But I’ll digress it doesn’t matter anymore.

Exactly. There is no ethical consumption.

The Internet that you’re posting on was built on top of a military network intended to provide redundant communication in the event of a global thermonuclear war. The satellites that provide you with GPS were created in order to more accurately drop bombs and guide armies. The rockets that put them in space exist because of research into methods of delivering nuclear weapons.

Your smartphone likely contains components built by slave labor, you almost certainly consume food products resulting from child labor. Your clothing as well.

The world is built on all manner of immoral things. ‘Stealing’ information (which presupposes the idea that a person can own knowledge, which I disagree with) is incredibly mild.

On top of that, the advances in AI are happening independent of LLMs. The advances in machine learning that made LLMs possible apply to all kinds of different areas that have nothing to do with language, music, or art.

LLMs just happen to be the easiest kind of AI to train because humanity has spent millennia storing language in books and the Internet provides a massive amount of data as well.

You’re making a huge amount of assumptions about the people expressing doomerism. They could just be assholes, or bots, or workers pushing messaging for the political opposition, or non-citizens who are treating US politics like a soap opera.

All you’ve done is created a strawman, claimed it has been traumatized by politics and asserted that this strawman is every person that’s making cynical doomer comments.

The person that you’re responding too is engaging with the reality of the thread, you’re manufacturing a justification to feel self-righteous and outraged.

If you have a Mac already then Asahi is a useful project that lets you use Linux on your existing hardware.

If you’re going to buy a new machine don’t punch yourself in the dick, so to speak, by buying something that can only use Linux from one specific project. Buy something that gives you the freedom to do what you want.

The primary appeal of Apple’s products is that they’re designed ‘just work’. This is only true when assuming that you’re willing to pay the higher costs, use their OS and subscribe to the walled garden services. If you’re looking at a new laptop and will be using Linux then an Apple product is simply a more expensive piece of hardware that does the opposite of ‘just work’.

Unless you really care about being seen using Apple products, buy something high quality that’s compatible with your planned use case.

You could get 2.5 quadruple A games for that price

These high prices are not from people talking to chatbots.

They’re using agentic tools where their prompt spawns a lot of bots which talk to themselves/the other bots and they keep going until someone (usually a higher quality reasoning model) decides that they’ve met the goals of the task that they were assigned.

So instead of 1 prompt and 1 response, you get 1 prompt and 800 responses across 5 different bots each using really large context windows.

The short answer is because it is open source.

I’m using some non-standard transcoding profiles, for example RIFE motion interpolation. I have some other server customizations so that it integrates with my home automation system a bit better.

I can’t customize Plex.

Absolutely not

It’s fine guys, the FBI has already caught all of the human traffickers and terrorists so going after people for photoshopping their image in the wrong way is the next priority.

How could this happen?

I feel that companies like Microsoft have forgotten that bug bounties and ethical reporting are the compromise where they agree to pay a fair amount for the bugs and are given time to fix them and the security researcher forgoes the 10x price they could get on the black market.

Given the rise in mercenary hacking/spyware corporations, the bug researchers could probably get way more money through those alternate, and still legal, channels.

So I hear.

I understood the misunderstanding from reading the previous comments.

I was clear in other comments that I was speaking of what I knew to be true at the time, therefore the tense was correct from my perspective.

I didn’t say you were intentionally lying, only that you were mistaken. I wasn’t making a personal attack.

I acknowledge that based on your experience that is how Plex worked 10 years ago, but it is not how it currently works. So, when you say that ‘this is how Plex works’ instead of ‘this is how Plex worked 10 years ago’ it’s implying that it still works like that when it does not. That could confuse people who are here and trying to learn.

This place takes itself way, way too seriously, in my opinion. I’m sorry for any toes I stepped on without even meaning to, and I won’t comment on the matter further.

The community exists to talk about, and help people with, self hosting. Providing incorrect information runs counter to that purpose and so community members should point out when information isn’t correct.

Misinformation just means that the information that you’re providing is not correct, it’s not a personal attack on you to be corrected about a factual issue. It doesn’t mean that you’re a bad person or suggest that you’re trying to be intentionally misleading, it just means that your statements do not match the current factual reality.

If a fifth grader uses copy.fail to gain root access on their Chromebook I say we let them have some extra Minecraft time.

Well, grammatical quibble then.

Your verbs are present tense and not past tense:

Plex requires a Plex Pass subscription

Plex doesn’t allow you to watch media on your local network

This gives the impression that you’re talking about the current state of things. Which seems to be the above commenter’s issue.

Where as:

Plex required a Plex Pass subscription

or

Plex didn’t allow you to watch media on your local network

Would imply a past experience.

Misinformation doesn’t mean that you’re intentionally lying (that is disinformation), it just means that you’re stating facts that are not true.

(I’m not being negative, just pedantic lol)

To actually contribute to the conversation:

Plex now allows local network streaming without their servers being offline as long as your client is already authenticated (cached tokens have a short expiration date however)

Alternatively, you can add your LAN’s subnet in Settings > Server > Network > ‘List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth’

Here’s a full written guide: https://forums.plex.tv/t/howto-use-plex-with-no-internet/383325

(I know you’re just joking)

☝️🤓, We typically don’t consider local-only applications as being hosted.

Hosted implies a server and the ability to operate remotely and to service multiple users.

I have both specifically for this reason.

Plex is for my family who only need to know ‘login to your Plex account’, but I personally use Jellyfin because I’m on my VPN. I got the lifetime pass for under $100 ($80?) and it has saved me a lot of time by preventing technical issues that would need my personal attention.

That doesn’t change the point that the people who designed, built and operated the spacecraft in question here are the ones who own the accomplishment, regardless of ownership or funding.

I hope the world can survive the $0.38 worth of advertising that my comment adds to his trillion dollar bank account.

Supporting SpaceX financially contributes to his bank account, posting on social media does nothing.

The engineers that did this are great, I don’t care about Elon Musk… I’ll choose a different space company to launch my satellites.

It’s only because it is a large mp3 okay?

And, it shouldn’t need to be said, Elon Musk has exactly zero to do with this other than paying.

This is a conversation between engineers and physics.