Whole home cleansing. They send a guy out quarterly who assesses each room and blows sage around hot spots. My home isn't very active but I sleep better at night knowing that there aren't dark energies in risk corridors.
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Proton - Mail, VPN, Calendar, Passwords, Notes
PBS - Gotta support public broadcasting.
The Satanic Temple - Helping support women's rights, religious rights, compassion.
Usenet - Cheaper and better content than streaming services
I donate about $5/month to a bunch of nonprofits that I benefit from.
- Debian project
- openbsd project
- wikimedia foundation
- EFF
- Internet Archive
My career wouldn’t exist without these folks, so it’s the least I can do.
At the risk of being crucified, YouTube Premium.
I like having no commercials on something by legitimate means, and unlike most streaming services, the content stays there once it's there. For the hours we use it, it's still a hell of a deal.
I adblock and sail the seas, but Premium gives what it promises without any real hassle. We use it way more than we used Netflix or Disney+.
the content stays there once it's there
my bookmarked/liked videos lists don't agree. A lot of videos, and even a few complete channels have disappeared over time. This is not a new issue.
Premium gives what it promises
well it does not promise to respect you and your privacy
It isn't perfect, and there are a number of reasons content can leave. I know a few of my favorite channels have had issues dealing with content getting pulled due to things like it having certain World War 2 imagery in historical context, or analysis of music theory of modern songs for having too many seconds of copyright music. People can also delete their accounts and things will disappear. Some is also just plain pirated content.
But for how much content there is on YouTube, the vast majority stays there, at least compared to more traditional media. Many things I've been watching lately have been over a decade old. It really helps in repairing older things for finding lessons on things that haven't changed much in recent years.
As for privacy, we're all at least moderately tech savvy people here. We know we're dealing with an advertising company here and what that entails. That doesn't thrill me, but that's the deal to get the content. Google does make at least some data available to view and delete, so that's still a bit better than most places tracking us.
While there is room for improvement, I still feel it beats most everything else legitimate on cost vs what you get.
I got Yt premium as a side effect of the Google one thing. I don't necessarily need the extra space I got the Google one thing for, but I'll probably keep it because I'm too lazy to clear out my storage and the side perks like Yt premium are probably worth more than I'm spending on one.
Same, I have the Family tier and it just makes sense. At 23/month if all 5 slots are filled it works out too $4.60/month/person.
No ads AND no hassle with this and that instance going down or that app being blocked or browser shannigans
Every time I talked myself into it they ended up raising the rate. I've stopped trying to talk myself into it.
Mailbox.org
Real-Debrid+Stremio
Humble bundle
Mullvad VPN
Bring in the downvotes, but Spotify. I listen to music several hours a day, both old and new and it helps me discover lots of new music and even genres. For me personally, that's worth the money.
I feel the same. I like not having commercials in my music and being able to listen to a wide variety.
Also offline mode and list syncing. I would die on long flights if I didn't have music to listen to and my tastes change frequently.
Amazon prime and all the million services that bundle with it.
Protonmail, MullvadVPN
I've been trying to unravel my Google workspace for months now to head toward proton. I've signed up for so many things that use my workspace for auth
I know this is the "wrong answer," but YouTube. I watch it a lot, and mostly on my PS in the evenings. If I only watched it in my phone or PC, I wouldn't bother.
I also pay for Spotify for my mom and I, and ProtonVPN/Mail for myself. Oh, and PS+, which I still think is bullshit. 🙄
It's only a 'wrong answer' because people here downvote on an ideological basis. If it works for you, then it's okay 👍
Dropout.tv
Tons of amazing original content, and very cheap.
I also really like Dropout. I will sub for a few months then put it on pause for a few months, so it's basically half price. The company allegedly treats its staff very well, they produce lots of good shows, very inclusive for queer, disabled, non-white etc people which I love. They also recommend password sharing and stopping your subscription if you can't afford / don't want any more. And all that obviously worked since I'm advertising for free for them 😂
Marine Traffic - I live by the sea.
Proton Mail - trying to give up Gmail.
Bitwarden - had to stop using the same password for everything.
My Row Counter - for knitting, it's a fantastic app.
