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How have they doubled their prices?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2642674/plexs-lifetime-subscription-plan-is-getting-a-massive-price-hike.html

HDD manufacturers have been increasing their prices as of late for the same products that were previously cheaper

Nope. Most recent delta is a decrease of $0.0000022 per MB. And the general trend has been decreasing for decades.

my users can watch on their mobile devices for free using a license I paid for once close to a decade ago.

You sound like a boomer talking about the house they bought decades ago for $75,000.

It’s not the same at all.

Plex practically doubled their prices to access features that users previously had for free.

Can’t remember the last time a HDD manufacturer put previously free features behind a paywall or when a Mullvad doubled its prices.

Not a dumb question at all. There isn’t any software associated with my DAS. It attaches via a USB and mounts like a regular drive. It does have its own power supply so it stays on even when the computer is shut down. Then when the computer restarts, the drive mounts again.

It’s basically a giant attached hard drive.

Please don’t turn this community into a meme dumping ground. You can go to r/piracy for that.

I have a qnap tr-004 das. Works great. Raid5 configuration. Attached to my server. AMA.

This looks neat. Thanks for sharing.

Outside on the BBQ lol

I’d start with proxmox.

What distro are you using? JF recommends Ubuntu.

FWIW, I found TechHut's Jellyfin YouTube tutorials super easy to follow when I was just starting out. He also has a video on FStab which you might eventually find handy. I haven't watched this stuff in long time though so it might be outdated. https://www.youtube.com/c/TechHutHD

i literally have to spell everything out

Yes. You do. That's just the way it goes.

It doesn't matter if you're doing OSS or looking for venture capital, you need to sell your project/product to users. In an OSS project, prospective users need to understand why they should invest their time. You always need an elevator pitch or one liner. In github, the elevator pitch is the "About" section on the right hand side of the page (on desktop).

If you want to see what a good sales job looks like for Open Source, check out hoarder. It's one of the best I've seen and certainly one of the main reasons it has received over 13 thousand stars in about one year.

Most of us started with the TRaSH Guides.

Also it’s not Linux or Windows; it’s Docker (which works on both Linux and Windows).

Also check out YouTube. There are a lot of great tutorials on there.

Why even take the risk? Just talk about something else.