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I'm sorry you dealt with that, an I'm very familiar with it. You're absolutely right, to management you are nothing more than a drone. It doesn't matter how important you are to the company, what level you are, once they have decided you're out it's over. There is no amount of fighting, rallying, or anything you can do. They will find a way to oust you.

Same applies if you're in an HR thing, a legal thing, just got on someone's bad side. Even if you win, they'll just fabricate a reason to get rid of you with just enough data to justify it in court. As soon as you catch wind, start looking for your next place

Personally I think everyone is wrong here, but none of it in a mean or jerky way, just in perspective .

For your parents, it's definitely a different vibe now, we need to be more socially conscious about walking up to a woman, we should understand that that is inherently a dangerous place for a woman and she is likely on her guard.

That being said, you shouldn't be afraid to speak to women either, that is likely just as bad. Women are just people, they have like and dislikes, and you should talk to them the same way you would anyone.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that the days of pickup lines and sauntering over are gone. But there's absolutely nothing wrong striking up a conversation either, and in fact I encourage it. Notice things, maybe they're wearing a band T-shirt of a band you like, maybe they have a cool sticker on their phone or laptop, show interest. Don't be afraid of them.

I am conflicted.

If you have a garage at home, this is a moot point. 98% of driving is not long trips, and the vast majority of homes are 2 car households. It makes sense that one of them should be an EV

I take transit wherever possible, and we're down to being a one car house, but that car will always be an ev now. It's so much more convenient, and no gas stations ever. I don't know why people are so loyal to a fuel

Same here. I do okay. I voted against my interests to tax myself more to improve our societal systems and help others. I was overruled by people in need voting to get rid of the systems they depend on. So, idk how to feel anymore

Exactly how I've felt. I paid for a pass a long time ago, when they were actively making features for us server owners - but lately it's been a good 80-90% of their crap content and very little for server owners. I'm not even upset about their content really, it's just they blately have ignored everything else. It's shifted, and so I have to as well.

You have had one of the more reasonable outlooks of this. I get that most of this stuff is fairly advanced for the average person who may be wanting to host, but anymore with letsencrypt, if you can port forward and spin up a container to run a plex server... you're pretty close to just doing everything yourself. I don't know why Plex feels the need to charge for "remote streaming" when from what I can tell, the most they're doing is pointing a client at my server. As I said in other comments, it seems like a fancy dynamic DNS service, which is like, pennies for a multi year subscription. (Because it really doesn't do much)

1.0 has been rock solid for us. The experimental version for 1.1 has been less so. As nice as the new things are, I'd wait until it hits stable.

It kills me the the Jedi games, TLoU2, GoW games, they're fun but they're what, max 30 hours to beat? And they're trying to up the price to 80?

Red dead 2 deserves 80. Cyberpunk in its current state could deserve 80. Both are around 100-120 hour games and I've replayed them multiple times. 30 hour games by proportion deserve a quarter of the price.

Wonderful! Glad you're getting started! As it happens I wrote up my tips a while back, please take a look! Have a blast!

https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1426194

Honestly not a bad idea, and with the increasing regulations to save the children this would show that the fediverse is making an effort. We may not be highly scrutinized at our current levels, but I don't doubt that eventually we will be

Wdym?

Too bad about bazzite. Maybe chimera? I think it's Debian based so it might be slightly better. I've always liked pop, but I use it desktop, and it's just a fork of ubuntu

After posting, I get that deep now

Just because I'm not affected doesn't mean it's not enshittification, and removing functionality that was free for over a decade.

That's essentially my point of view. Plex enshittified. I was angry at how they handled the enshittification, throwing my users into a flurry, but I'm also not surprised that they're doing it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm getting a lot of vitriol here from people saying "Well your users are idiots", or other angry things. No, my users are family members, and not everyone needs a degree in CS to be able to connect to a Plex server. A few of them are elderly. The email was misleading to them, on purpose. It threw many of them into a flurry. The whole thing was handled terribly by a company who keeps going out of their way to make it difficult for them already to simply watch my server.

I'd suggest trying Jellyfin out again. Personally I was in the same boat even just over a year ago, I wasn't impressed, but it's come a long way. It's absolutely not as polished as Plex, but if you can look past that I'm finding most of the features I need are there.

Plexamp is honestly amazing. I'm investigating finamp, but I know it won't be as nice. Them killing off the tidal integration did help the decision a bit though

If you consider paying a monthly fee for something that was free yesterday then I guess I'm wrong, go ahead and pay the subscription