If you agree it’s a time saver, then you agree it makes workers more efficient. You now have a team of 5 doing the work of a team of 6. From a business perspective it’s idiotic to have more people than you need to, so someone would be let go from that team.

I personally don’t see any issue with this, as it’s been happening for the existence of humanity.

Tools are constantly improving that make us more efficient.

Most of people’s issue with AI is more an issue with greedy humans, and not the technology itself. Lord knows that new team of 5 is not getting the collective pay as the previous team of 6.

Interesting, this has not been my experience. Most people on here seem to treat AI as completely black and white, with zero shades of grey.

You’re a brave one admitting that on here. Don’t you know LLM’s are pure evil? You might as well be torturing children!

I don’t have a source but if you setup a VPN to your home there’s no way plex could know that you aren’t actually home. So as long as local streaming works, then streaming over VPN would work as well.

Similar thing with port forwarding on your router, except it’s much worse for security.

Mainly STUN and TURN servers to allow NAT traversal without having to configure port forwarding and leave your server exposed to the internet.

It’ll use those servers to setup a peer-to-peer connection which at that point you are streaming directly to clients.

If you want to setup a VPN for your users, or open/forward public ports to your server then you do not need to pay.

The same way you’d set up remote plex.

Plex will have some cost associated with remote streaming, so I don’t see any issue with them charging for that.

If people don’t want to pay then they should just set it up themselves, like they would have to do with jellyfin anyways.

Ok sure, they aren’t routing, just using P2P like I mentioned. It’s still not possible to access remotely without using plex services. This is what you are paying for. If you don’t want to pay for their auto-config remote streaming it’s easy enough to do it yourself.

Because he’s right. You can’t access your own server remotely without plex’s infrastructure (provided you don’t just set up that infrastructure yourself). You don’t need to open ports or anything. Your server reaches out to plex server, which creates an entry point to your network. Your stream is then either routed through their servers or possibly setup as P2P stream.

All it means is you can’t go through their servers. If you setup a different way to access your network (VPN) it’ll still work.