6 Jellyfin plugins that add free features Plex charges you for
…Remote streaming requires a Plex Pass Your own server shouldn't require a subscription to leave the house Remote Streaming was one of the main reasons many users stayed loyal to Plex…
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I tried Photoshop, Affinity, and GIMP for a month and the winner isn’t what you think
…While the core software is free to use, you need an active Canva subscription to unlock its AI features. Because these tools are powered directly by Canva’s engine, I kept my…
Hoarding 4K remuxes is what having a 70TB Plex server is all about
…Sure, I don't have any monthly bills for streaming services, but the cost of running a large Plex server is certainly not zero, either. There are the costs of electricity for…
I set up a home server for the first time and these 5 apps changed everything
…The first time I opened the web interface everything was laid out nicely, just as you'd expect on a subscription-based streaming service. Day to day, Jellyfin handles everything I used…
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The cheapest smart home automation I ever set up cost me less than a dollar
…A hub, a smart speaker, a few bulbs, a sensor or two , maybe a subscription somewhere in the stack, and at that point, it's transformed from a simple upgrade to a…
4 reasons Plex is pushing me further and further towards Jellyfin
…Considering that I got into Plex just so I could enjoy streaming my favorite movies and videos without getting bled by constant subscription fees, the fact that the application doesn’t support…
NAS makers are slowly admitting people want home servers, not just storage boxes
…At some point in the last few years, subscription costs began to pile up , streaming libraries fragment further every quarter, and the idea of paying indefinitely for software you could run yourself…
I stopped burning through my Claude limits, and these simple tricks are the reason
…They have different capabilities, speeds, and most importantly, different costs to your usage limits. When it comes to Claude, you'll find three models: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. Opus is currently Anthropic…
I stopped hitting my Claude limits by changing how I start conversations, not how much I use them
…Sign in to your XDA account Remember when the only subscriptions you needed to pay for monthly were the obvious ones? Spotify or Apple Music so you could listen to anything without…
My favorite alternative to Office 365 isn’t LibreOffice – it’s something way cooler
…Tweak the power consumption metrics on the host machine and configure remote backup workflows, and you’ve got a beast of a private cloud that not only costs $0 in subscription fees…