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  • It’s not just that. I’m a techie. I’ve been in the industry for decades. I know my way around computer very well.

    I want to like Jellyfin and I want to ditch Plex (even though I have a lifetime license) because of what it has become and where it’s headed.

    That said, the other day my Plex server had some issues that took me a while to figure out. Since when it failed I just wanted to watch an episode of a series and relax, I once again fired up the JF client. I couldn’t get seek to work, I had to manually find and download subtitles (that’s not always the case but when it is, it’s pretty annoying), and ultimately I couldn’t watch my series at all as playback would randomly stop, the player would close and I’d be back at the menu, without the position having been recorded and with no way to fast-forward as seek didn’t work at all.

    I ended up spending 15min figuring out what was wrong and fixing Plex, then watched my series undisturbed.

    Like I said, I want to drop Plex for JF, but in the 3 years or so that I’ve been running both, every time I fire up JF I end up running back to Plex as I just want to sit back and watch a bloody series or movie.



  • As others mentioned, it’s a programming paradigm. It and discussions around it have zero implications outside of programming.

    People can write great applications using it or using any other paradigm. Same is true for terrible applications.

    Some people love it, some people hate it, most are somewhere in between and think it has their merits and tradeoffs, and that it can be used where it makes sense, but shouldn’t where it doesn’t.

    Heated discussions are very common in tech circles over things that have zero practical implications outside our own little world, and this is one of them. 😄









  • I run it on my router which has the CG-NAT IP address.

    Whilst you’re right that it could clash, it’s very unlikely (a 1 in 4194302 chance), I imagine Tailscale would detect the clash and change IPs though I could be wrong as it never happened to me (and probably never will - though in all fairness it will eventually happen to someone).