Same. Mine is pretty automated but the second the power blips she isn’t going to find the power button and I’m sure the NAS will eventually get tossed in a box.
I have an agreement with two of my buddies that one of them will take my server and maintain it for my family if something happens to me, and I will do the see back.
I wrote a little garden plot called Exit Planning which was my initial plans for how to take over after I die. The end result is a sealed folder in a file cabinet that my partner knows to look at. In there, I have a page on my servers: contact information about who to handle administration/takeover, how much it costs, and what I would like to be done with it.
Instead of wiping, just encrypt and write a script to shut down if you don’t sign in within x amount of time. That way you won’t lose your data if you’re not able to sign in for some reason other than death.
I can understand limiting direct links to torrent sites or copyrighted works, but this “discussing the subject directly is not allowed” is pretty overbearing. Whoever is labeling Plex as “piracy-adjacent” shows a generally uninformed opinion on Plex.
uninformed opinion or not, I’d like to play it safe and ensure this community stays open and viewable to as many people as possible. I know the Plex subreddit ran into issues in the past, and I’d like to avoid them.
please follow the rules and keep in mind that this sub is of discussing Plex and its addons, not piracy. there are other places for that.
EDIT: it should be noted that discussions that may involve piracy ARE PERMITTED (as it pertains to Plex and its add-ons) in our Matrix community chats (linked above and in the sidebar), as they’re not Lemmy-related and aren’t going to get this community in trouble here. However, all other rules still apply.
eh… lemmy.world is based in the US, so they’re liable for anything that gets federated there, as that stuff is not technically hosted on their servers. it’s not because they object to it, it’s just protecting themselves from dumb laws.
yeah. it was always a game of euphemisms and such there. how strict the enforcement was was always a game of pushing boundaries, getting snapped back by the admins, waves of bans and such, then more boundary-pushing. that went on for years.
reddit also has the money to pay for lawyers to defend itself from frivolous legal bullshit (and non-frivolous legal threats). lemmy instance admins don’t. I don’t blame them for playing it safe if their local laws make their lives difficult.
there are plenty of other instances to choose from.
Literally they are not. DMCA Safe Harbor provisions specifically make them not liable for content posted by others until it is brought to their attention by a rights holder or some regulatory agency.
here’s the thing about that: it takes going to court to argue that and hoping you get a favorable ruling.
and that’s very, very expensive and you could be shut down via injunction until that happens, which could take years.
and even if the lemmy.world admin could afford hundred of thousands or millions in legal fees to win a case against the RIAA and/or MPAA, why would they want to risk it?
That absolutely is not how that works. You don't go to court, the rights holder has to take you to court. If they show up in court without having filed a DMCA takedown or even a Cease and Desist it doesn't matter who they are, they're gonna get laughed out of court, and probably open themselves up to an anti-SLAPP counter-lawsuit to boot (which probably won't succeed ultimately, but still).
I have never seen that but I just used Google to check for those settings in the mobile app. It’s up to every user if they want to get reminded to do things or not. Same for all the other settings, just chose what you prefer. I have them off.
Thats good. Someone recently recommended “infuse” for ios as an app for jellyfin. The free version does everything you need since some of the paid features are handled by jellyfin on the server side.
If you are not on ios then disregard that comment.
Whilst this may seem out of the blue, it is something we have been considering for nearly a year - in order to future-proof, it is important that we disassociate ourselves from the “Plex” trademark.
Just the “Plex” trademark? They don’t have a problem with the “Meta” one?
Actually, maybe? Meta is an example of an arbitrary trademark. Meta is a word in everyday usage, so it becomes a lot more difficult to defend than say Kodak which isn’t a word and is an example of an fanciful trademark. Could cooperate stooges take them to court and throw so much money at them they can even make a defense, of course. This is America were talking, cash is king and country. It just wouldn’t be very easy.
You should be able to do this. I don’t know if the first gen Chromecast supports native subtitles. But even if it doesn’t, Plex has the option to burn the subtitles right into the video. It places some extra load on the server as it needs to transcode the video, but it pretty much guarantees compatibility.
Does it do this on the fly as you play? I want to avoid transcoding if possible, however if it transcodes and streams that transcore simultaneously on the fly and then deletes the transcoded version automatically thereafter it might work out.
Yes, the transcoding is done on the fly automatically. Plex automatically transcodes any media that the client doesn’t natively support. Turning on burned in subtitles forces it to transcode to add them in.
I use Plex with my first gen Chromecast with subtitles. The connection to that Chromecast seems a little unreliable with Plex specifically, it sometimes doesn’t want to play an episode
Have you tried the option on Plex to “burn in subs” always? I have had subtitle issues here and there but setting that option fixed my subtitle issues.
Not a chromecast user though but just wanted to throw that out there.
I haven’t used Plex yet, was wondering if it could do this to see if it was worth a shot. I’m hopeful from some of these responses though that it can. I expect burning in the subtitles would work, it’s just that I want to avoid re-encoding if I can and wouldn’t necessarily need Plex if that turned out to be the only way anyway. Thanks though.
I guess I never checked, but I assumed that all the other solutions I’ve been using to stream video to the Chromecast were performing a reencode on the fly to meet Chromecast spec. If so, then hopefully this must be how Plex does it too and so hopefully as long as the horsepower is there it can take whatever size or quality source I have available and feed it to.the Chromecast at the Chromecast’s best available spec. I wouldn’t swear to it but I think I’ve done that with 4k material and VLC, with the outcome would have been 1080p at the appropriate bitrate for the Chromecast.
Since I have nothing better to do, I dusted off my original Nexus Player and casted a couple of things from the Plex app on my phone. It works, so I would assume it would also work on your Chromecast.
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