It sounds so dramatic and I know people roll their eyes when I say things like that, but it's absolutely true.
The deeper I've gone with Linux over the years the more Windows seems (aside from the obvious privacy concerns and generally being trash corporate citizens) like an intentionally convoluted and overcomplicated mess.
Well, I can tell you how Jellyfin differs from a directory full of files, but I can't help you with understanding that other people have different preferences and desires than you which are neither "conditions" nor "addictions."
Jellyfin exists because Emby was only open source until it wasn't convenient. Some of their own devs pointed out they were violating the license, and their response was... non-ideal.
So Jellyfin was forked with the last fully open-source Emby code.
At least that's my recollection several years down the line.
I decided then that no amount of headache from Jellyfin (and let me say that I was an EARLY jellyfin adopter AND former Plex user) would be enough to get me to use Emby. (Because things like that are important to me, though I realize they aren't important to everyone.)
And reading this thread I'm apparently a super-genius because I have my Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy and serve it to my elderly parents with a simple login and an app they were able to install, and never found it to be a headache. (Which, if I'd read this thread only, I'd conclude was just not possible without voodoo magic)
No headaches along the way, and whereas Plex had already begun the march to enshittification when I left, Jellyfin has done nothing but steadily get better.
Anyhow, longer answer than intended, but I'd go back to Plex before I'd go to Emby, just on principle.
Such my fucking mood right now. Last half of the last day of the holiday weekend was ass, and sleep was absolute ass, as if the world conspired to ensure I could not be allowed to start the week with a good night's rest.
As a result, after several interruptions, have been awake since long before my alarm went off, and just sitting here with a black cloud over my head. In precious few minutes, the weekly grind will begin.
A little google led me to this article. The bit above is within that article, but I can't be bothered to give a shit about anything windows related enough to read all that.
Yep, I spent all of 2020 watching police escalate and beat protesters, all with maga yip yapping about cities "burned to the ground" and insisting that what I saw with my own eyes was not what I saw with my own eyes.
Won't ever look at cops the same again. I was already beginning to realize they weren't like I was raised to believe (in the bubble of privilege I grew up in) but 2020 made a lasting, permanent change.
I treat every single interaction with police, no matter how casual, like an event to be exited as soon as possible, and as if it could turn violent at any moment.
Police testimony without bodycame will = hearsay when next I'm called for jury duty.
100% acknowledged! I did momentarily struggle with that, but it's a high traffic community and doesn't have a rule disallowing such posts, so I tried to focus on that.
Loose fit for this community? Maybe. Never hurts to have a reminder though, given that Trump is undoing all the federal police reforms proposed as a result.
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