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Streaming traffic has to go through the Plex proxies if your server isn't exposed to the internet (meaning proper port forwarding, no CG-NAT and no other ISP fuckery that would prevent such functionality).

Of the 25 million users of Plex, how many do you think have the setup (either the ability or availability) that supports direct playback remotely?

Ideally yes, only basic things like authentication and server mapping should go through the main Plex servers but sadly this isn't the case. And Plex has provided that service for years, for free. Them asking money for a service that isn't free to run, is fair game.

What isn't fair is how they've been doing it.

Okay, let's clarify something.

Plex has been essentially "giving away" a service for the better part of what, 20 years?

And that service is the remote proxying of your server and its access. Basically, you didn't need to open a port, expose your server to the public, Plex provided a proxy through which you could stream to your heart's content, knowing that your server is both accessible and (more or less, more than if you managed it yourself in most cases) secure.

Now obviously, they are a company and thus need to make revenue to continue developing the server, clients, and maintaining the infrastructure. Mind you, Plex has 25 million active monthly users... Even if just 10% of that is active at any given moment, streaming at 10Mbps... that's 25 MILLION megabits per sec. 25 thousand gigabits. 25 terabits. PER. SECOND. Being proxied through infra Plex has to pay for. Your average proxy/CDN dataserver unit can do usually around 100 gigabit, meaning Plex needs 250 of those. Just to serve 10% of the userbase.

And don't forget that, unlike "traditional streaming platforms" where CDNs can greatly amplify bandwidth (due to repeating same content to thousands/millions of people), Plex can't easily utilise this infrastructure approach, AND they have to constantly stream INTO the proxy as well as outwards (a CDN pulls in the source file once and then distributes it, Plex literally needs to pull the data stream on-demand, without storing it).

I don't like these restrictions they're putting in, "enshittifying" the service - e.g. if I have my server forwarded properly and don't need to go through their proxy, I should be given a free pass (albeit I already have that since I bought lifetime Plex Pass), but I do get how it would be annoying for the average user to not realise why they're asked to pay when their friend isn't.

Joshuah the Messiah/Anointed, yes.

See that wouldn't really work. The modern "Jesus" is actually quite far from the original old Hebrew/Aramaic name he would've used.

No, it would've been Yeshua or Yehoshua (the Bible has some shifting references as to when the longer form of the name might've gotten shortened to Yeshua).

Similarly, "Christ" isn't something used in Aramaic. It's not even technically his name, it's more of a title, from the Greek Χριστός (Christos, translating as "anointed), which in Hebrew would be mashiakh - or in direct English translation... Messiah.

Furthermore Yeshua was a quite common name at the time, in Nazareth alone you would've found a handful, even though the village was maybe a thousand people at the time.

The context doesn't matter. The bottom line is that FPGAs provide flexibility, not improved performance. Period.

Imagine how shocked the world would be if it turns out the Arabic word for God comes from a black box recording that got swung back in time after a plane crash, with the last bit of the recording being stuck...

that last bit of recording? copilot waking up right before the crash, calling out to the pilot called Allan, but halfway through the word it turns into a scream. All-AAAAAAAH! BOOM.

And the whole world is just stuck on this otherwise insignificant fact. Never mind that someone just dug up carbon-dated 2000-ish year old contemporary technology, proving time travel is possible, or that people 2000-ish years ago managed to somehow make that tech work enough to influence the third largest language in a very significant manner... No, it's the fact that the Arabic word for God came from a guy named Allan.

Would you look at my peonies! They've grown MASSIVE this year.

I'm very much aware of FPGA-style attempts, however I do feel the need to point out that FPGAs (and FPGA style computing) is even more hardware-strained than emulation.

For example, current mainstream emulation FPGA DE10 Nano has up to 110k LE/LUT, and that gets you just barely passable PS1 emulation (primarily, it's great for GBA emu, and mid to late 80s, early 90s game console hardware emulation). In fact it's not even as performant as GBA emulation on ARM - it uses more power, costs more, and the only benefit is true to OG hardware execution (which isn't always true for emulation).

Simply said, while FPGAs provide versatility, they're also much less performant than similarly priced SoCs with emulation of the specific architecture.

y. pronounce it.

Weird way to segue to your mum.

Sounds like you're the kind of person who needs the "don't put your fucking pets in the microwave" warnings.

Not even remotely? RSS/ATOM is in no way federated or has anything to do with the Fediverse.

All this means that government news will be accessible in a standardised format.