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I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.

It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.

What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?

EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into "smaller" instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can't remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I want jellyfin, but the number of devices I'd have to manually setup around my house, tvs etc, is daunting and terrifying.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Man, I've been running Plex for about a decade without a ton of issues. I tried jellyfin, and I can't get video to play anywhere that's not the PC that's running it. What am I doing wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Home assistant vs Homeseer.

Home seer will cost you 300-500$.

It's add-ons and extensions are all paid.

Home assistant is literally better in every way possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

does anyone know if there's a free alternative in Visual Studio to PHPTools? I refuse to believe the only way to debug PHP in visual studio is a paid license extension

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GNOME Document Scanner is surprisingly working smoothly out-of-the-box (with Brother printer at least)

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