The kind of people they're pissing off with this, are the same people most likely to switch to bittorrent.
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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1936: any universal turing machine can mimic another
2025: unfortunately your turing machine has a shape we don't like so we will block you from using it productively despite the fact that it has the exact same hardware inside that other machines
Use Jellyfin. Fill your server with treasures procured from the high seas. Watch on any device. Sync play with far away friends or family.
I tried jellyfin for about a month last year, but it lacked a lot of what I was used to in plex, so I returned to it. But lately plex is really going downhill... has jellyfin improved somewhat in this time frame?
I'm not sure what features you feel are lacking. And I haven't used Plex at all.
For me, all I want is being able to connect to it from any device, and sync play.
I’m not sure what features you feel are lacking
As I said, it was about a year ago. I vaguely remember not liking the layout when displayed on my TV, sorting shows/episodes not working correctly, watched list not being properly updated... that and assorted little bugs that finally tired me and I went back to plex
What features? I have both and I vastly prefer Jellyfin. Plex is slow and the menus dont get right to the point.
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my favourite netflix client is jellyfin tbh. it fixes all of netflix's probems.
Does anyone know if it's possible to run a self-hosted Jellyfin server without having to run an entire data center on your house? I could do something simple like a NUC or equivalent and a tiny NAS, anything else?
There's people running old raspberry pis with USB hard drives.
It'll run on just about anything.
Though, you'll only be able to stream original quality, no on the fly quality changes for low speed connections and such.
NUCs (specifically Intel 8th?-gen or later) are pretty much ideal for serving Jellyfin because the Intel integrated graphics can do video transcoding and the software is actually not very demanding otherwise, so the low-power CPUs are fine.
If you were buying hardware specifically for Jellyfin (i.e. didn't want to cobble together something used), I'd suggest an N100 or N150-based NAS mini-PC like this: https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150
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Running on a 2016 intel processor with an old Nvidia 2070. I can watch about 3 streams on different devices at the same time.
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The best part is how in the end-stages of capitalism, everything keeps getting worse for consumers. While prices go up, even. It's awesome. /s
Vote with your dollar and go to Jellyfin, or even simpler, a folder with your media in it.
As a Chromecast user, it seems like Google is trying to kill this feature anyway.
Didn't they just replace it with Google TV at 3x the price?
That and they are adding Google TV into all the old Chromecast and breaking functionality. It's like they side loaded their own app and it... Is not ideal.
Changes like this are always made to "Enhance the user experience" yet the UX only goes backwards
They recently made everything massive blocks of color so now it's impossible to read anything. Damn splash screen takes up a third of my TV
They're made to “Enhance the ~~user experience~~ profit”
“Enhance the user experience” is just what the dev or documentation team writes when management dictates that they drop a feature. The only reasons they would have dropped it:
- Dev work vs actual customer usage (e.g. it wasn't getting a lot of users but devs had to maintain it with each update)
- People were using it to intercept the stream and capture movies to pirate.
Every decision is about increasing profits first, and UX almost always takes a back seat to that
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When is the next VC driven company that focuses more on growth than profit coming? I feel Netflix and all the other streaming services are ripe to be overtaken in the same way Netflix overtook tv channel packaging.
To streaming?
Never.
Streaming is a finite market that is already covered. The moment old money (aka existing media companies) jumped on it, it was done for.
I definitely understand your view and personally don't see a way to disrupt the market either. I just hope someone else finds a way.
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I keep reading this sentence like I'm supposed to know what it means, but I don't care. actually. I'm here to post and say that
Just go Piracy. Real-Debrid + Stremio, Torrent + Hayase or anything else that’s with Piracy.
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Lol why?
Genuinely seems pretty arbitrary given you need to use their app to start the cast anyway
The fact that casting to older devices is allowed on the expensive plan but not the ad-supported one offers a clue.
Because fuck you, that’s why. I’m sure they will re-introduce the feature behind a paywall soon.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once you tell a company that you are willing to pay for something more than once, prepare to get fucked, because that’s all you’re gonna get. And not the fun kind.
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Thou shalt buy a smart tv or other device that we can pull metrics from and force advertising to.
And require to login too
Make no mistake, this was intentional before the holidays so families visiting relatives can't just cast Netflix from their phone to watch something and will require someone to login and use it one of their authorized devices...or coerce them to upgrade if they already have too many authorized devices
What possible benefit does this offer to Netflix? Are they trying to avoid paying licensing fee or something?
Probably. Or they want to reduce their development and maintenance costs with the extra code for those devices. Or maybe they somehow make more money when users are watching on some other device/software.
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I guess I don't do the casting thing much, but what would the application have to do with it? I mean you cast the presentation from the device, does it care what is on the screen at the time?
Yes. DRM
I had no idea. Stupid drm. My device dammit. It will play where I want it to.
The only good thing about Netflix is their diverse global library.
As in, a Netflix subscription plus a VPN, gives you access to a large library of global content.
Taking that into account, it's probably still the best streaming service, which means they're the shiniest turd in the toilet.
But still, Jellyfin FTW.
As if I needed another reason to never get netflix again. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
enshittification
Yeah... There goes my subscription. I'm casting everything to Chromecast on my older TV.
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I'm glad we only have old chrome-casts then because we don't have any smart TVs and might never get one either if it's possible. The little I've interacted with them, they seems to be a real pain in the ass. Some/all of them collect loads of data as well. NO THAN YOU. Yes, I might be old and grumpy :c
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