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SEND_NOODLES_PLS ,
  • Protonmail
  • Spotify
  • Kagi search
  • a handful of servers scattered in DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and AWS
  • Sendgrid
Appoxo ,
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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.

Churbleyimyam ,

Just a VPS. £4/month.

CriticalMiss ,

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.

jetsetdorito ,

spotify, NextDNS, 1password, lifetime pcloud, Microsoft 365 on annual sales, notesnook. I guess I donate to my mastodon/Lemmy instance and immich development.

Freuks ,
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Protonmail, tuta, posteo, simplelogin, addy, ivpn, mullvad, windscribe, mega, filen, Trakt

Xianshi ,

Just a vpn

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

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

Quexotic ,

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

UNY0N ,

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.

sirico ,
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Everyone's mum's only fans for online gaming

AFC1886VCC ,

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.

Bruhh ,

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

jetsetdorito ,

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

thorbot ,

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

sugar_in_your_tea ,

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).

thorbot ,

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.

ahal ,

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.

thorbot ,

Ah perfect! Thanks for the additional info

sugar_in_your_tea ,

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.

Telodzrum ,

CGNAT should be illegal.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

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

Jyek ,

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...

thorbot ,

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.

Jyek ,

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.

thorbot ,

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

SuperSpruce , (edited )
  1. Nebula, to support YT creators while spiting YT
  2. A Domain name provider for my web domain

That's it. I don't quite avoid subscriptions like the plague anymore, but I still almost never pay for them.

CaptPretentious ,

Bitwarden
Copilot
YT Premium

micke , (edited )
  • Mullvad
  • 1Password
  • pCloud
  • Kagi
  • Real Debrid
  • YouTube Premium
  • Posteo
  • Deezer
  • Qobus
  • Tidal Hifi

(Yes i listen a lot to music)

Churbleyimyam ,

How come several music services? Are some artists not on all of them?

micke ,

That's right, but it's also about where I use them. Tidal and Qobuz on my (expensive) system because they got best sound quality. For my iem:s I use Deezer, I like the app and the "flow". I guess it's overkill but it's my hobby.

Churbleyimyam ,

That's cool. Until now I've been using Qobuz for HD track downloads but will check Tidal next time they're missing something.

micke ,

Yes, but know that Tidal doesn't sell for download.

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