Yeah, in retail I discovered time is just a construct and just planned my sleep around my shift. If I closed tomorrow, I’d just get to bed tonight about 02:30 so I could be up at 10:30. I spent more time exclusively in an opening shift in my 15 years, and so I certainly preferred waking up at 04:30. On any of the schedules that I wrote, I always gave some space around a schedule flip if I needed an opener to close or vise versa, because I know it sucks.

For a year, I worked a single overnight shift and 9-5 otherwise - so I’d just stay up all day Saturday, just basically pull an all-nighter and work through the night Saturday night and then tried to nap as early but as little as possible Sunday so I could still sleep Sunday night ahead of my 9am shift Monday.

There’s definitely a variety of shitty schedules in retail. Sucks.

Only because society says you are. You should watch Hank Green’s newest video.

https://youtu.be/JcwO11MQ5Uo

It won’t hit all at once for a lot of different reasons. Retailers’ back stock is not subject to tariff because it has already been imported. Raw material lead times for products assembled in the US will be longer than products imported ready for store shelves. Apple recently made the news for importing planefuls of iPhones the weekend before the tariff was applied. Smaller businesses won’t be able to do stuff like that, but big corporations will have likely done similar things to soften/slow price increases. And, until additional duties go into effect worldwide, lots of companies had already diversified their manufacturing out of China for US-bound products because of the already existing tariffs from Trump’s first term.

But once the companies have to pay the higher price, so will we all.

Damn, I wish I lived under the rock you apparently do.

I considered it when they warned about the increase and offered it at $75, but I just didn’t have the money to spend back then. Felt pretty stupid for not doing it, but I don’t even know what paid features they offer, and I’m clearly not missing them.

99% of my usage is at home as well, so this is unlikely to affect me - until that random 1% anyhow.

Thanks for that - I wasn’t aware of the relay service, but completely agree that this is what they should be charging for and not the remote play feature in its entirety. I’ll probably drag it out for a while by refusing to update the app and server… Might be able to make it work with Tailscale as others have suggested.

In the past I’ve paid for a month or two when I wanted to download to my devices remotely (and I think that’s the singular feature that I’ve ever cared about in the Plex pass). But to take features away and then try and charge me for them is a bridge too far, I can’t support that bad behavior.

But what infrastructure does this feature require? I’m direct connecting to my own personal server with perhaps credential handling and a handshake handled by Plex servers to connect. None of the media is passing through their servers - or it shouldn’t be if it is.

Just block ads while you’re there so you’re a drain on their resources and not lining their pockets further.