I enjoy plex but the sync feature being missing isn’t saying much. It barely works on plex too. 😝

These kinds of conversations make me miss WASTE.

I don’t disagree with you on alternatives but again it’s challenging for the technical folks amongst our peer groups to help adoption of an alternative if we can’t provide places for the folks we support to download the alternative and try it

There’s no way for any of my family or friends to understand how to build their own browser, let alone setup a WSL2 environment to make it work. Their eyes are going to glaze over at the thought then they’re going to go download something else.

They don’t even have builds. How can we support tools the bulk of users can’t easily implement or recommend non technical people to try?

Captive finance companies do this all the time because they make money on the margin of the product. The financing is just an incentive to get up to purchase the product.