along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 days agoPlex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this weekarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down13cross-posted to: selfhosted@lemmy.world
arrow-up1109arrow-down1external-linkPlex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this weekarstechnica.comalong_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 days agomessage-square69fedilinkcross-posted to: selfhosted@lemmy.world
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoNot OP, never used Plex, I make accounts for people and send them the address, username and password, that’s it. As for the work I had to do, I run Proxmox so I copy pasted a command from the PVE community scripts, and set up a reverse proxy.
minus-squareblitzen@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 hours agoMaking accounts / passwords for other people seems like a bad enough idea that I’d rather pay for PlexPass.
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 hours agoWould you rather allow everyone access to your server?
minus-squareblitzen@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoWith Plex, everyone has their own accounts they are responsible for. They create the account and set the password. You give those accounts access. I couldn’t stand the onslaught of “what’s my passwords.”
Not OP, never used Plex, I make accounts for people and send them the address, username and password, that’s it.
As for the work I had to do, I run Proxmox so I copy pasted a command from the PVE community scripts, and set up a reverse proxy.
Making accounts / passwords for other people seems like a bad enough idea that I’d rather pay for PlexPass.
Would you rather allow everyone access to your server?
With Plex, everyone has their own accounts they are responsible for. They create the account and set the password. You give those accounts access.
I couldn’t stand the onslaught of “what’s my passwords.”