canthangmightstain comments on Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750

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[–] canthangmightstain@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No… it’s like picking up those apples, shipping them across the country, and then charging customers a delivery fee. Which is perfectly reasonable because time and fuel cost money.

Plex helps you (and others) stream from your library pretty brainlessly. Sure there are other options, but all of them are more complicated.

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

This is it. People have always paid for convenience.

Just look at console vs PC gaming.

Steamdeck made Linux gaming mainstream because it's brainless. Backed by proton.

But console has a vice grip on some communities / groups due to a long standing "plug and play" sales pitch. Now they're stuck because "my friends are there."

My brother-in-law is a sysadmin and stuck on Playstation due to his friends. Doesn't even own a gaming PC because "he doesn't have the time to tinker."

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago*

Technically, it’s like facilitating the shipping of those apples, but leaving the customer to ship.

Plex server->client streams don’t go through Plex’s servers themselves, but directly from server to clients. P2P. AFAIK the only exception is when something goes wrong and it falls back to a Plex-hosted server as an intermediary, which should be rare.

That’s still a pretty useful service though. Getting P2P reliable and easy isn’t trivial, and is one reason why open source projects haven’t really supplanted it yet.

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