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Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I'll list a few:

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Obsidian Sync
  • YouTube Premium
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
  • YouTube Premium
  • Apple One Family (Music, TV+, iCloud, Arcade)
  • HBO Max (best value for high quality content but Apple is very close these days)
  • Prime (barely use it but it's $12/yr here)
  • Game Pass Ultimate
  • Usenet Farm, couple of odd blocks and indexers
  • Carrot Weather

Considering paying for RSS provider but they all seem overpriced for what they do above Feedly free tier.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
  • YouTube Premium
  • Netflix
  • Torguard VPN
  • Google One for storage

That's about it. I don't use ChatGPT often enough to sub. I sometimes subscribe to Canva Pro if I have a project ongoing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
  • ChatGPT
  • Midjourney
  • YouTube Premium (which I get through a mobile phone subscription at a heavy discount)
  • Spotify
  • Channel4 ad-free (UK broadcaster)

In addition I support a range of software through GitHub and Patreon:

  • PhotoPrism
  • Gluetun
  • Little Navmap
  • wg-easy
  • DuckDNS

Finally I’ve got paid access to a couple of major and minor media sources:

  • Washington Post
  • Jyllands Posten (largest Danish newspaper)
  • Olfi (specialised Danish defense news, named after a Danish frigate Olfert Fisher)
  • Krigskunst (“The Art of War”, specialised Danish defense podcast)
  • Det Hemmeligste at Det Hemmelige (podcast about spy craft and stay behind movements during the Cold War - just gone behind a pay wall but used to run on a public service channel)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Pcloud, NordVPN, Tidal, reMarkable sync

I'd use Obsidian Sync too if I used Obsidian across devices. I just back my vaults up in the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Aside from the VPS and object storage for housing Leminal Space, just Proton Mail. And The Anfield Wrap if we're counting podcasts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)
  • Mullvad
  • 1Password
  • pCloud
  • Kagi
  • Real Debrid
  • YouTube Premium
  • Posteo
  • Deezer
  • Qobus
  • Tidal Hifi

(Yes i listen a lot to music)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
  • Firefox Relay ($1/month)
  • Bitwarden ($22/year, premium + family org)
  • Inoreader ($15/year, Supporter to be ad-free)
  • Joplin (donating 2$/month to the dev)
  • Spotify (Family plan)
  • Netflix (2 screens, HD)
  • Amazon Prime (for faster free shipping and Prime Video)
  • Amazon Kids+ (for the kids Fire HD tablets, they can play almost anything they want)
  • IFTTT Pro+ ($4/month, legacy plan)
  • NextDNS ($28/year) for the convenience of a pihole-like setup without having to host it
  • Google One 2TB for the extra features and storage for my wife's business at home.
  • Cheap-ass VPS on Atlantic.net ($1/month, legacy plan)
  • 2 domain names, around $25/year for both on NameCheap
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Surfshark VPN and YouTube premium. Recently cancelled Netflix and Amazon prime. Not much but I've had enough of subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

1Pass NordVpn ChatGPT YouTube Premium

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Bitwarden

Proton Family

Spotify Family

Nintendo online

1 small Contabo VPS to host rocket chat

1 larger Contabo VPS for my main Nextcloud and Immich instances

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Mullvad and Tuta are the only services I pay for monthly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
  • Bitwarden
  • Addy.io
  • Backblaze B2 (technically not a subscription)
  • Managed Nextcloud (Hetzner)
  • Webhosting (Hetzner)

I'm a student and I don't work that much so I try to keep the costs down. I considered selfhosting Nextcloud but it doesn't seem worth it for now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do I webhost with Hetzner? I want to get into server hosting and Hetzner is a small business with a good price, but the learning curve is so steep.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I give some bucks to disroot for email and cloud services and I donate monthly to a local server that hosts a mastodon instance and some other goodies. I occasionally donate to some software projects

My partner subscribes to media services which I use too, like max, Spotify and others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

spotify, NextDNS, 1password, lifetime pcloud, Microsoft 365 on annual sales, notesnook. I guess I donate to my mastodon/Lemmy instance and immich development.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just a VPS. £4/month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Bitwarden Copilot YT Premium

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