bean

Truth 👆

When they monitor what you watch and who you share it with, it’s enshittified. Fuck Plex. I used to be a lifetime drum thumper. Stopped a few years ago.

Plex doesn’t care about you, your comfort, ease. It wants your money and it wants to monitor and control what you do with your own data.

Fuck. That.

I third this! I saw title and came to say.

It’s actively being developed still, I get emails like once every 1–3 weeks, sometimes more. Sometimes less.

I use docker desktop for this. I also lowkey learned how to set up a multi-database for this at one point, but kinda stopped after I got it working. More to see if I could.

I also tried bare metal building this, but had shit luck. It’s been a couple years though. Docker just makes it easy as hell.

I still keep all the originals separate just in case, and the tool can help you make multiple copies too (like PDF-A). I’ve never needed to go back and use those though, as Paperless just works so well once you get the hang of it and how you want your data stored.

I picked a structure that kind of lets me find stuff easily even if the tool is not running (like just by folder structures).

I’ve yet to make this online available for obvious reasons. But it would be nice to be able to pull up pretty much any document you need, any time.

Any suggestions on safe web access quickly from a phone might be helpful (WireGuard maybe?) if you have them.

I’ve been using Plex many years. I abandoned it about 1-2 years ago when they began their enshittification journey. Now I see they are continuing to double down on being assholes.

They do not need any more resources to allow people to use what already exists. Most people run their own servers, and, they track all that by the way. Hence why people moved away from it.

Don’t give them your money. Let them rot. They fucked their user base who built them.