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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 1 year ago

Bitwarden Copilot YT Premium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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").
Bitwarden
1 or 2 items I don't remember right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • Protonmail
  • Spotify
  • Kagi search
  • a handful of servers scattered in DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and AWS
  • Sendgrid
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A couple of video streaming services, Hulu, which includes Disney+, Discovery+ and Netflix. That totals up to like $50/mo or so.

Other than that, it's aaaallllll independent creators, through Twitch or Patreon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Google One, Spotify, Netflix and Nebula.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • bitwarden
  • proton VPN
  • purelymail
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • AWS Cloud services
  • Azure devops build services
  • OpenAI API
  • JetBrains Toolbox
  • OneDrive
  • Protonmail
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

just for pia vpn since i don't trust free vpns, also try claude opus instead of chatgpt, it's better imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ProtonMail and Spotify. I'm also paying for one podcast but I do it voluntarily.

Edit: and Mullvad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mythic beasts server hosting, namecheap domain hosting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bitwarden and a domain, if it counts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For me, as an SRE:

  • Mullvad VPN
  • Google Drive (until I set up my NAS)
  • YouTube Premium
  • ChatGPT (but I am thinking of trying out Claude 3 instead)

Other, non-tech subscriptions:

  • Public transport
  • Public bike sharing
  • Food delivery

Things I might pay for if my employer didn't:

  • IntelliJ Ultimate
  • GitHub Copilot

Random IT-adjacent services I occasionally donate to:

  • Codeberg
  • Wikipedia
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Express VPN for foreign free to air TV, ad blocking on multiple devices. 200gb Google Cloud storage. Vultr VPN for Wireguard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

YouTube music only, unfortunately. Unfortunate not because it's the only expense of its type that I have, but because like so many Google products it's a worse version of something they used to offer for free. And there isn't a good alternative that I've found yet, and no music streaming service pays the artists anything worth mentioning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
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