my favourite netflix client is jellyfin tbh. it fixes all of netflix's probems.
Does anyone know if it's possible to run a self-hosted Jellyfin server without having to run an entire data center on your house? I could do something simple like a NUC or equivalent and a tiny NAS, anything else?
There's people running old raspberry pis with USB hard drives.
It'll run on just about anything.
Though, you'll only be able to stream original quality, no on the fly quality changes for low speed connections and such.
Mine runs on my desktop that I built in 2016. So yes. I also tested it on a Lenovo tiny (similar to a NUC) that I'm using as a self host "server" and it seemed fine but I didn't try any heavy transcoding yet.
Just go Piracy. Real-Debrid + Stremio, Torrent + Hayase or anything else that’s with Piracy.
My lazy ass just torrents on my pc and plugs the HDD into my Shield which has Kodi on it.
Homelab + Jellyfin.
Use Jellyfin. Fill your server with treasures procured from the high seas. Watch on any device. Sync play with far away friends or family.
I tried jellyfin for about a month last year, but it lacked a lot of what I was used to in plex, so I returned to it. But lately plex is really going downhill... has jellyfin improved somewhat in this time frame?
I'm not sure what features you feel are lacking. And I haven't used Plex at all.
For me, all I want is being able to connect to it from any device, and sync play.
What features? I have both and I vastly prefer Jellyfin. Plex is slow and the menus dont get right to the point.
The kind of people they're pissing off with this, are the same people most likely to switch to bittorrent.
Hell BitTorrent is outdated, these days you just watch the movie through an online streaming site. It requires zero technical knowledge
Changes like this are always made to "Enhance the user experience" yet the UX only goes backwards
They recently made everything massive blocks of color so now it's impossible to read anything. Damn splash screen takes up a third of my TV
They're made to “Enhance the ~~user experience~~ profit”
“Enhance the user experience” is just what the dev or documentation team writes when management dictates that they drop a feature. The only reasons they would have dropped it:
Every decision is about increasing profits first, and UX almost always takes a back seat to that
What possible benefit does this offer to Netflix? Are they trying to avoid paying licensing fee or something?
Probably. Or they want to reduce their development and maintenance costs with the extra code for those devices. Or maybe they somehow make more money when users are watching on some other device/software.
The best part is how in the end-stages of capitalism, everything keeps getting worse for consumers. While prices go up, even. It's awesome. /s
1936: any universal turing machine can mimic another
2025: unfortunately your turing machine has a shape we don't like so we will block you from using it productively despite the fact that it has the exact same hardware inside that other machines
When is the next VC driven company that focuses more on growth than profit coming? I feel Netflix and all the other streaming services are ripe to be overtaken in the same way Netflix overtook tv channel packaging.
To streaming?
Never.
Streaming is a finite market that is already covered. The moment old money (aka existing media companies) jumped on it, it was done for.
I definitely understand your view and personally don't see a way to disrupt the market either. I just hope someone else finds a way.
As a Chromecast user, it seems like Google is trying to kill this feature anyway.
Didn't they just replace it with Google TV at 3x the price?
Thou shalt buy a smart tv or other device that we can pull metrics from and force advertising to.
And require to login too
Make no mistake, this was intentional before the holidays so families visiting relatives can't just cast Netflix from their phone to watch something and will require someone to login and use it one of their authorized devices...or coerce them to upgrade if they already have too many authorized devices
Yeah... There goes my subscription. I'm casting everything to Chromecast on my older TV.
Seems like if you've got the ad-free plan and an older chromecast you're still ok... For now. This is indicative though that the service may not be viable for long for you.
It’s been a minute, are there Netflix subscriptions which one pays for but which still have ads?
enshittification
Between their new interface and this, it’s like they are actively trying to get you to use it less.
I guess I don't do the casting thing much, but what would the application have to do with it? I mean you cast the presentation from the device, does it care what is on the screen at the time?
Yes. DRM
I had no idea. Stupid drm. My device dammit. It will play where I want it to.
I keep reading this sentence like I'm supposed to know what it means, but I don't care. actually. I'm here to post and say that
Lol why?
Genuinely seems pretty arbitrary given you need to use their app to start the cast anyway
The fact that casting to older devices is allowed on the expensive plan but not the ad-supported one offers a clue.
Because fuck you, that’s why. I’m sure they will re-introduce the feature behind a paywall soon.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once you tell a company that you are willing to pay for something more than once, prepare to get fucked, because that’s all you’re gonna get. And not the fun kind.
Casting support is still available on older Chromecast devices or TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page, but only for subscribers on pricier ad-free plans, which start from $17.99 per month. Netflix users with an ad-supported subscription ($7.99 per month) will be unable to cast from their phones even if they own legacy Chromecast devices.
Paywall already there. Excerpt taken from the linked article.
Awesome. Another reason to never give them money again. 👍
As if I needed another reason to never get netflix again. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
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