• SupraMario@lemmy.world
      31·
      8 hours ago

      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.

  • iegod@lemmy.zip
    30·
    15 hours ago

    Electricity has been a pretty good subscription. Zero sales or promos ever though.

  • degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io
    111·
    12 hours ago

    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.

  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca
    38·
    17 hours ago

    Email to avoid email providers from companies like Google or Microsoft.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
    151·
    17 hours ago

    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.

    • 87Six@lemmy.zip
      1·
      5 hours ago

      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

    • mittyta@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 hours ago

      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?

      • four@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        12 hours ago

        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.

      • degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io
        3·
        13 hours ago

        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.

  • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
    31·
    11 hours ago

    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.

  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
    161·
    15 hours ago

    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.

    • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
      7·
      16 hours ago

      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.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    51·
    14 hours ago

    Costco, Credit cards (assuming you can get your moneys worth).

    On the nerdier side, Nabu casa, VPS.

    And on the mundane, internet.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    4·
    15 hours ago

    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.

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      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.

      • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
        6·
        14 hours ago

        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.