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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I don't like subscribing to nonphysical things. I can read a physical paper a month after it arrived. Digital is faster, but I tend to lose it before I have read it.

I need a recipient in my pocket. Too often my virtual thing is lost, my device fails, or things reboot and I don't have my secure 24 digit password with me.

I won't subscribe to a digital only anything. Physical and digital is nice.

Edit: They don't even have to be identical. A digital daily with a monthly print would be nice.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For me it's mostly the opposite. I really like my things digital, not physical. I already live in the 4th country in my life. I can't move any physical things with me, but if it's digital it needs almost no space. I printed photos as photo books because I thought it's much easier to access. Now all of them are still in Sweden and my friend who has my stuff in her attic is asking me to get my stuff because she is moving and doesn't want to deal with my stuff. But because I'm in South Korea, I can't get them. It's way to expensive to move it. But I don't want to throw them away, but probably will need to.

I have all those pictures in digital form and do access them far more often than I'd think. I wrote scripts which show random old pictures on the TV and post a "today X years ago" picture to different family chats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I wrote scripts which show random old pictures on the TV and post a "today X years ago" picture to different family chats.

Nice

Otherwise…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh but I agree to your sentiment of subscriptions. the only subscription I have is a Server at Hetzner. I hosted my stuff from home before but with all the constant moving it's very complicated. So it's worth to me to pay the 20 EUR a month for hosting a VPS. Another subscription is access to the internet and rent. But other than that I don't have anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That is a great idea!