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Is Plex really Self Hosting? (piefed.zip)
submitted 4 months ago by CallMeAl@piefed.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been thinking about this more and more. According to the sidebar, this community is "A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control." Based on that I don't think Plex qualifies.

Privacy: Plex clearly records the metadata of what you watch. When I used it, it would send me a report by email of what my "friends" were watching. Even with that turned off, their services still track telemetry.

Control: Plex has all of it. They can (and do) make unilateral changes to the service, how authentication works, where you can run it, etc.

So I ask, when you are hosting something that is entirely dependent on a commercial entity to function, is Plex really selfhosting in the spirit of this community?

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[-] zener_diode@feddit.org 25 points 4 months ago

If you run your services off of a homelab rack that dims the lights whenever you power it on

If you are in this situation, then you definetly should get some more power, or at least a UPS to make sure you don't trip a breaker.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 4 months ago

Ooohhhhh, now I get it.

My first thought was dimming the lights like when a movie starts and that seemed silly.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Hey if you like a more intimate setting when you're with your server, far be it from me to interfere. Throw on a little Barry White and some Ottis Redding and git sum.

[-] meltedcheese@c.im 7 points 4 months ago

@irmadlad This is such a great idea. I sometimes tell my rack, “you are my everything” and I give it whatever it wants. I’m about to reposition some of the equipment. That is plenty intimate enough to play Barry White.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Bow Chicka Wow Wow

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago

Also make sure you don’t have a loose neutral somewhere 😬

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

If you are in this situation

It was a whimsical exaggeration.

[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 4 months ago

It was a whimsical exaggeration.

... Taken to it's logical conclusion and combined with snarky, but mildly helpful, advice.

As is tradition.

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