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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • In a nutshell, if your app isn’t able to make a direct connection to your Plex Media Server when you’re away from home, we can act as sort of a middle man and “relay” the stream from your server to your app. To accomplish this, your Plex Media Server establishes a secure connection to one of our Relay servers. Your app then also connects securely to the same Relay server and accesses the stream from your Plex Media Server. (In technical terms, the content is tunneled through.)

    So, your Plex Media Server basically “relays” the media stream through our server so that your app can access it since the app can’t connect with your server directly.

    Source: https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-relay/

    It’s not a requirement to stream and it’s sort of dumb they are lumping this relay service as a part of the remote streaming. Remote streaming should be allowed for free - if you are not a subscriber. The relay should just be a paid service, which makes sense. But if it’s a direct connection to my server, it should be free.

    That being said, I understand how Plex may have built some technical debt into this relay system. It might be hard for them to decouple the relay from the remote streaming. What they should have done is:

    We are removing the relay service as a free service, but you can still do remote streaming with a direct connection.

    And they should have built their architecture in a way that’s easy to decouple the two services.



  • That’s true for PC gaming but might not be true for these NUCs. I’m not an expert but I wouldn’t be surprised if they shaved costs with bulk purchases of RAM and SSDs for these devices. Regardless, I was just addressing a point you made about being forced to buy the components yourself which isn’t the case. Pricing is probably going to vary wildly depending on what you pick and you might be able to save money if you’re ok with less RAM or less storage.




  • Personally, it sounds like you need to repair yourself before seeking out relationships. If you’re miserable and seeking company, I don’t think you’re going to find that makes for a good relationship foundation. You’re going to therapy which is a great idea. But I get the sense you’re not taking the possibility that you’re unhappy seriously enough. Based on your description, you’re unhappy and “fucked up” and want someone just like that. That’s not going to end well in any regard. This is coming from someone with a long history of mental health struggles who has also found themselves in similar relationships.

    You’re going to need to see therapy as a way to get past that fucked up self. I ended up taking SSRIs. I needed medication to heal. It took me a long time before finally admitting that, but it changed my life. I believe you need to find something to help you truly heal yourself whether it’s medication, CBT, group therapy, etc. You don’t have to be fucked up and pessimistic forever. Being optimistic and/or having stability doesn’t mean you’re naive to the world around you. It doesn’t mean you have to change your worldviews entirely. It just means you’re not actively destroying yourself as a result of your worldviews.

    I just can’t imagine two miserable people making a good relationship. Someone will always seek out a way to find pleasure or relief from that misery: cheating, drug abuse (not just drug use), abuse of each other, etc.

    I’m not a therapist, but I’ve dealt with depression for decades. That’s just my 2 cents.