RTX 3090 Ti (Updated - Now with Benchmarks/Reviews)   
    This is pretty much not a surprise that they didnt want to change the price much, because they know they wont sell many FE models and the other ones will cost the original MSRP and it will have accomplished nothing. 800$ 3090ti Isnt bad, but its not a 3090ti, Memory wise, Bandwidth, and other factors.   
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Alert for LastPass Users, The Breach in August was Worse Than Expected   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Alert for LastPass Users, The Breach in August was Worse Than Expected   
    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.
  20. Funny
    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from Demonking in Alert for LastPass Users, The Breach in August was Worse Than Expected   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws {DMA, DSA}   
    Wondering which EU country I should set my iPhone to lol
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from Sauron in Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws {DMA, DSA}   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from thechinchinsong in Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws {DMA, DSA}   
    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.
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    SeriousDad69 reacted to Sauron in Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws {DMA, DSA}   
    If you think you can "finesse" an 80 year old into sideloading anything into their phone, you've never met an 80 year old. You can barely "finesse" them into saving your number in the contacts list. This doesn't happen with Android, it won't happen with iOS.
  25. Funny
    SeriousDad69 got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws {DMA, DSA}   
    Wondering which EU country I should set my iPhone to lol
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