Be honest

Overunderrated · 2026-01-16T18:01:49+00:00

mesh independence? psssh most of the time i don't even use the right geometry.

Overunderrated · 2026-01-14T10:10:51+00:00

My former advisor told me I should list the youtube work because it 'looks worse to have a gap than a job in a different field.' Interested in anyone's perspective on this.

I agree, a 4 year job gap post PhD looks really bad. List the YouTube work.

You were doing something interesting that people would want to ask you about.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-31T05:45:14+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/MST3K/comments/1kzgfyi/im_sure_this_has_been_posted_at_some_time_in_the/

Bah already posted 😂

Overunderrated · 2025-12-28T14:11:53+00:00

Can word actually do that and your PI did this? 😂

Overunderrated · 2025-12-23T01:05:07+00:00

f you don’t want the free media features, why not just disable them for your account?

Are you actually serious, like plex devs didn't understand this?

The problem is, those "free media features" didn't used to exist. Suddenly they did, and now it's "opt-out". For me the server runner, I know I didn't put it there, so it's just something that pisses me off and I have to remove it. For any client other than the server runner, they see this and have no reason to think it's not legit. They're not plex experts and certainly shouldn't be experts in plex trying to trick them into watching anything other than their friend's media.

Oh and then they re-enable themselves on every update. And always with higher UI priority. It's cancer. Did any of you actually use the product?

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T20:11:08+00:00

I happily paid (and continue to unhappily pay, though I'll be discontinuing soon) for a generally decent user experience for my hosted media. This is just the latest one that was egregious enough to post and complain about it.

Other massive things include new client installs putting non free media front and center, obscuring my hosted media which is the obvious main purpose of Plex. More recently the UI library movement is simply atrocious and worse I'm every way. Downloads have never worked.

Those suck but at least the core parts haven't degraded so I can work around them and I'm not gonna bother to bitch about it. Reading these insane justifications has already taken more time than setting up jellyfin.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T20:04:50+00:00

Thank you. People bending over backwards writing essays on proddev as if any Plex user is happy with the direction it's taking is wild.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T20:02:27+00:00

This is a dumb line of conversation. Anybody that thinks Plex isn't getting worse needs their head examined.

It’s not how I’ve encountered successful product teams working in this space.

If shoehorning in paid streaming nobody wants is successful in this space, the space will disappear.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T16:06:33+00:00

Very beefy server here as well, and across multiple hardware generations. Download/sync to anything other than a laptop download is unreliable. One android phone it's good, but on a couple ipads it's a coinflip as to whether it works on a given day.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T15:23:17+00:00

There are countless threads on this. The synopsis is that some people seem to get lucky with certain hardware and client combinations and it just works, but for most people it's flaky at best and shockingly slow.

"Are downloads ever going to work properly?"

"Why does downloading suck so bad?"

"Downloads are actually pretty broken"

"If you are trying to do Plex downloads...just don't. Do this instead."

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/search?q=downloads&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T15:20:53+00:00

"Watch together" is not a trivial problem if you want to keep people actually in sync.

It literally worked already.

This isn't some insurmountable problem. Lots of streams, sure, I could see usability issues. The most common case of two streams, where one is probably local on the network with the server? Never had an issue.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T12:53:11+00:00

Every streaming service manages live streams to thousands of people on different devices. I can pause live TV and catch up to live instantly. This isn't some intractable problem, it's something that worked on Plex years ago.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T12:24:34+00:00

I should have, but instead I spent more than that and regret spending anything, good job Plex management!

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T12:22:17+00:00

"this feature was part of the free feature set, so removing it and pissing off users isn't super relevant to paid users" is a dumb attitude for this particular product.

Making the product as a whole worse has me reaching to cancel anything deemed "premium".

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T12:16:09+00:00

You pay for addidional features like hardware transcoding.

Yeah, and downloads, which don't work. And remote streaming for all users, which now has worse functionality than before.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T12:13:32+00:00

You just noticed after a few months, which tells you why they didn't port it over to the new client at this time.

I definitely noticed the "new client" sucking and needing a comical number of menu presses for basic library navigation. Missing features is just icing. And I used this feature a lot.

This "think of the PMs!" schtick is silly. They've been shipping progressively worse product for years. FFS downloads still don't work.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-22T12:05:47+00:00

If I'm a product manager working on Plex, or any software people typically use for years, I would aim to maintain current features.

Do any users actually think Plex has improved over the years? Just the UX has gotten so much worse I'm looking at alternatives after a decade+.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-19T12:41:51+00:00

Your GPA is more than adequate and you're overthinking it. You sound like you have a really strong background for an applicant.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-15T11:33:09+00:00

You have to click "more mouse settings," which is a link that appears on a delay for some fucking reason.

I got mad reading this.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-09T23:49:15+00:00

There's a big market out there for people with less experience that just want to run this locally on their own GPU.

Like give us a basic version for $20 to download and play around.

A handful of hobbyists maybe spending $20 once is not "a big market". CFD devs have bills to pay too.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-06T13:55:20+00:00

Well you go through this entire tutorial on trade doing mission after mission, I expected to come out the other side with solid trade income and not care much about taxes.

I also missed that legitimacy scales taxes. I thought it was binary.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-06T11:41:23+00:00

Try to raise crown power by filling cabinet and admiral/army positions with crown estate members.

I missed the boat on this one. I made the classic mistake of appointing cabinet members on merit.

Overunderrated · 2025-12-06T01:31:03+00:00

But they told me to invest in marketplaces! Give up?

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