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It’s a great deal too! My own domain was 50€ for 10 years, and Purelymail hosting is 10 bucks per year.
Whats some good ones?
Electricity has been a pretty good subscription. Zero sales or promos ever though.
What? We get sales, like every night.
Not everywhere has variable electricity pricing like that. Actually I’d guess it’s still uncommon.
It was an expensive service, so we started to self host. It’s been pretty good since then.
For the amount of work it does heck yeah.
But we also pay 40-50c per KWH so it really stacks up quick.
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.
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.
Their recommendations are from notable people in that genre too, properly curated recommendations and playlists.
They also have a strong AI charter that AI generated music must be labeled as such, similar to how Steam works. Hopefully soon you will be able to filter it out if you want to from searches.
I switched from you-know-who to Tidal and while I appreciate the sound quality the UI kinda sticks. How are you finding Qobuz?
I made the same journey. Used Tidal 1-2 years but never felt quite comfortable with it. The one that shall not be mentioned have got a lot in the UI right.
I’m still quite new to Qobuz but I like it much better. Their recommendations are much better, the search is much better, more info about fringe artists and sometimes albums too. Some bands/artists with the same name have confused albums but it’s expected and okay I think.
Over all I’d say that Tidal is a great streaming service but Qobuz has music nerd appeal that reminds me of walking into my favourite record stores and chatting about new releases and recommendations from somebody that actually cares.
Getting back to you question, I see room for improvement but I’m much more comfy with Qobuz than I ever was with Tidal.
I might give Q a try in that case, thanks
I must choose community over convenience, I must choose community over convenience, I must…
I think Qobuz feels much more premium than the two others. And at least for me, Qobuz Connect works like what I was missing from Sp_tify Connect when using Tidal.
I switched from you-know-who to Tidal and while I appreciate the sound quality the UI kinda sticks. How are you finding Qobuz?
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.
I’m curious, since you’re already on Protonmail, why not use their VPN too?
Maybe too many eggs in one basket
Yeah, that would be the reason I wouldn’t switch now but it’s not why I didn’t go with ProtonVPN in the first place.
For no particular reason really. I don’t think Proton was offering a VPN service when I switched to their email so I used few different ones and eventually landed on Mullvad and have just stuck with it since.
Fair enough, thanks for the response
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.
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
searchad-engines.Hope that helps.
I didn’t want this to be true, but I’m a happy paying customer as of a few weeks ago.
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.
I manually backup weekly to a hard drive i wire up with a external HDD reader thing. Most jank BS i’ve ever done but it was practically 0 cost and it takes me only a few minutes to backup my whole system with FreeFileSync.
NAS would be next
Costco, Credit cards (assuming you can get your moneys worth).
On the nerdier side, Nabu casa, VPS.
And on the mundane, internet.
Mullvad, and a strong internet connection from the spyware company of your choice. With that you can pirate any media, and browse the internet. I have never needed more.
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.
The only thing I pay a monthly subscription for is domain/web hosting and medication
Yeah…my meds for sure.
Internet, the shit show is 24/7 no need to pay more for anything.
Kagi, next DNS, mullvad
