What online subscriptions do you have?
I have Spotify Premium Duo for son & I, Youtube Premium Family (I pay for son and I & got 4 of my friends to join so we split the cost), Voxa - audiobooks for son, NovelAI for son (some story writing tool I guess, to be honest I don’t really know what this one does exactly). No movie / TV show streaming services cause I have Filelist (torrents) and the world wide web.
For me, personally, I appreciate Spotify because it has pretty solid out of the box functionality where my preferences and locally downloaded songs easily sync between different devices, I can control output on one device from another (I have an old computer running Spotify hooked up to my house speakers and just control what’s playing from my phone, laptop, work laptop or gaming machine), and my constantly shifting music tastes can be satiated.
I absolutely understand those that eschew it on ethical grounds and the free tier is, indeed, hot fucking garbage.
I’m trying to avoid most subscriptions. So I rent a small VServer and a VPS and run a little Proxmox server in my home. That is around 13€/month, including electricity for the Proxmox server. I could combine them, but currently I avoid the hassle of doing that.
But that gives me E-Mail, Nextcloud, offsite backup, a website, HomeAutomatization with HomeAssistant, a PlexServer to stream music and movies, paperless and more. So: Say no to expensive subscriptions, do it yourself.
Proton Unlimited, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hetzner Storage Box, Cloudflare Domain, Kagi, two Patreons, Spotify Family (but my mom pays for that)
I think that was all.
None so far
Might get a vpn if I ever build a nas
Ok that’s interesting, how can I build it? Cuz it sounds hard and possibly more expensive.😅
I suppose I have to somehow rent a server or rent physical rooms across my continent to put my servers (and buy internet connection for each location) to maintain a network. Plus set up the network. Isnt that too complicated? Is there any easier solution?😅
OpenVPN runs just fine with self signed certs. No need to pay for anyone for that. Easy-RSA package even has nice scripts for you to run. Obviously that becomes a chore pretty fast if you need more than a handful of clients, but maintaining those for yourself and your spouse and kids it’s easy enough.
And, assuming you have public IPV4 address on your internet connection, you can use dyndns service and run all of that on a raspberry pi (or almost whatever you happen to choose). OpenVPN with mobile devices is a bit more challenging, but you can run OpenSwan for IPSEC or some other daemon as well, which might work better for your use case.
Humble Monthly. And… Uh… That’s the only one.
Used to have a few more, but I cut them all down. The only one really worth it is Humble.
None.
I don't need anything they're selling.
Yep, same here.
If there were any subscription I would get, it would be a VPN, to allow me access to basically all content for about the same cost as any single subscription service.
Sure, it might take some more effort in terms of tinkering to get exactly the same functionality and ease of use, but uh I’m disabled and on a fixed income, I literally cannot afford to be spending something like half my monthly food budget on subscription services… and I have a lot of free time.
I know the last one isn’t online, but these are my monthly recurring payments.
Subscriptions? In this economy?
Better save up for the global shitshow with tarrif, especially if you are a resident of the US, China, Mexico, Canada, or any country that trades with the US basically. Any major country going to shit is gonna have a ripple effect throughout the entire world.
May I offer y’all some treasure at [email protected] in these trying times?
(Maybe if the economy was kinder and we get paid more, we wouldn’t have to #YaRRR 🏴☠️ stuff. Copying =/= theft)
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Much like performative bullshit around avocado toast - if there are reasonable things you want to subscribe to then go ahead and enjoy them. The fifty bucks you’d save by canceling your subscriptions before Tariffs hit us isn’t going to make a difference. We’re going to be thoroughly fucked either way.
If shows or music give you joy then “treat yo self”.
Oh sorry I was just joking around, wasn’t that serious. Just wanted an excuse to share one of my favorite communities, mmkay? 😉
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Oh no worries, my response wasn’t meant in a negative way either (I just swear like a fucking sailor). I’ve seen coworkers hold off on living life until retirement and then end up unable to actually do anything.
