kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

oh okay, interesting. well, you could always use the web browser on your phone/ipad i guess. not a great experience but i know for a fact that plex works on ios in chrome at the very least.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

Plex has pretty bad DV "support" as an example. AFAIK it will only play back dolby vision profiles that have the HDR10 compatibility mode or whatever. Any time I get an older DV file I have to play it through some Android TV app.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 9 points 4 days ago

Ease of setup was how I just got one techie friend and two non-techie gamer friends to set up Plex servers and we had libraries shared to each other within 15-30 minutes. I don't want to think about explaining VPNs and SSL to them for the alternatives.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago

Plex still offers that option, it's just buried in the settings.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

i'm not sure why it would do this, i've never had any issues with watching plex while the internet is down (in fact that was one of my original uses for it, to have movies and tv in a building without internet). I don't have it turned on but I do know you can go into server settings -> network and set a list of IPs/subnets that can access without any authorization at all. That lets you use plex without even having a plex account afaik.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As a techie I hate this answer but it's hard to beat a Roku with Plex from an ease of use standpoint. My 70+ year old parents have no problem navigating it.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's corporate speak for "we need to drive plex pass subscriptions more so we need to lock more feature behind it."

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow, that sounds highly inconvenient. I wish it was as easy to re-flash android TVs as it is to re-flash android phones. Best of luck, and keep us updated if you find a solution!

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've never used the tuner/TV part of my sony x900f, only HDMI inputs and apps. Is google pushing ads to live tv now?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago

Broadcasting your own theme song while jetting around the galaxy in the flagship of the Federation is possibly the biggest Riker move I've ever seen hahahaha.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

lol I was gonna try and continue the joke but i went to look up the lyrics and this amused the shit out of me. It's apparently more popularly known as "that song from star trek enterprise" than as a rod stewart song!

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, right, the Orions. For sure Gene put quite a bit of his prejudices into the races, which then got amplified by early Trek writers' tendency towards mono-cultures, and I think all of Star Trek has had trouble trying to figure out how to fix it. Enterprise decided to just lean into the stereotypes hard though for some reason. The Ferengi were an anti-semetic caricature in TNG until the DS9 writers worked to expand their culture on screen and move away from some of Gene's more troubling stereotypes. Hell, they had an entire arc where Rom and Leela worked to literally dismantle the existing Ferengi culture into something more aligned with Starfleet ideals. It took until Lower Decks, a 30-some odd minute cartoon, for them to do something similar with the Orions. So I guess the point of this ramble is that, while nothing is gonna change these old episodes, if you wanna see some positive progress for the Orions I would highly recommend watching LD if you haven't already!

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