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• Discussing the discontinuation of Plex Photos camera upload feature
• Expressing skepticism towards Plex's decision-making process
• Discussing Google Stadia and its potential for playing games on any machine
• Building a self-hosted gaming setup using Steam and streaming protocols like Parsec and Moonlight
• Appreciation for site reliability experts (SRE) members who support the show
• Announcing a limited ad feed for SRE members with benefits including extra content and post-show discussions
• Thanking Cloud Guru for their support
• Contact information for the self-hosted show, including social media links and Discord channels
[0.00 --> 7.46] Have you noticed lately that the self-hosted and Homelab subreddits freaking love their dashboards?
[8.10 --> 10.78] Yes, it's dashboards all day. Are you kidding me?
[11.36 --> 16.54] Every third post is, oh, I'm just humble bragging about all the self-hosted services I've got.
[16.54 --> 20.84] And I always feel like my dashboard is not as pretty as it could be.
[21.34 --> 23.22] I mean, they're not even as nice as your dashboards.
[23.30 --> 27.00] And these dashboards are like, they look like you should be controlling a starship with some of them.
[27.00 --> 31.16] The word dashboard has become a sound to me. You've just said it too much.
[31.56 --> 33.66] Dashboard, dashboard. Yeah.
[33.98 --> 39.60] I mean, there's lots of options, right? There is Homer, there is Heindal, there is, I mean, there's dozens of them.
[39.84 --> 46.34] I get why people like them, but they're just another thing to become out of date.
[46.42 --> 52.54] And I find that even if I set one up, the entropy to keeping it up to date is too high.
[52.54 --> 57.88] And six months later, I haven't opened it for a while. And, oh, I don't even run that service anymore.
[57.98 --> 58.90] Why is that still on there?
[59.40 --> 63.06] And it gets worse the more devices you have or you remove or add.
[63.22 --> 67.58] And in some cases, I have devices that go offline or online depending on my location.
[68.16 --> 71.02] And then the dashboard is like messed up temporarily while I'm traveling.
[71.02 --> 74.32] And then I just like debate the entire time if I should remove it.
[74.62 --> 80.06] And God forbid, I take something out and then I have to go everywhere and make sure I've got it removed from my Lovelace dashboard and my Heads Up dashboard.
[80.40 --> 83.04] It's just like it's dashboard overload for me.
[83.46 --> 86.34] But I get the people like they like sharing them.
[86.74 --> 92.74] And I kind of like I like I like viewing them sort of like I enjoy viewing desktop screenshots.
[93.66 --> 95.14] Oh, that's an interesting way to do it.
[95.14 --> 98.56] And sometimes I'm like, never going to do that.
[99.18 --> 100.66] I'm just never going to go that far.
[101.32 --> 102.02] It's discovery.
[102.46 --> 104.80] You know, oh, look, this person's got 47 apps.
[104.94 --> 106.24] What what's this one do?
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[119.86 --> 121.52] Did you see the Plexamp update?
[121.92 --> 122.76] Wow, Alex.
[123.02 --> 124.94] I was wondering if you if you caught this.
[124.94 --> 126.90] I was going to ask you if you saw the new Plexamp.
[127.00 --> 131.48] Yeah, it's it's a big update for for iOS and Android.
[132.02 --> 135.10] And I think at least the iOS one will be really soon.
[135.16 --> 138.36] But the death is a desktop version of Plexamp now as well, which I didn't even know.
[139.02 --> 144.70] And they've added one feature that I've wanted since the very first time I tried Plexamp.
[144.90 --> 146.10] And it's the shuffle button.
[146.52 --> 148.30] So happy to have a shuffle button now.
[148.90 --> 150.28] I don't know what to say to that.
[150.92 --> 154.50] And I know you're going to be elated to see that they've also added Siri support.
[154.50 --> 159.22] So now you can play music on Plexamp through Siri, which I'm sure you're going to use all the time.
[160.04 --> 165.48] And as you know, as being a heavy iOS user, I'm not I'm still on Android.
