Until I unplug the headphones to use an AUX port in my car. Or switch between my in-ears and over-ears. Headphones jacks are tiny and useful, and they should be included.
Needing a dongle to plug headphones into your phone is the kinda shit Apple wants people to think is normal, but is actually insane.
That’s just more shit to carry. I don’t want to have pockets overflowing with dongles.
I’m holding out for a 2027 Moto G.
The board sizes remained pretty much the same though, a pi 5 can fit in lots of 3b project without huge changes.
I think moving away from the standard board size would kinda defeat the purpose. All the projects designed to fit the Pi formfactor would be useless. They’d have to design a whole new line, and have none of the ecosystem they’ve built to support it.
The parts SBCs use have been hit the hardest in terms of price increases. And mini PCs aren’t a good replacement for the Pi in embedded applications.
The real power of the Pi 5 is as is a testbed that can easily convert to the CM5.
For people using them as small computers they make no real sense though
Glad I bought several when they were <$100
Well, initially I made a comment saying I was surprised, because I am continuously surprised by it, very simple. And then I continued to comment in response to others who were responding to me.
I never meant to put anyone down, and I’ve reread all my comments and I do not see how any of comments were putting people down? (except perhaps for Plex corporate, but I don’t care how companies feel)
In that case, unless you’re willing to plug some excessively shady AliExpress hardware into your system, I’d say something like a comet, JetKVM, or PiKVM is your best bet, and all those will set you back around $100.
Me too, I guess daring to offend the great Plex gods gets on peoples nerves.
Does it need to be a hardware KVM? or could you use RDP?
I’m going to shill any particular media server, I’m sure you’re perfectly capable of comparing and selecting on your own, nor an I trying to suggest that any will have the same feature set or all the features you wish for out of the box. I’m only expressing surprise that people, particularly people in the homelabbing/self-hosting community, are still using a product like Plex
I didn’t mention Jellyfin, there are other options that just the two ya know? My amazement comes from the fact that Plex, as a corporation, has consistently shown that they hate their own customers. I am equally surprised when I see people still use products by Microsoft, Google, META, Etc, however Plex is particularly perplexing (pun intended), as their core users are not the “general public” but rather a slightly more technically minded subset that should be more adept at seeing the better alternatives.
Call it smugness if you wish though
Yeah, the lack of streaming proxy seems to be the only real killer feature that Plex has.
Tools like Netbird makes setting that up so easy though, it’s not nearly as painful as older tools like Tailscale and ZeroTier. Even my mom was able to set it up on her devices.
I’ve been on Jellyfin for several years and have never had it fail to identify anything, but then again most of my media is fairly typical/pedestrian, so maybe if you have some more niche media.
I’m always amazed to see there are people still using Plex.
As its a first gen product from a pretty green hardware company, it wasn’t super surprising to me they had serious issues. The real test will be to see if the second generation fixes those issues without adding a bunch more.
I haven’t had that issue fortunately, I use mine to watch video all the time and have had no synchronization issues. Maybe later batches updated the BT modem?
Except for when I switch my headphones to another device that uses the 3.5mm, or if I switch from in-ear to over-ear, if if I want to plug my phone into my stereo. In all those cases I have to move the dongle around.
You shouldn’t need dongles to use headphones. There is no rational reason a phone can’t have a headphone jack, it’s just Apples insanity spreading to the rest of the phone manufacturers.