Technology

A couple of video streaming services, Hulu, which includes Disney+, Discovery+ and Netflix. That totals up to like $50/mo or so.

Other than that, it's aaaallllll independent creators, through Twitch or Patreon.

Also a dev.

• Protonmail
• YT premium
• Hetzner VPS (€20/m)
• Cloudflare domains

For me, as an SRE:

• Mullvad VPN
• Google Drive (until I set up my NAS)
• YouTube Premium
• ChatGPT (but I am thinking of trying out Claude 3 instead)

Other, non-tech subscriptions:

• Public transport
• Public bike sharing
• Food delivery

Things I might pay for if my employer didn't:

• IntelliJ Ultimate
• GitHub Copilot

Random IT-adjacent services I occasionally donate to:

• Codeberg
• Wikipedia

ProtonMail and Spotify. I'm also paying for one podcast but I do it voluntarily.

Edit: and Mullvad

Mythic beasts server hosting, namecheap domain hosting.

• AWS Cloud services
• Azure devops build services
• OpenAI API
• JetBrains Toolbox
• OneDrive
• Protonmail

Express VPN for foreign free to air TV, ad blocking on multiple devices. 200gb Google Cloud storage. Vultr VPN for Wireguard.

Bitwarden and a domain, if it counts.

• bitwarden
• proton VPN
• purelymail

I'm a software engineer as well, but (almost) none of my subscriptions are related to that. Currently:

• Netflix
• Disney+ bundle
• Bitwarden (yearly)
• DNS names (yearly) - currently unused because I bailed on Vultr due to TOS BS; this is for personal projects
• Tiller (yearly) - pulls transactions from my various accounts

That's about it. Everything else I buy one at a time, like video games or donations.

I'd like to drop Netflix and Disney+ over their stupid ad policy, but my wife and kids use them a lot.

Here's some stuff I plan to get soon:

• VPN - probably Mullvad
• Tuta - finally axe Google
• VPS - probably Hetzner; I'd prefer one without forced arbitration though; could get by if something like Tailscale allowed custom domains and port forwards
• Backblaze B2 - backups

Just a vpn

just for pia vpn since i don't trust free vpns, also try claude opus instead of chatgpt, it's better imo.

Seedbox (+included vpn)
Usenet
YT Prem
Spotify
Ionos Mail
O365 (but I bought vouchers for 3 years at a reduced price)
-> I prefer Outlook over Thunderbird. Though with the new interface they had done I will probably migrate to it once it expires. The OneDrive storage is used for Obsidian.md. I store obsidian locally but sync it with the community plugin "remotely save").
Bitwarden
1 or 2 items I don't remember right now.

• Protonmail
• Spotify
• Kagi search
• a handful of servers scattered in DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and AWS
• Sendgrid

• ChatGPT
• YouTube Premium
• DoorDash
• ProtonMail
• Google (storage)
• Apple (storage)
• MLB (game audio)
• GitHub Premium
• Various Twitch Streamers
• Dropout
• Apple Music

I think that’s it. I would subscribe to Port87, but I made it, so I don’t need to.

I understand that that’s a lot of subscriptions. I used to have a lot more, and I’ve been slowly unsubscribing.

I’ve almost replaced ProtonMail with Port87, so that will be the next to go. I like ProtonMail, but I only subscribed so that I could do the things Port87 does automatically. I’ll still subscribe to Proton VPN though. I need that for… Linux ISOs.

I’ve also almost replaced Google Photos with Immich, so that will go soon too.

I’m thinking about replacing Apple Music with a self hosted option.

I also am finding ChatGPT less and less useful as open source LLMs get closer in quality.

YouTube music only, unfortunately. Unfortunate not because it's the only expense of its type that I have, but because like so many Google products it's a worse version of something they used to offer for free. And there isn't a good alternative that I've found yet, and no music streaming service pays the artists anything worth mentioning.

Too many but here’s a few off the top of my head:

• GitHub Pro and Copilot
• ChatGPT
• Linode (I self-host a lot of things but keep Nextcloud off-site for backups)
• YouTube Premium and Nebula
• RadarScope, Windy, and NightSky (astronomy hobby plus I live in NOLA so good weather apps are kind of a must have)
• Feedly
• Bitwarden
• TripIt
• Apple Music

There’s more but as a developer, I try to pay for software. (I mean, if I don’t, who will?) I’ll sail the high seas for some stuff but only if the company pisses me off.