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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 112 points 1 week ago (24 children)

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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I never really understood intuitive as a description for user interfaces. I remember back when opinion articles on Tech news websites would use that term to mean it "looks and functions exactly like Windows XP"

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Idiomatic usage of ‘intuitive’ regarding interfaces breaks down into

  1. ‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or

  2. ‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

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.

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