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I have no recollection of the journey to the hospital. My clearest memory is being face down in a hospital bed, surrounded by doctors and nurses. I remember going into an MRI scan and giggling as they removed my nipple piercings. Looking back, it was clear I was in shock. It turns out the blade had gone 7.8cm deep in my back. It had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre.
I am beginning to remember what made me think Jellyfin wasn’t user friendly.
Maybe it wasn’t the user interface after all.
Tl;dr:
There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning “ripping off” software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it’s easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won’t be “stolen”.
—Jim Warren, July 1976
Yep. What’s considered intuitive UI changes depending on what you’re used to.
It’s why Google fought so hard to put Chromebooks in American classrooms.
I believe you. I feel that way about iTunes (trauma intensifies).
But Jellyfin doesn’t have that reputation.
And then they bring you steak with bees because the server’s new and she doesn’t quite understand the kitchen shorthand yet.
Hate when that happens.
We still have those?
I thought they all went into tech*.
Last horror story I heard was that Korean Telegram sex abuse/blackmail ring.
It’s a Wikipedia article, but the whole thing is NSFL.
I set up Plex on my mum’s TV and she can just push play. The UI is intuitive (read: familiar) to her.
Jellyfin has a reputation for giving users more control and customizability, but the other side of that coin is that it’s more “fiddly”.
My users don’t want to fiddle.
Even if Selfridge’s entire existence were a collective fever dream*, the “full quote” is the better quote.
I can’t imagine anyone who has worked in direct sales, at any amount of money, who genuinely believes “the customer is always right” is more correct of a saying without “in matters of taste”.
If everyone born before 1925 was a fever dream, it changes literally nothing about the state of the world today.
I read that. (I literally mentioned features not being paywalled in the original comment.)
If the key doesn’t unlock features, what does it unlock?
Do you get a little thank you message from the devs when you enter it in? Does it add a “Supporter” tag next to your name on the app settings?
The practice exists in both software and games of adding paid cosmetics (e.g. Discord or Deep Rock Galactic) that don’t change the core featureset but allow users to pay more to support the developers, so I think it’s a valid question.
What does the $100 server key unlock (besides “supporter status”), since features aren’t paywalled?
The post on… the opensource Lemmy community for self hosters. Is that the one you’re talking about?
The marketing claims it’s “a gift for your family”.
Not a single comment in that first link mentions family members using it.
Here are the comments from the “people listing their use cases” you mentioned:
My issue isn’t the app itself or it’s users.
It’s the claim that it’s “a gift for your family”.
They’re totally different.
Greektasy has steamy romance with inconveniently attractive brooding werewolf-pire enemies-to-lovers plotlines, whereas Romantasy has the same thing with a different name.
Who do you think you’re stealing it from? The bank?
So this Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever!
What is this marketing?
I cannot imagine a single person who would want this for Thanksgiving.
Most people under the age of 30 use social media now to “preserve memories”.
The people who care about journaling probably have physical paper journals and wouldn’t want an app.
And the people who would want an app… would probably already have installed this themselves.
I got a completely different More Like This from you.
Is your algorithm trying to tell you something?
Romantasy exists to solve this problem
They’re not asking whether it’s literally true.
They’re asking why it feels like there’s less.
That’s a subjective, but still valid question.
The rat-thing was, in fact, poisonous.