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Tl;dr:
There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning “ripping off” software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it’s easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won’t be “stolen”.
—Jim Warren, July 1976
Yep. What’s considered intuitive UI changes depending on what you’re used to.
It’s why Google fought so hard to put Chromebooks in American classrooms.
I believe you. I feel that way about iTunes (trauma intensifies).
But Jellyfin doesn’t have that reputation.
I set up Plex on my mum’s TV and she can just push play. The UI is intuitive (read: familiar) to her.
Jellyfin has a reputation for giving users more control and customizability, but the other side of that coin is that it’s more “fiddly”.
My users don’t want to fiddle.
I read that. (I literally mentioned features not being paywalled in the original comment.)
If the key doesn’t unlock features, what does it unlock?
Do you get a little thank you message from the devs when you enter it in? Does it add a “Supporter” tag next to your name on the app settings?
The practice exists in both software and games of adding paid cosmetics (e.g. Discord or Deep Rock Galactic) that don’t change the core featureset but allow users to pay more to support the developers, so I think it’s a valid question.
What does the $100 server key unlock (besides “supporter status”), since features aren’t paywalled?
The post on… the opensource Lemmy community for self hosters. Is that the one you’re talking about?
The marketing claims it’s “a gift for your family”.
Not a single comment in that first link mentions family members using it.
Here are the comments from the “people listing their use cases” you mentioned:
My issue isn’t the app itself or it’s users.
It’s the claim that it’s “a gift for your family”.
So this Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever!
What is this marketing?
I cannot imagine a single person who would want this for Thanksgiving.
Most people under the age of 30 use social media now to “preserve memories”.
The people who care about journaling probably have physical paper journals and wouldn’t want an app.
And the people who would want an app… would probably already have installed this themselves.
Or buy this version and then upgrade the storage yourself.
We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.
General
- Disabled internal Chromium Embedded Framework services that utilize Google API integration. These were enabled by a configuration change required to continue updating the Steam Chromium framework but are not necessary for usage in Steam.
Desktop Mode
- Fixed some client and overlay popups not saving position when moved.
That’s the whole update.
I am beginning to remember what made me think Jellyfin wasn’t user friendly.
Maybe it wasn’t the user interface after all.