Mendicant_Bias

Doesn't it use their servers to set up the connection between the client and the host? And I seem to recall that if you have a double NAT situation (or something like that) then it will actually stream the content over their servers as well.

Don't want to discredit your experience but...

Me and my wife visited Copenhagen for a short city break back before we were married (and before we had much money). People were very welcoming. For example, we visited a small wine bar and could only afford the very cheapest option, the owner did not care at all and happily hosted us for the duration. Same at the coffee spot across from the hotel - guy there helped us get our bearings.

Now, that's not particularly noteworthy compared to other places in Europe that we've visited, but we definitely never felt unwelcome. The only issue I had with Copenhagen is a me-issue, I'm not a seafood person at all, and that's a huge part of their cuisine. I'm fact, that's a recurring issue for me. Love food, but not seafood! But then love places that love seafood! Argh!

Now we know why he's keeping Elon around, he needs a lift.

How is that any different from Plex? Other than presumably a worse experience.

Why do you need to explain to your family and friends how to switch to Jellyfin, if you have a lifetime pass and therefore aren't impacted at all by this announcement?

Similar price for a lifetime Plex pass (until end of April)... just saying...

What paid content? I have a Plex lifetime pass and I can't recall ever being asked to pay for anything? I can remember them dumping free TV channels in there at some point, but I simply switched that off and it's not come back.

From reading the article, sounds like you're situation won't change.

I'm not sure where you're getting that from, the article literally states the price hasn't changed in 10 years, and still hasn't, but it finally will on the 29th of April.

This tracks with my experience as it's probably been 10 years since I bought the lifetime pass and here in the UK it's often on sale for basically the same price (about £75 if I recall).

Relevant username 😅

I guess teaching people how to drag-and-drop audio files onto their phone and open them with VLC would be a much shorter article.

It would be a consistently worse experience going forwards, which I think is the point. A little effort up front (and fun, probably, if you're into this sort of thing) for a more convenient user experience (and probably extra satisfaction as well) is the reason people do this sort of thing, is it not? Sure, compared to some things you can do with self hosting, it's not going to be life-changing. But, worth the effort for some. I'm taking notes from this thread as it's probably the next thing on my to do list.

To be honest I'm no expert on the possibilities so I'm not going to be able to answer that other than to maybe reach out to your HR people and ask for some details on what your options are. Or ask on r/UKPersonalFinance.

thesalarycalculator.co.uk is a good site if you wanna compare how different scenarios affect your take home pay. E.g. put your salary in with student loan ticked for plan 1 and your pension contributions at their current level, then note the take home pay per month. Then do the same but with student loan not ticked, to see how much that increases your take home. Then experiment with upping the pension contributions until the take home pay matches the value you were getting before you took the student loan off. That'll give you an idea of how much you can increase your pension contributions without noticing a difference in your monthly pay. Then head over to one of the various pension calculator sites (Aviva is decent and simple) and see how much bigger your pension pot could end up if you do that. Will probably be quite substantial!