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  • Read the email again. The key word in their marketing slop is “alternatively”. You have a Plex Pass and are the server admin. Your users need to do nothing.

    Unfortunately, that does mean I have to respond to messages from all my users asking what that email means and convince them they can just ignore it.

    A second “nice” part of this change is that iOS users no longer have to buy the Plex app on the App Store to stream longer than a minute. The app is only like 5 bucks one time, but it was a barrier when trying to convince stubborn people to just fucking TRY my Plex server.





  • I feel sick saying it, but I think this is a project you could complete with AI. It sucks ass at understanding complex problems, but it’s good at cranking out small scripts to integrate tools together.

    You basically just want a wrapper around ffmpeg with a light web interface to handle upload, script execution, and download.

    LLMs are pretty good at spitting out a simple web interface that runs in a barebones server like Express or nginx.

    If you don’t need to worry about security or accessibility or any “not on the critical path” concerns, this could probably work after a few iterations.

    As for anything already out there - I’ve never come across anything. The closest app I can think of is TDARR which is intended to automatically transcode your media library to h265. That wraps up some of the ffmpeg stuff you want, but doesn’t address the upload/download half of the workflow.


  • I have not. I’ve seen crypto be highjacked by scammers and grifters who spew a lot of pseudo-technical nonsense and try to hype their business that doesn’t exist. I’ve seen coins come and go after they’ve been successfully pumped and dumped.

    But I’ve never seen crypto solve a real problem.

    The idea behind a blockchain is great and the list of pros is long. But… still haven’t seen it implemented to do anything useful.

    I would like crypto to solve a problem.

    Like your suggestion - could crypto help solve famine? How, exactly? Crypto isn’t something you sprinkle on a problem to fix it. It’s a very fixed set of technical specifications. So how can that be used to solve famine? Is famine caused by the lack of a publicly accessible ledger that requires proof of work? Or is famine caused by inadequate logistics and local politics? How does crypto help us get freighters of grain from Ukraine to Sudan? How does it offload that grain and see that it’s transferred onto rail and trucks to reach people in need? How will it ensure warlords and corrupt officials don’t redirect that aid to their own interests?











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