Amazon Prime; I run a business repairing things. I'm small enough that I can't afford to keep everything in stock for various makes/models. Getting it here quickly allows me to repair more machines faster. There are no places to get the parts I need locally.
- Mullvad
- Addy.io
- A TV EPG provider so i can set my HTPC USB receivers to record stuff each week for the family (1. It details for specific channels new series/new episodes for the week aired between certain times of day which websites dont seem to do 2. Its cheaper & far more efficient than a TV mag/newspaper 3. Its extremely cheap so great value)
- I donate to some open source projects/devs when I find I'm using a product regularly
$20/year for Nintendo Switch Online. That's $20 more than it should be, but at least it's not nearly as expensive as the other consoles.
Surprising this thread is so positive so I'll share mine I've gotten downvoted for before:
Discord Nitro.
I use it a lot as I'm active in a bunch of servers. I don't even pay for the expensive one, just the $3/month one and it's TOTALLY worth being able to make emojis of my cat and annoy people with them, here are my favorited and frequently used emojis:
This is a better ad for Nitro than I've ever seen from Discord haha.
I use nitro for emotes, everything else is just them annoying the fuck out of me.
Ground News because I want to see what's going on in news across the media spectrum and they make it a lot easier.
Discord nitro classic because I don't have a better alternative and I get the features I actually need at half the price I'd pay for the normal subscription.
A VPN because none of your goddamn business.
My VPN.
Then I everything else for free.
Hulu. Best collection of shows for me, right now.
Spotify. I listen to music constantly, it's a necessity.
Libro.fm for audiobooks, and supporting my local book store.
My gym membership (lumping Zwift in there too). I exercise a lot, like 15+ hours per week. These are part of my chosen lifestyle.
Opensnow. The only phone app I pay for. It's a weather app but better if you're a skier/snowboarder.
RuneScape. I love OSRS and I enjoy playing in my downtime. I'm an adult, I can do what I want.
osrs is the best
- Tidal ($5.82/month student), like my HiFi music, even if it's indistinguishable on most of the speakers I use
- Nebula ($2.50/month), mostly the same shit as on YouTube but as-free (without adblock) and usually a bit early access
- PIA (~$2.33/month), avoids a Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV+, Discovery +, Paramount+, you get the gist+ subscription. You had a good thing going but you got greedy and fucked it
- Recurring donation to Lemmy dev ($5/month), despite any of the devs political views, I appreciate the service and continued support of the software and recognize that dev isn't free,though I do need to sit down and set one up for my instance as well as my mastodon & pixelfed instances.
Some of these are yearly but reduced to monthly for ease of viewing
I don't subscribe to much as I try to avoid subscriptions
Bit warden subbed as soon as last pass went to shit Duolingo been studying Spanish every day Crunchyroll anime High-dive anime not on Crunchyroll
- YouTube Premium, because I listen to a ton of music but I also like listening to dorkier deep-dive video channels.
- Disney+ w/ Hulu because I am a raging Marvel fanboy and like to be able to keep up with shows like Simpsons/Family Guy/Bob's Burgers.
- Office 365. This is the most likely to get canceled at some point. I used to need Office for work, but now I mostly use the Notes app and Excel on my phone... and the 1 TB of OneDrive storage isn't as great a deal as it once was.
YouTube premium. Mostly for music but no-ads is nice.
I have the basic iCloud sub but it feels like a scam. I should at least get more storage if I buy more Apple products. If you have two devices your backups get too big for the free storage amount.
I offloaded a bunch of things from iCloud but it becomes a hassle for how cheap their subscription is.
Apple Music. It’s just easier than pirating music. You also get Apple Classical which is awesome as classical music can’t be indexed in the same way as regular music.
- meat delivery service. Organic butcher sends me meat everyweek
Bitwarden.
Annual donation to KDE Foundation.
Donations to a number of my podcast hosts.
Premiumize.
MullvadVPN, Posteo, Bitwarden, Hetzner VPS, Hetzner Storage Box, Porkbun domain
The Atlantic. Because of its magazine heritage, there's the perfect number of new articles per day (5 or 10), all top notch journalism and beautifully written. I look forward to reading a few of them each evening.
A daily newspaper, a monthly computer science paper, internet, electricity, water, gas. That's probably it.