Which one?

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Now with paragraphs.

Do I misunderstand emby or does it just not seem like a good deal on the basis of it being an ongoing subscription?

I use the free version of emby and it’s really great. There was at least one feature that required payment to unlock.

I like emby already and when I tried using jellyfin, the core features that were on both it and the free version of emby worked far less reliably and the paid feature on emby that was free on Jellyfin, worked extremely unreliably.

Obviously resources and development had been spent to make something that worked very well and their paid feature probably would too.

I use emby to make it easier to cast media locally to my chromecast and to access media on my computer, from my phone in my bedroom, so for me, it’s a fancy file browser and media player.

The feature I wanted was to do with free to air tv streaming and I was thinking I’d be happy to pay for the Emby software to unlock this since they made good software that works. But here’s the thing, it’s FREE to air TV and yet they want me to pay, ongoing, in a perpetual arrangement to use it. I don’t get it.

I use it to play media, but the media is my media stored on my machines. I understand software development isn’t free, I was happy to pay ONCE, but why would I keep paying when they don’t actually produce the media I use it to play? That seemed unjustifiable.

Sure, at an obscene price.

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Well, there ya go.

OP can’t reply; cat slit their throat.

I miss that

Thank you for articulating what I was trying to get at with OP.

Drag probably wouldn’t want the library books Drag has been reading to be splashed across the town when the revolution happens.

Also, Drag’s bank doesn’t sound as secure as it should be; if I were Drag I would move my shiny rocks elsewhere.

Just don’t travel to the USA. Or 100 miles into the interior of the United States from any land or maritime border.

And I’m the queen of France.

…for social media?

Where someone can impersonal you and scam people out of money? Yes. 2FA.

…Fucking weather?

I mean, I’m not here to kink shame but, probably? I’m partially wondering now what weather looks like when it fucks. Like a tornado in a sinkhole?

…every single site requiring it is a cumulative time and hassle burden that is not worth it.

It wouldn’t be necessary IF:

1. People chose decent passwords that were different for every login
2. Website security was taken seriously by anyone who has a login.

Will QNAP or Synology be enough for my needs and can I install custom software there?

Probably? Most likely yes, today. Next week 2 month / year when you decide to run something else or more, not so much.

I don’t really want to create hardware from scratch.

A desktop running NAS like software will work.

From another comment from op

I don’t want to hear the fans

You put a NAS under load and you’re gonna a hear fans.

I want something that turns on and off as necessary.

Run enough things on your NAS and it’ll never have the time to turn off.