Due to the nature of #Plex and the popularity in the #selfhosting and #homelab communities, it often seems as if most people assume that they are #opensource or on our side. As Plex approaches profitability, we will need to wait and see what the stereotypical and expected greed from executives will lead to. This story might not end well. You either die the hero or see yourself become the villain.
The writing's been on the wall for a while, it's just a matter of when really. I struggle to imagine how them taking off in the streaming world, though. At least how they would like to.
For those, like me, who want their own space here and prefer self-hosting, I suggest considering snac2. I'm having a great experience with it, and it's easy to install and configure.
watched @geerlingguy's MNT Reform review today in the mnt hq with my colleagues @theawesomerandomness and @holo_memory. thank you for this very well made and balanced review, it had a bunch of edge-of-seat moments for us :D and i'm motivated to polish some of those last rough edges.
a comment on price: the base model with a311d is "only" 1199 EUR in our shop. theoretically you can plug in your own SSD for 50 bucks. we'll probably also lower SSD prices further as we have new sources.
Ohhhhh, awesome! A shame about the trackball though. I want the original so badly, I just worry about actually being able to take it anywhere in a bag. Sadly, this might be more practical even if the turbonerd in me wants the chonker.
While we're all moving from Chrome to Firefox or Safari, maybe we can also all move from Unity to Godot?
Time and again I see folks building businesses on top of platforms they don't control, and then getting rug-pulled through changes to pricing, privacy policy, content policy, etc. We have to start making different choices when it comes to making a living with digital creative work.
I like it quite a bit. A lot of good options and certain things are here that just don't work on stock wayland. It's been rock solid for me, even with an Nvidia Optimus laptop. I am running Nixos so that might have something to do with the stability, but I haven't run Hyprland on any other distro so I'm not too sure on that.
I kept the habit of my 'direct ballpen' training and I'm trying now anatomy on various perspective.
It's mind breaking difficult and I still fail in most of the case. But I still feel I'm learning a lot, so I'll keep pushing.
If you wonder why so many Cammy of Street Fighter: it's the first character that came to my mind when I wanted to study body anatomy in transport without going NSFW (but I'll CW here for that).
Oh, okay! Well I hope you enjoy it, it's a pretty off the walls show. For a first timer I think Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is an amazing starting point if you want something else or if Kaguya doesn't click. The English dub is great if you're not too fond of watching subbed content.
This seems so cool! I wish this was around when I was looking for a dedicated music player, but I might buy it in the future just to support the open hardware movement. If I could have something like this that supports self-hosted services (Jellyfin, Navidrome, Audiobookshelf, etc.), I'd be in heaven.
I was going to wait to talk about this until I could actually release it, but it’s becoming unlikely that will happen.
A few months ago I built an #iOS and #tvOS app for watching #Owncast streams natively on your phone and tv. You could browse the directory, or add your own private servers that aren’t listed publicly. It would send you push notifications when your favorite streams went live and it all worked pretty well.
Apple has been unable to understand how the “rights” work in this case. I can’t get them to understand that people opt into the directory, and the Owncast project owns and runs the directory. Instead they see it as me “using content without rights” and “accessing a catalog without proper rights”. They asked me to provide the paperwork detailing the agreement I have with every Owncast server. Clearly that’s impossible. The number of servers that want to be public on the directory change every day, I couldn’t send them new documentation every day. I tried to explain that the directory is kind of like a search engine and the application is like a browser. A browser doesn’t have explicit rights to every webpage ever made, as that would be ridiculous. I also tried to compare it to a podcast client. A podcast client can play back any podcast without asking for permission, and there are tons of podcast directories.
They’ll approve the application if I don’t use the directory and don’t have any Owncast servers directly available from the application, however. But I’m not willing to do that as that kind of defeats the point of the convenience.
I contacted a handful of attorneys, and I was willing to fight this. I hoped if I could get an attorney to draft a document that explains, in legal terms, something that Apple’s legal team would understand it could be cleared up. But I haven’t been able to have a meaningful conversation with any of them, as none of them understand what I’m doing or aren’t interested in working with a non-corporate entity.
So I think this is dead, killed by Apple. I tried to build something cool for you all, as a side project, to make viewing Owncast streams more convenient. It’s just not going to happen and I feel bad about it.
Wow, wow, wow. This REALLY blows. I'm kinda speechless. Even if I don't use Apple, I always thought one of the biggest things missing was clients for different devices. While it's awesome to hear about mobile development and things being in the works, this has to be the most disheartening way possible.
I really hope you can get something figured out, this is a really sad situation that reminds me of just how tough the battle for open networks and online spaces will be.