All fair points, just depends on where your motivation to self host comes from. $7 for a monthly sub to Plex is frankly nothing to me, I don’t even have the charge linked to my budget spreadsheet. Between Plex, VPN, my usenet provider, private tracker memberships, electricity, etc., I’m not even sure I’m saving much money versus having one or two streaming subscriptions. In other words, I don’t do it to save money.

PlexAmp alone justifies the cost even before some features got put behind a paywall but the fact that all my tech-illiterate friends can just download an app on their phones/consoles and watch whatever they want in a high bitrate off my computer makes it worth it for me. 9/10, I just watch films off VLC player anyway.

That isn’t true. A Plex pass from the server owner will cover access for all users

Indeed. The entitlement that some folks online have towards Plex is embarrassing sometimes.

You can selfhost for free however you want but software developers have the right to ask for money to use their software. I selfhost about 60tb of media and have paid for Plex monthly for about 10 years now. They are still so far above the competition for ease-of-use that I wouldn’t even consider switching at this point, even to save $7/month.

This was announced several months ago

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I’m a fool

Yeah for sure lol. It’s kinda the end level of misogyny + toxic competive masculinity + extreme hetero sexual ideation. What else comes from that combo than “forcing weaker men to replace the role of women for your own desires”?

10:13 PM on February 27th, but how do you write the year?

https://www.dailydot.com/news/mcdonalds-warning-sign/

Once or twice a month(!) is way too often to act like it’s not already an overindulgence. You’re either not aware of how harmful fast-food really is in 2025 or don’t know how to say no, but Christ, you’re already giving your kids that “Freedom of choice.”

We have more empty houses than homeless right now. We don’t need more vacancies, just less landlords

And you may ask yourself “my god! Where are the games?”

What would you say if your kids begged you to buy them cigarettes?

Crazy mixtape

One of my friends in HS made an AvP poster with Danny Trejo and Michael Jackson

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I’m fine with an “autistics roundup” as long as it starts and ends with Musk

There are several decades (centuries?) Of stand-up comedy that amounts to

Man: “What do you want to eat?”

Woman: “i don’t know”

Bernie Sanders isn’t a Democrat lol