It’s been talked about to death. It’s been analysed to death.

But here’s a very detailed and thorough breakdown:

https://youtu.be/0Udn7WNOrvQ

Lied

He’s on float plane

I’ll never support anyone on that platform. I’ll never do anything to give LTT a cent.

It’s a tech illiterate YouTuber for tech illiterate people that think they are tech literate

That’s a great way to say it. I usually just call him a “tech entertainer” that real tech people look down on. But I like your version.

The video that really polarized my opinion on them was their “storage server upgrade” video where they worked on replacing their horribly and amateurishly configured storage server.

Wendell from Lvl1 and Allan Jude (maintainer for OpenZFS) commented on LTT’s setup and, while they didn’t outright say anything negative, they didn’t have anything good to say and their tone heavily implied they thought LTT are posers.

Linus Sebastian

I cannot believe he still has a channel worth anything. I think LTT favs might actually be worse than Swift8es

Plex (originally) and Jellyfin are a centralized way of managing your media with aesthetic and easy to use interfaces. I have one Jellyfin server and I have a Netflix/Display+ type interaction with my media. I have the same content on my phone, wife’s phone, my desktop, laptop, my TV, etc.

All watch history, recommendations, up next queue, and so on.

And with the right setup (Wireguard in my case) I can access that content from anywhere.

MM/DD/YYYY

DD/MM/YYYY

Both of these are the wrong way to format dates.

But nobody who uses it treats it like “just a tool.”

I do. I use it to tighten up some lazy code that I wrote, or to help me figure out a potential flaw in my logic, or to suggest a “better” way to do something if I’m not happy with what I originally wrote.

It’s always small snippets of code and I don’t always accept the answer. In fact, I’d say less than 50% of the time I get a result I can use as-is, but I will say that most of the time it gives me an idea or puts me on the right track.

Three incoherent replies with jumbled run-on sentences.

the businesses with clean perfect sites tend to be the scams

Uhhh, no. Objectively no. A legit website is not going to have spelling mistakes and broken links. Looking professional and thorough is a direct lead to increased business. What you just said is completely false, and frankly idiotic.

Everything else you said (in all three replies) is just a jumbled mess of a brain dump that I’m not even going to try and address any of it.

No, I didn’t say this “isn’t a nice site”. I said it’s “suspicious as hell”.

Having a working site and a navigable “About Us” page isn’t “nice”. It’s the bare minimum I would expect of any legitimate nice or ugly site.

There’s just a lot on their site that reeks of sloppy scammers.

Its so cheap to just get a vps from a littlecreekhosting deal

This site seems suspicious as hell. Incredibly basic site, no info on where they’re located, and the “About Us” links aren’t even links. There’s no About Us page.

Kinda. Generally the user files (including custom installed applications) are on a rw partition. Whereas the system files (OS files, root folder, etc) are on a ro partition. When updates are applied to the core system they come as complete images. No compiling from source on the fly.

The advantages to this is that it should be near impossible to break your system. If you need to roll back to a previous version the system just/downloads/mounts the previous image. There is less flexibility in terms of changing system files. But the idea with immutable distros is that you shouldn’t be modifying system files anyways, and there are different ways to accomplish things.

A really good example is Android. Android (non-rooted) is kinda-sorta an immutable distro. Except it uses an A/B partition method, where the active system downloads and installs to the other partition, triggers a flag, then a reboot picks up the flag and boots from the newly installed partition. If anything goes wrong, another flag is triggered and it boots from the “good” partition.

It’s not quite the same, but at a high-level it kinda is.

Edit: article I found about it

https://linuxblog.io/immutable-linux-distros-are-they-right-for-you-take-the-test/

That’s entirely untrue.

That’s like saying Windows is meant for Visual Studio developers. You could use other IDEs but that’s not its strong point.

In a world where space is usually the cheapest and most available hardware on a PC

I read this in the movie trailer guy’s voice

I’d like to introduce you to BetaNews. The second one of the authors posts an article about anything Linux related, there’s this group that jumps straight to the comments about how much Linux sucks, it will never replace Windows, these Linux fanboys need to give it up already, etc. It’s so consistent that you could set your watch to what they say.

Ok, so you’re implying people were using their videos for free instead of paying for the streaming services. Then Plex wanted more money so they’ve started to charge people for using their own stuff.

That’s fine, and frankly I agree with that.

But your initial reply to me is still irrelevant to the discussion.

It’s irrelevant because even Plex themselves made no mention of their in-house streaming stuff. The discussion is about being charged to view your videos, hosted on your own self-hosted server, viewed on your own device.

But the blog post from Plex was specifically talking about charging for remotely accessing your own files. So your point is irrelevant to the discussion.

Streaming requires high-performance, high-bandwidth machines that cost anywhere from several dozen dollars to several hundred dollars a month. You build a resilient high-availability network, and you could easily be looking at several tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Are you under the impression that Plex uploads the movie files to their servers and then transcodes them there, or something?

And the hard work happens on your own hardware. All Plex’s servers are doing is acting as a signaling server, but no media or routed through Plex’s servers.