[165.62 --> 173.26] I tried to switch to iOS in January, but was wearing a lot of face masks in the hospital and face ID and all that.
[173.26 --> 175.00] I ended up going back to Android.
[175.20 --> 179.46] So I was delighted to see that they've now added Siri support.
[179.90 --> 180.28] That's true.
[180.44 --> 180.96] That's true.
[181.06 --> 182.14] And it works.
[182.28 --> 183.16] You know, it's very simple.
[183.66 --> 185.38] It's it's nothing really to write home about.
[185.46 --> 187.56] That's probably stuff that should have had a long time ago.
[187.56 --> 197.26] And I think in general, Plexamp is probably one of my favorite Plex adjacent ecosystem applications.
[197.26 --> 200.82] We get people that write into the show and they'll say, why do you guys use Plex?
[200.90 --> 201.62] There's Jellyfin.
[201.76 --> 202.58] There's other alternatives.
[202.58 --> 218.08] There's just this this ecosystem around Plex now between the friends that I can share with, like Alex, for library sharing options, but also these apps around Plex that break off like the music experience into this individual app that's dedicated to just music.
[218.08 --> 219.34] It's it's just wonderful.
[219.34 --> 222.62] And it's nice to see it get updated to version 3.4.5.
[222.62 --> 227.64] It really makes the music experience in Plex quite pleasurable, to be honest with you.
[227.64 --> 235.66] And the design language they've used for the application brings it up to the same sort of polish as something like Spotify or something like that.
[236.08 --> 239.70] It is just a 100% native looking music app.
[239.80 --> 241.24] And I think it's freaking great.
[241.70 --> 243.34] There's some things that aren't so freaking great, though.
[243.88 --> 244.98] Good and bad, I suppose.
[245.16 --> 251.46] Plex revealed that it recently completed a growth equity round of 50 million dollars from an existing investor.
[251.76 --> 252.74] Oh, yeah.
[252.74 --> 252.88] Yeah.
[253.18 --> 258.76] And the company intends to invest its money in a mission to become a one stop shop for movies and TV.
[258.94 --> 261.74] And it aims to do this by addressing one of the most fuss.
[262.18 --> 268.70] And it aims to do this by addressing one of the most frustrating aspects today in the legal streaming market, they say.
[268.82 --> 271.04] And that is fragmentation.
[271.54 --> 273.06] You know, all the different streaming services.
[273.06 --> 279.28] They want to bring it all into Plex, including your pirated content or whatever else you might have on there.
[279.28 --> 284.98] Like for me, we use Plex for just home videos that we record that we don't want to put up like on YouTube or something.
[285.42 --> 287.88] And they want to bring it all into one UI.
[288.32 --> 294.18] And you can search all of it from the stuff in your own library to the stuff that's on Hulu to Netflix and Amazon Prime.
[294.92 --> 304.18] And Plex says they're going to work with these companies to get API access and integrate it all in there and try to make an experience where you go to one app and you get all the streaming services.
[304.80 --> 307.32] I mean, I understand why they're doing this.
[307.32 --> 314.12] Because the revenue streams of a few Plex Pass subscribers surely can't self-sustain the company.
[314.84 --> 322.78] I mean, myself, as an example, I paid $75 for a lifetime Plex Pass half a decade ago, more than probably.
[323.48 --> 325.28] And they haven't seen a penny from me since.
[325.42 --> 335.50] And so, you know, I can understand how, you know, Hulu and Disney and Prime and Netflix are juicy targets for them to try and integrate into one place.
[335.50 --> 344.34] But if I was Netflix or Prime or Disney, I'm not sure I would want people going outside my walled garden.
[344.34 --> 352.30] Because the whole reason that these companies have dedicated gardens, walled gardens for their content is so that they can do analytics on it.
[352.30 --> 357.38] And they can track you through, you know, minute by minute, second by second of what you're watching.
[357.38 --> 364.06] I mean, the Grand Tour is a great example of this, you know, old Top Gear turned into the Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson and all that.
[364.38 --> 366.94] One of my favourite TV shows of all time.