The entire entertainment industry is floundering. Wages lagging inflation in many sectors, people are paying significantly more to eat. They're going to cut back on the streaming services and they're going to cut back on going out to the movies. I'm right here at these crossroads where the only thing that makes sense is to give people a little more value for the money, instead we're going to pull every fast trick we can to make more in advertising and gambling.

I seriously doubt that. I didn't read the law but

Mmhmmm

New round of Russian funding

I mean it's not entirely impossible, FFmpeg has also pushed to improve themselves over the years.

Screw that You're all great everybody from slackware to steam deck.

They're mostly just using FFmpeg behind the scenes, which is exactly how Plex did it to start with. Plex spent a long time working on hardware acceleration, it's hard to tell exactly what they're doing at this point but it's safe to say they spend a hell of a lot of time on it so I doubt they're just using FFmpeg for hardware acceleration anymore.

My problems are less about speed and more about compatibility. I have Plex and jelly thing set up next to each other as containers on the same media database. There's quite a number of videos that play on Plex that will not play on jellyfin. It could be problems between the two clients.

Thank you for the extra knowledge there most helpful!

For the sake of not being trapped by Plex I could deal with all the other problems everyone's listed here.

But asking my friends and family to either use tailscale or for me to leave that open highly complicated open source project dangling out there on an open port...

It doesn't make the point any less valid. I would pay for better transcoding performance in jf if it were an option.

So I have never experienced it at all. But my wife, at least once a week will mention something random and get an ad for it. If it were just purely confirmation bias I should be seeing the same biases.

The last one last week she mentioned checking out a certain store 10 minutes later she got around to searching for it. Google auto completed "where can I" with find (whatever store she was looking for) It was the first time she had typed it in and it was dead on what we had been talking about.

It's definitely not everyone and everything every time but it happens in awful lot for coincidence.

I want a working search engine. I want something to review my writing and suggest changes. I want high quality noise cancellation and background removal. I want high quality speech to text and text to speech.

These are the things I want from AI I don't really want something training my every want and whim to provide me better ads. But the stuff I listed in the first paragraph here is really advantageous to most people I believe.