Nibodhika

I have set up both. Honestly Jellyfin was MUCH more easy to setup because Plex requires a very specific way to setup the network otherwise it craps its pants and refuses to work on LAN.

But after figuring out those pain points, both are set and forget. The main differences are privacy concerns vs wide access outside of LAN and on more devices.

How is that different from any promotion like "find the golden ticket and earn an iphone"?

Try being a pacifist Jew in Nazi Germany to see how much good that will do to you and how many alternative solutions you can find or how many soldiers you can convince. That is the context of the quote shared there, pacifist solutions should always be preferred, but sometimes that is not an option, it's the tolerance paradox.

First let me start by saying that I don't think this is the case for this community because the "examples" of misandry OP shared are clearly not misandryc, but:

If you don't identify as a woman, it doesn't matter whatever the fuck is going on in there because it clearly says it's not about you.

That's a problematic logic, imagine a community of white supremacists saying "If you're not white it doesn't matter what we do here, because it's clearly not about you" and you'll understand why.

Dude, chill out, neither of those are misandry.

Do you have a link to that video? Until you do I'll believe the official communication from the company that I linked which has examples on the issues they were facing.

Yup, but all that being said I still run Jellyfin and have no intention of switching to Plex. And while I would like to see them fix these issues, I understand (in part) why they won't and I'm okay with my tail scale setup. Also the vast majority of issues are very minor, but the ability to watch any media without login is so major that I think it's worth bringing up every time someone mentions exposing Jellyfin online.

Agree, I don't consider most of them a risk, but I do like to bring this to the attention of people who are exposing Jellyfin to the web so they can make an informed decision.

Realistically the only advantage of Plex is being able to watch it over the internet without a VPN. Which means it makes it easier to get friends and family access to your server or to access it yourself from random smart tvs outside your house.

If you only watch at home or have a fire stick that you take with you to watch abroad or your friends/family members have one and can setup a VPN on it it's not needed.

You do know that there are security issues with that, right? For example, if someone can guess your media files they can watch them https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

Have they released another update? I've already updated it when they announced the steam compatibility. I was able to get it to dinput and work once, but it reverted and wasn't able to get it to work with he dongle and recognize the back paddles again.

No, there isn't a need for a naive controller driver to be part of steam. So much so that in fact it isn't, the driver on Linux is called hid-steam and it's open source and was developed with help from Valve, which is why the controller works even outside of Steam.

What you keep missing is that the default behavior is purposefully that of a mouse+KB because it's what makes sense. Go ahead and plug the controller on a Linux machine and you will be able to use it as a mouse, click on a game to launch it, then it will become a controller when the game tries to grab it (unfortunately some games try to be smart about this and fail miserably and don't detect it), but a naive one, similar to the Xbox controller, you'll miss the back buttons, touchpads and extra sensors because most controllers don't have them, and without SteamInput to remap those on the fly you'll be left with whatever the game decides to handle, which is usually just an Xbox controller. That SDL thing you linked gives a way for games to handle those extra inputs, but it's still relying on the open source driver that's already there, and it depends on the game to use it.

You're not asking for a driver, you have that already, you're asking for SteamInput to be released separately from Steam, which is a weird ask. SteamInput is a product that Valve develops to bring people to Steam and allows to remap any controller to any input, nothing stops people from making an alternative to it, but expecting Valve to release it separately is weird.