As long as you’re not burning money I’d encourage everyone to make sure to enjoy life in moderation constantly.
Enjoy your high seas m’hearty.
Spotify, Dropout, Crunchyroll, and some patreons.
Anyone without Dropout should really check it out!
I used to pay for a lot (music, video,…). That’s gone.
I still have a cloud storage (Filen), iCloud+ (mostly, for the Hide my email module at 1$/m), a VPN (Mullvad), an encrypted email (Proton Mail+).
I donate to a few charities and ONG, I also support a few Libre software but not on a monthly-basis.
I still have a running yearly-sub to Apple Music that I don’t think I will renew
No streaming anymore (I used to, but we have so many DVDs already… and we’re not tracked when watching them, they also can’t be removed from my library (because they aren’t successful enough, or because they offend someone somewhere on the planet). They’re mine, I own them. No game pass (I don’t game much, and only that old game called chess). No magazines and almost no news outlets (clickbait titles aren’t worth my time, so no money for them).
I used to pay for YT Premium which I watched a lot. I cancelled when Google started its open war against ad-blockers. Even as a paying user of YT, I considered their attitude way too hostile towards ad-blocking and also too dangerous: I’m an uBO user which I consider the most essential extension to make the web usable like it used to be before marketing and ads took over, the entire web not just YT. So, Google seriously trying to fight it was not something I was that happy with. That and their push for Manifest V3, even though I don’t use Chrome, I decided I would not give them a cent more of my money. Oh, I also reduced my YT viewing time by a lot… which is kinda neat ;)
I borrow most my (e)books for free, from the public library.
The only one sub I do miss dearly is… Kagi, the paid search engine. It’s what Google used to be in the 90s: better (as opposite to the absolute worthless piece of trash it has morphed into, nowadays) and so refreshing compared to the others. There is not a day I don’t miss some of its features, useful results and/or its great filtering tools. I will probably end-up subscribing again, but I try my best to resist ;)
Sling for live TV and Max for John Oliver, that’s pretty much it. Oh, and a Disney+ gift subscription for my sister. Comcast gave me a free subscription to Peacock, but frankly I never watched it and I’m not on Comcast anymore so I don’t know if it’s still active or not.
My WIFE might have a problem though… She does Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, AppleTV, Spotify, I think there might be others I’m not aware of.
I’m curious why you pirate movies but not music. Seems an odd line to draw?
Ironically enough I do the reverse. I pay for Netflix and pirate music. My reasoning is there are some Netflix programs that are hard to find on the high seas. (Asian films) If they were easy to pirate I would not pay a cent.
I have a hetzner server where I host a bunch of services like CalDAV, mastodon, piefed, my rails website TT-RSS, firefox-sync, some PHP websites and some static websites, PeerTube.
And on top of it I subscribe to a object storage at Vultr.
Right now The Atlantic, plus a national online newspaper here in Europe. Nothing else.
PSA: if you value your personal freedoms, then you need to at least consider paying for journalism. Democracy cannot survive without an independent media.
Nothing. I’ll occasionally take the free month of YouTube or Pandora, then immediately cancel it. Password sharing gets me Amazon Prime video, I think that will run out eventually and I don’t watch much of what’s on there anyway.
Other than that, the local library has DVDs of most movies and they loan them out for free, so with a DVD player I’m good to go for whenever I want to watch something.
I have monthly recurring donations to several charities, I guess you could count those as subscriptions of a sort:
Subscription to rainforests: Coalition for Rainforest Nations (the operate globally with indigenous and local communities to do everything possible to protect rainforests and reforest areas)
Independent journalism subscription: ProPublica (no paywall investigative news organization that has really hard hitting reporting that holds corporations accountable)
Subscription to science-based political advocacy: Union of Concerned Scientists
Subscription to open information: Wikipedia
Subscriptions to a healthy community: Local food bank, urban green space advocates, and housing support orgs
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