• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I never once found plex to be user friendly for me, it required me to leave my laptop running at all times or buy a dedicated pc for it. I find it infinitely easier to just Pirate what I want and put it on a usb stick or hdmi the laptop to the tv. For me plex was always a thing I felt I never had a use for

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      6 hours ago

      The server is indeed meant to be ran on a server by someone comfortable with running servers. I was referring to the clients mostly and connecting new clients.

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      12 hours ago

      it required me to leave my laptop running at all times or buy a dedicated pc for it.

      Yeah, that’s not exactly a software issue … you can’t stream data out of thin air.

      find it infinitely easier to just Pirate what I want and put it on a usb stick or hdmi the laptop to the tv.

      That’s pretty cute, but get’s kind of tedious when you have thousands of movies and tens-of-thousand TV show episodes. That’s when you’ll see the need for a software like plex.

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        8 hours ago

        I can’t view thousands of movies and episodes at once, why would I want it all on my HD? Anyways, plex just seems like a bloated solution to a problem it invented.

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          8 hours ago

          Maybe you want to watch them later?

          Anyway, I suggest you don’t use it then and keep on shuffling around with your usb stick.

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            3 hours ago

            As someone with too many shows and movies on my Plex, I agree with his methods.

            My life would be simpler if I torrented, watched once, and deleted.

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              3 hours ago

              I disagree. What if you want to rewatch some old obscure show? Also I share my server with a bunch of people, it would be very hard to keep track of what everyone wants to watch with an on-demand system.

              Also streaming services removing shows is one of my pet peeve, so I’m really against deleting anything.