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Your own email domain + an account at a privacy respecting email service is more than worth it. Avoids the privacy nightmare that is using Google/Microsoft for your email, and gives you the flexibility to change email providers on a whim if your current one starts doing anything you don't like.
VPN
And if you want a double whammy, get keepsolid, it's a Ukrainian company. So you're supporting Ukraine and getting a good vpn provider.
Electricity has been a pretty good subscription. Zero sales or promos ever though.
For the amount of work it does heck yeah.
But we also pay 40-50c per KWH so it really stacks up quick.
What? We get sales, like every night.
Library membership
Kagi, next DNS, mullvad
If you're using mullvad, why not also use their DNS? Just curious
Email to avoid email providers from companies like Google or Microsoft.
Whats some good ones?
It's a great deal too! My own domain was 50€ for 10 years, and Purelymail hosting is 10 bucks per year.
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If you like movies, I've been enjoying AMC Stubs A-List, been going to more movies with the gf, screen unseen is fun if you have nothing specific you want to see. And we keep costs down by sneaking food in.
Dropout is one I enjoy and they do profit sharing internally, which is nice to see.
A good VPN that values privacy is a pretty easy answer
Random one, but I get a lot of use out of a boardgamesarena premium membership. I've got a few mates that I can't see IRL as much any more, so it's nice to be able to jump on a video call and play some board games. Only one in the group needs a membership to unlock all the games and it's about £30 for the year. Easily better value than a few hours in a pub
I have other subscriptions I find varying levels of useful for me, but hard to argue for many of them being particularly good value.
Online backup. Because it will happen, eventually.
The worst advice IMHO. You can't cancel that types of subscription anytime, otherwise you lost your data. will you pay for it for the rest of your life? Will your grandchildren pay for it to keep granny's photos?
I think the idea is to use paid online backup as another layer of safety. You still keep your data on your devices, but in case your entire house burns down, you have the online backup.
Online backups should be an absolute last resort in the case of something catastrophic like a house fire, not your only copy of important data. Losing them should just mean a little less redundancy in that regard.
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I'm happy to give Qobuz my money for providing an excellent music library and be the best paying streaming service for the musicians that I listen to.
Costco, Credit cards (assuming you can get your moneys worth).
On the nerdier side, Nabu casa, VPS.
And on the mundane, internet.
Health insurance, if you can afford it
Or, hear me out, tax that goes toward socialised healthcare.
Lmao!
Better healthcare than I’ve ever had for a tiny fraction of the price? You’re insane!
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Kagi is a great search engine that I've found to be worth paying for.
I've been curious about kagi for a while, as I see the topic come up now and then.
Could you describe how it is better (except from the obvious privacy aspect) in your particular use case?
Which plan do you subscribe to?
What is the AI assistant it refers to, and do you use it?
Does it filter out standard slop that has been plaguing (my) search results lately, such as "How to fix (some specific problem with technology ABC): Long description of what technology ABC is, followed by some boilerplate bullet points such as updating drivers and run windows update."
@thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca: Same question to you.
First and foremost it was the slop filtering that sold me on it.
I had a friend suggesting I try it for a while and I resisted. Longtime duck duck go user for primary search.
I tried it using their free trial/free tier for a little while. I liked what I saw so I went month to month on what I think is their pro plan.
I do not use their ai assistant at all, I went in a disabled that some can’t be of help there.
I use their privacy pass now in all my desktop environments: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
I’ve found the results more than good enough - excellent even with all the slop removed.
I use search so much, everyday, I feel like the clean results pay for themselves in time saved in just one day but I was frustrated and annoyed with both slop and the increasing insidious practices of the big ~~search~~ ad-engines.
Hope that helps.
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Judging based on what I'm actually paying for myself I'd say Mullvad VPN, Protonmail and a nameless AI assistant.
Edit: I forgot I've got a website too, so hosting of that is another one.
Mullvad is stellar. I’ve been a user for years and it’s never let me down.
I strongly disagree on proton mail. If you use a custom domain with a catchall it’s absolute trash. Also possibly the worst email search ever. Don’t even get me started on the proton bridge.
I lasted a few months (about 8) and then switched to fastmail. Worlds apart.
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NextDNS.
This way, you can very easily filter out most of the ads on your mobile devices.
If you want to, you can also play this game on hard mode, and start blocking telemetry more aggressively. It can be done, but various apps will stop working. When that happens, you'll unlock a fun new mini game: DNS White List Tuning.
Subscription-based services are in general worth the money, if
- you can cancel the subscription any time
- you use it, because you actually want it
- you know exactly what you get out of it
E.g. it doesn't matter shit how much content on Netflix is terrible, if I use it for one month precisely for that one new show, a new season or a few movies I'm interested - just about anything that makes up an actual reason to starting the subscription.
Internet and/or phone service.
In Canada it's a total racket, but it's still closer to the competitive price than whatever crazy number would make it not worth it.
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