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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spotify, NextDNS, 1password, lifetime pcloud, Microsoft 365 on annual sales, notesnook. I guess I donate to my mastodon/Lemmy instance and immich development.
ProtonMail, with my own domain, so that I have full control over my online identity and Spotify. As a developer I don’t need anything else, I can work just fine with freely available stuff.
I have ProtonMail, but I’m pretty new to it. I do pay for premium (unlimited). How does the domain thing work with them? They actually host the email for the domain via MX records?
Not the OP, but if youve got your own domain, you can register it with Proton so that you can create email addresses on it that route to your Proton inbox.
How it’ll work is:
- Proton will ask you to verify you own the domain (by adding a few TXT records on it)
- then Proton will give you some MX records you can add to your domain so that mail routes to Proton using your domain.
Ah ok, thank you!
I used to, but I don’t these days because the prices kept going up while the value kept going down. My last subscription was Pandora and Paramount+, but I wasn’t using it enough to justify the continued cost.
I also hate ads on a paid service, that shouldn’t be a thing. If there are ads, it should be free like Pluto.tv, Tubi, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
Just a VPS. £4/month.
- 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.
What does a hosted RSS provider give you over a normal client? I use Nextcloud News (self hosted) but I don’t really know the benefit over just using an RSS app on my phone (besides syncing my list I guess).
Sync across devices at free tier which is the main thing. You pay by having access to things like real-time updates, filters, summaries etc. I don’t keep a vps these days and I have a preferred client that’s limited to commercial solutions.
- Proton
- Bitwarden
- VPN
- Spotify
All I need as a student. I have a few open source projects that I aim to support monthly, as soon as I get my first paycheck after I’m finished with my degree, might count those as subscriptions then.
None.
At the moment none, I don’t find any of it worth the money. I’m more of; that’s a good thing to pirate.
Many companies who sell content legally deliberately mislead. You must beware of it. There is ample free libre content to use, music, games, books, etc. Legally free.
Many companies who sell content legally deliberately mislead. You must beware of it. There is ample free libre content to use, music, games, books, etc. Legally free.
Mullvad and Tuta are the only services I pay for monthly
…none. I donate to foss projects monthly though so it’s a subscription in spirit but it’s not really classified as a subscription
Can you list a few of them?
Off the top of my head: Lemmy, Lemmee, Signal, Molly, and Jellyfin
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
My financial /spending data has a price
I contribute $5 a month to Metafilter, and I use a paid VPN.
- AWS Cloud services
- Azure devops build services
- OpenAI API
- JetBrains Toolbox
- OneDrive
- Protonmail
Mullvad, Bitwarden, Tuta, Signal.
