MrSpArkle

I can’t fucking read this article.

Correct, they could do without, which is why I rely on Plex's transcoded downloads to cram a cross-country flight's worth of stuff onto their iPads.

Good suggestion though.

I'm not so much nitpicking Jellyfin as I am highlighting how crucial transcoded downloads are for my use case, and attempting to get you to have empathy for that use case.

Like, based on the headline I was ready to try out Jellyfin because fuck Plex, but alas, I can't bail just yet.

Maybe being silent on the matter is best, people asking for features is a dumb way to improve software.

I mean the person you’re talking to is having trouble grasping the concept of friends.

Alternately I could keep using plex.

This is a huge problem. The blueray remux might be 80 gigs. Most children’s devices will already be filled with other crap.

If you’re an Apple user the AppleTV is exactly this. It’s probably Apple’s most fairly priced computing device.

Most of the discords I’m on never use screen share for anything.

This is the most defensible point. Designing APIs to determine what content on your screen is ok to send to a third party (Apple offers ChatGPT integration) is a decent amount of work.

Sure, here's a station just for you.

magical machine bullshit ruse to trick us into funding the launch of capitalism into space

Your ideology begets your conclusions. You are a troll, intentional or not.

They were running everything on a single rack during the first big rush.