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.
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 monthly 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 a medley of subscription services… and I have a lot of free time.
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 and save a little bit of money, 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.
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.
Can I up vote this more than once? Quality print journalism is absolutely vital and it will die without the support of its readers.
I find it so frustrating. The hate journalism gets is such a misdirection. This is a vital profession whose business model has been all but destroyed by the internet. The numbers of journalists have been in freefall for decades now. Their pay has never been lower, their jobs never less secure. Their desperate managers are pushing them to stop the bleeding by going for clicks and views. Predictably, they then get abused for being attention whores. Or, worse, part of some institutional conspiracy. And yet without professional journalists, bound by an ethics code, we’re absolutely gonna be lost in a sea of junk and fakery and manipulation. It’s going to be so much worse even than what it is already. And yet this could all be avoided if people were prepared to pay even a fraction of what they fork out to Netflix or Amazon. To be clear, I am not a journalist.
You guys pay for Tv and music subscriptions? Lol
I was very tempted to find some other people and get deezer, to download music, but eventually I didnt
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- Apple One family plan (including iCloud+, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+) of which i essentially use the cloud storage, fitness lessons, music and streaming)
- Youtube Premium because i like to watch ad free on the phone or on the TV app
- a monthly scheduled wire transfer to the admin of my lemmy instance
- a yearly scheduled wire transfer to the admin of my mastodon instance
- a couple of patreon monthly donations
- a dedicated server in a data center to play minecraft with my nephew and do other linux things
None. I whitelist and log all so never ads and exploits have as hard of a time escaping as my bad code and scripts. I only watch science YT, and keep a few playlists on VLC. I choose to go down with the thrash metal through post grunge (millenni)boomer ship before I will ever simp and goon for streaming ads with miserly music seasoning in between. Music artists need a union to pay for their own streaming platform and venue booking services setup as an arts nonprofit while making revenue from performances.
Bitwarden Premium, Standard Notes and Pcloud lifetime. those helps me a lot.
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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Proton mail unlimited - prob gonna drop or downgrade when the sub is up, a couple of domains, mullvad, some patrons, and that’s it. Everything else I self host.
None so far
Might get a vpn if I ever build a nas
Don’t buy it - build it (if it’s within your technical comfort zone). Self hosted VPNs are cheaper and you’re not entrusting your privacy to a third party (as much).
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?😅
The easiest route is to buy a server from someone like digital ocean, set up a VPN daemon, register a cert with it (that’s the hardest technical part) then set up something like openVPN on your client machine and install a matching cert there.
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.
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.
Music streaming doesn’t have regional limits, or at least haven’t ever run into any. On the other hand Netflix, HBO, Disney, etc. have different libraries per country & our country’s lacks, and the movies / TV shows are too fragmented between services. Plus unlimited music on demand on the go makes way more sense than movies / TV shows - which are more of a sit down and take it in experience. It just makes way more sense to download any movie / TV show I want from torrent straight to USB, plug the USB into the TV sit back and watch, no buffering or stuff like that.
For me it’s because I want to listen to any song that comes to mind on demand, even if I haven’t predownloaded it.
I get YouTube Premium and YouTube music free with my Google Fi phone plan, so I don’t know if those count as subscriptions.
I actively subscribe to NordVPN to hide my piracy habits from my ISP.
I pirate pretty much everything else.
