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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] 1 points 7 months ago
  • Protonmail
  • Spotify
  • Kagi search
  • a handful of servers scattered in DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and AWS
  • Sendgrid
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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").
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just a VPS. £4/month.

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

Only a 3.50€ VPS on OVH. Gets the job done. For music I just use firehawk52’s Deezer ARLs to download the music. For TV shows/movies the obvious is piracy. The whole subscription model drives me away from services.

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

Spotify? Does that count? Literally the only thing I subscribe to for money.

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

100% it does. The right music makes the difference between a productive day and a total waste.

[–] [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] 9 points 7 months ago

Everyone's mum's only fans for online gaming

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mullvad, ProtonDrive, and my mobile data plan if that counts.

I stopped subscribing to Google drive, but truthfully I miss Google photos a lot because of how good it is, privacy aside.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ente Photos is a pretty decent alternative if you don't want to self host

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

I would so use Ente if I didn't self host immich

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Literally nothing. All self hosted if I need it. Fuck subscription fees

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

Do you off-site backup as well? I don't have the kind of money necessary to self host an on network and an off-site backup of my data...

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

I used wasabi BackUp service years ago, it was about $50 a month for my 7 TB, and it took over a month to upload the initial back up. Now, I have about five times that much storage used up and there’s no way I would pay $250 a month for that. All stuff I’ve downloaded from Torrents, so if something bad happened I could get it back again. I save all my torrent files so I could re-download them fairly easily. I also run a raid 6 configuration so I can tolerate up to two drives failing before I lose data.

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

RAID is not a backup, NAS is not a backup. Obviously there is no reason to backup readily available torrents but it doesn't sound like you're backing up at all. Self hosting data integrity is a much harder task than implied.

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

It’s enough data redundancy for me. Did I state it was a discrete backup? No, but it’s not needed.

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

Do you have any decent options for routing a DNS name to a local machine behind NAT? I usually do this with a VPS, but I really don't like the terms at a lot of VPS services (forced arbitration everywhere).

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

I paid namecheap for a domain, it was $50 for 8 years. So I guess I lied, I did pay for that ages ago. Then, I use my UniFi Dream Machine firewall to route traffic to my Plex and game servers within my network. It’s great because I have Minecraft.mydomain.com, files.mydomain.com and palworld.mydomain.com that people use to access things. Do note that this requires a static IP from your ISP unless you want to get a dynamic dns service running which isn’t too bad.

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

Yeah, I don't have access to dynamic DNS because I'm behind a NAT (ISP gives me a 10.x.x.x address). I can pay for a static IP, but I'd really rather not.

I was hoping there was something like Tailscale where I could forward ports over a VPN and use the VPN host's IP for my DNS. I can kinda get there with Tailscale's public DNS, but I can't use my own (well, I could use a CNAME, but I'd use their certs).

Anyway, it's a temporary thing since I should be getting a new municipal fiber connection soon.

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

Yeah, I can set up a VPN pretty easily, it's just annoying that I need to do it.

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

Namecheap supports ddns out of the box too, no additional service required. You just need a cron job that calls their API to update your IP periodically.

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

Ah perfect! Thanks for the additional info

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