I’ve got a friend working on this process right now. He openly admitted to me that the premise is fucked up and there are far more deserving populations that should be let in, but the simple fact is,he would be an absolute moron to pass up this opportunity for him and his family. It’s a fast track to the place he wants to be and provides better futures for his children. Why wouldn’t you take the free ticket?

Some of the people here on lemmy forget their humanity sometimes.

It’s ok bud. You misattributed the sunk cost fallacy. It happens. I’ve done it before too… No worries.

A sunk cost fallacy requires a continued investment in a lost cause. I financially have contributed no extra to Plex after my initial investment. I’ve nothing to lose now. No sunk cost. Is time or effort a sunk cost? Possibly? But I already invested that time and effort. My maintenance is also zero, same as my future financial investment. Switching to jellyfin increases my cost in time and effort that I already invested in Plex. Why bail unless necessary? It’s illogical.

The difference between unusable and inferior was never the cusp of this argument to begin with. The distinction of “unusable” vs “inferior” can clearly be acertained by the context of my first full reply. Interestingly enough, your reubuttle is a textbook use of the informal fallacy known as “moving the goalposts”

One again, it’s all good. Don’t worry. My point that Plex is still superior for my use case and I have the incentive to continue using it, still stands. Your use of the sunk cost falacy is disproven on the merit of, that’s not a real example of sunk cost, and also using additional fallacies to defend your position render your point invalid.

I rest my case.

That’s not a sunk cost fallacy at all. I’m not playing catch up, I’m already ahead.

I am thinking about it logically. Plex is the superior experience, and considering I’ve already gotten my money’s worth out of it, they are both free. So why would I use the service that works less well for my use case?

If the user experience continues to degrade, when it finally gets to jellyfin level, I’ll switch.

Perfectly logical, no fallacies here.

Same. Got it cheap. Untill they break lifetime. Why bail? I’m not compromising my own experience because someone else was too cheap, lazy or slow.

Is it messed up what they are doing? Yeah. But that’s not my fault. Nor is someone missing out on the very clear signposts about what was going to happen. I’m not sacrificing my user experience and investment to justify someone else’s missed opportunity or vendetta.

I already paid when it was cheap. I’ll stay and get my full dollars worth and then some. I paid for it, I’ll use it. When it is unusable I’ll bail. Anything else is stupid.

Same. And to be honest my 7 year old PC is doing fine.replaced the graphics a year ago. I’m still running 16 GB ddr4 but I have room for two more. Motherboard is fine. Case is fine. Added cooling. Linux helped out a ton.

It handles everything I want. I game casually , maybe on the higher end of the bell curve. I’m not bleeding edge but I’m far from suffering performance wise. and my wallet has thanked me.

Don’t fall into the rat race. Upgrade as needed. Hell if I looked at what I’m “getting by with” a decade ago, past me would absolutely shit himself.

God damn I brought an old atom back to life with the leanest distro I could run just a month ago. 1gb ram. It is an absolute paperweight.

The atom processors were garbage when they came out. I hate e waste as much as the next person but that’s a level of masochism I will not subject myself to. Pull the salvageables and refine the rest into a pawn shop puddle.

Its a good way to find out who wants an exorbitant payday for minimal effort.

Morality aside, it’s the same as the comedians that did the last tour. It is all about the money. They never agreed with the actions of these offensive regimes. Hell i don’t agree with the actions of my own. But I’m not getting paid ten million to look the other way so it’s easy to stand on the high road and judge.

I would love to say I myself am above that sort of influence, but I’m probably not. I could internally justify far less to be honest.

I’m a pilot. I talk to atc all the time. You don’t want a call of duty oficianados and sweaty gamers. You want the kid that plays factoro who also micros farming sims on the side for fun. We have full functioning discords for flying sims already. Those guys are already working for atc. I want that rainman autistic with the verbal skills of an FM radio jockey. Its not an easy job, but fortnight ain’t the answer I can promise you that.

Yeah. That’s unfortunate. An absolute travesty. But we’ve found a way to fix what we have fucked up. And that’s good. Don’t minimalize it.

We’ve broken the system. That sucks. But we’ve found a way to fix it for now. Not as good, but we are trying to do something.

Give some credit to the folks that are trying to fix our fuck ups. God damn it some people have realized what a mess we’ve made and are trying to do something to fix it. Small wins may just save our asses if we let them stack up enough.