| If you prefer Plex, use Plex. Running your own server, finding good torrents, risk getting emails from your ISP or paying for a VPN service, dealing with networking and making sure the correct port is open and then dealing with the crappy upload bandwidth that most Americans have.... If you prefer keeping everything on a thumb drive or your phone's SD card, do that instead. Most people don't have phones with SD cards and the majority of middle class to upper middle class households in the US have iOS devices... And if my family can do it, I am quite sure your family can too. I think the attitude you're demonstrating here exemplifies a problem with the industry in general these days; giving non-technical people too little credit. There are plenty of people that can cook but that doesn't prevent them from eating out. Convenience beats cheap. None of this stuff is complicated, but when a technical person such as yourself tells a non-technical person that they're incapable of wrapping their mind around something, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy as they're now scared of even trying. And without trying, neither of you will ever learn what their true capabilities are It's not about what people can't do -- it's about what people don't want to do. My wife and I both have cars but when we want to spend a night out and go to downtown from the suburbs we take Uber for the convenience. |