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Because Plex worked amazingly ~5-6 years ago, while Jellyfin was still very early stage. It'd sort of work. So there's a lot of "Well I'm already using Plex" inertia. Plus Plex has very lovely, polished clients, you can easily invite people, share your library with others etc etc. Once they got all that of course, then the changes/fees/ads/bloat started.

Jellyfin is great, it's all I've ever used. But it's still very rough - AppleTV support is limited+buggy (ask my wife...), you can't cast to a Chromecast from iOS etc. Plugins are required for some things to work. Transcoding is harder to get working. Good luck downloading stuff for offline use on the mobile client apps, all you get is the raw movie/tv show file - you have to use VLC to play it.

Again, I love Jellyfin and I use it daily. But we're both kidding ourselves if we think the polished experience you get with Plex is the same as it is with Jellyfin.

I love that 3 years in we're still (Even more so) at the "you have to pick the right model for the job" stage, requiring these sorts of hacks.

If the AI companies were clever they'd offer this themselves.

I find the "We put a model in front of your models so you can pick the right model while you model" mindset to be very strange.

Indeed. I'm a member of a few music trackers and they have a lot of great stuff, but What's archive was amazing. One of my proudest things I own is a What.cd beer cooler I bought from them.

What the hell is Perplexity? I've never heard of it? Have I been living under a rock again?

Thank you. I have this discussion all the time. The argument I get back "Right, but it seems like the change takes awhile because of the DNS cache expiring, so it's the same as propagating". My counter to that is to say "If I punch you in the mouth, would you just tell people I'd asked you be to be quiet, or would you use the right explanation as to what'd happened?"

(It's a stupid counterargument, btw, but it ends the discussion)

I wonder why it needs 20MB minimum. Back in the day linux 2.0.33 would boot happily into a GUI and everything on an 8MB machine.

Or maybe I misremember... I know my machine at the time got upgraded to 24MB so maybe it was that machine I was running.

Anyway it's neat this can still be done.

A bet the stupid name doesn’t help.

I know what you mean though, I use it but it’s never quite right. Hard to say exactly why.

Fair point - I've had no issue with it but I certainly don't use it as much as I do Bitwarden.

Yes, it's terrible. It's where I landed when I migrated from Keepass though so I've stuck with it.

I did this for years too until mobile devices became popular. I have ~4 mobile phones for various things (yes this isn't normal) and ~4 different computers/laptops I use. Trying to keep a Keypass in sync between them is a nightmare. A proper password manager (Bitwarden or other) removes all that hassle. I have fingerprint unlock on the the mobiles that support fingerprint, face unlock on the devices that support that etc. I have browser addons to make password entry quick and easy while remaining secure.

Once I moved to a password manager I realised how clunky and poor dragging a Keypass vault around was.

But it's not that though. They're hosting an encrypted version that they don't have the keys for. They are doing the backend sync for you, and writing the clients that YOU run, that sync yuur passwords everywhere.

To suggest they have a copy of your passwords is to misunderstand what they're doing. It's the same as saying you host your Keypass on Dropbox so now Dropbox have a copy of your passwords/secrets.

The value they are providing is seamless sync between a huge range of platforms/devices and making it as frictionless as possible to entry your password when you need to (biometrics to unlock the vault, browser addons to seemlessly enter the passwords etc)

Your Dad has a single point of failure for all his accounts. That's not a win.

I don't see this claim being made anywhere? They say it's usually the time the rent seeking begins, not that it's begun.

I just saw a tab with a Google search for "Zuckerberg nudes" lololol

Yea that threw me too. Very clever.

I love Bitwarden and use it every day, but I pretty much also agree with his post. I have Bitwarden for personal stuff and 1password for my, and the 1password experience is night and day better. It's just so good, it always works. Bitwarden sometimes (especially on Android) will just not autofill. On my PC sometimes it won't recognise the domain correctly even though I've got an entry set for "base domain" etc. I am ALWAYS fighting with it to get my passwords out. Look at the Bitwarden Reddit its full of similar complaints.

Of course the price between 1pass and Bitwarden reflects why 1pass is so much better. And you don't really realise how clunky BitWarden is if it's all you use, until you also have to use some other password manager.

You could have just posted "I didn't read the article" instead of this comment. It specifically addresses vaultwarden quite a number of times.

Who's looking at a damn fan? My lord. This is like caring what colour the filters in my air conditioner are.

Idiots will have anything marketed to them.

Wow those Halloween shops really flopped huh?

This annoys me, especially the last “It takes at least 25 years” rhetoric.

It didn’t take 25 years for SSL. SSH. Gzip encoding on HTTP pages. QUIC. Web to replace NNTP. GPRS/HSDPA/3G/4G/5G They all rolled out just fine and were pretty backwards and forwards compatible with each other.

The whole SLAAC/DHCPv6/RA thing is a total clusterfuck. I’m sure there’s many reasons that’s the case but my god. What does your ISP support? Good luck.

We need IPv6 we really do. But it seems to this day the designers of it took everything good/easy/simple and workable about v4 and threw it out. And then are wondering why v6 uptake is so slow.

If they’d designed something that was easy to understand, not too hard to implement quickly and easily, and solved a tangible problem it’d have taken off like a rocket ship. Instead they expected humans to parse hex, which no one does, and massive long numbers that aren’t easily memorable. Sure they threw that one clever :: hack in there but it hardly opened it up to easy accessibility.

Of course hindsight is easy to moan but the “It’s great what’s the problem?” tone of this article annoys me.

No shit. People are just figuring this out now?

This is the “Building my entire livelihood on Facebook, oh no what?” all over again.

Oh no sorry I forgot, your laptops LLM can draw a potato, let me invest in you.

“With opencode I can” closes tab

I was surprised clicking on the link didn't lead to a blank page!

This is a mass of words to say nothing useful. Why is it on the front page?

Oh my god I love this. I tell every one I load up how terrible they are and to give up now.

I think I’ve discouraged about 250 so far!!

What a wonderful project.

Stop calling Garbage Garbage! Just because it’s discarded waste doesn’t mean it meets the definition of garbage!

Same, I remember googling Deno and going "Oh this new thing looks neat" - and then I haven't heard/seen/read a thing about it until this post. But I keep hearing about Bun and of course nodejs.

Feel bad for them, they obviously just didn't capture a real userbase. I expect if yt-dlp hadn't started to require it they'd have just silently flamed out.

Probably because that’s not most people’s experience. Google is just pages of the same AI generated content. DDG, once good, seems even worse. Searx and the like are slow and results are mixed. Kagi, for me at least, seems to find the actual gems you’re looking for. It feels like Google used to feel back in 05.

That’s why people shill it.

Oh no. Anyway.

Ahhh yup, wondered how long it'd take before this happened. Sorry to sound like THAT guy, but I'm glad I deleted my account ages ago. I liked BS and it seemed good but yea, here comes Twitter 3.0

The ignorance of this post to the rest of the world is amazing.