Technology

• YouTube Premium
• Apple One Family (Music, TV+, iCloud, Arcade)
• HBO Max (best value for high quality content but Apple is very close these days)
• Prime (barely use it but it's $12/yr here)
• Game Pass Ultimate
• Usenet Farm, couple of odd blocks and indexers
• Carrot Weather

Considering paying for RSS provider but they all seem overpriced for what they do above Feedly free tier.

Aside from the VPS and object storage for housing Leminal Space, just Proton Mail. And The Anfield Wrap if we're counting podcasts.

• YouTube Premium
• Netflix
• Torguard VPN
• Google One for storage

That's about it. I don't use ChatGPT often enough to sub. I sometimes subscribe to Canva Pro if I have a project ongoing.

• email
• Nebula
• Kagi
• domains and VPSes
• VPN
• windyty

Spotify but only because we are all sharing a family plan and the price makes sense at that point for the convenience.

As soon as Spotify gets rid of family plans and account sharing (just like all other streaming platforms) I’ll sail the seas with Lidarr.

My financial /spending data has a price

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.

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.

• Firefox Relay ($1/month)
• Bitwarden ($22/year, premium + family org)
• Inoreader ($15/year, Supporter to be ad-free)
• Joplin (donating 2$/month to the dev)
• Spotify (Family plan)
• Netflix (2 screens, HD)
• Amazon Prime (for faster free shipping and Prime Video)
• Amazon Kids+ (for the kids Fire HD tablets, they can play almost anything they want)
• IFTTT Pro+ ($4/month, legacy plan)
• NextDNS ($28/year) for the convenience of a pihole-like setup without having to host it
• Google One 2TB for the extra features and storage for my wife's business at home.
• Cheap-ass VPS on Atlantic.net ($1/month, legacy plan)
• 2 domain names, around $25/year for both on NameCheap

For me, as an SRE:

• Mullvad VPN
• Google Drive (until I set up my NAS)
• YouTube Premium
• ChatGPT (but I am thinking of trying out Claude 3 instead)

Other, non-tech subscriptions:

• Public transport
• Public bike sharing
• Food delivery

Things I might pay for if my employer didn't:

• IntelliJ Ultimate
• GitHub Copilot

Random IT-adjacent services I occasionally donate to:

• Codeberg
• Wikipedia

Bitwarden

Proton Family

Spotify Family

Nintendo online

1 small Contabo VPS to host rocket chat

1 larger Contabo VPS for my main Nextcloud and Immich instances

Mullvad and Tuta are the only services I pay for monthly

Surfshark VPN and YouTube premium. Recently cancelled Netflix and Amazon prime. Not much but I've had enough of subscriptions.

1Pass NordVpn ChatGPT YouTube Premium

• Bitwarden
• Addy.io
• Backblaze B2 (technically not a subscription)
• Managed Nextcloud (Hetzner)
• Webhosting (Hetzner)

I'm a student and I don't work that much so I try to keep the costs down. I considered selfhosting Nextcloud but it doesn't seem worth it for now.

I give some bucks to disroot for email and cloud services and I donate monthly to a local server that hosts a mastodon instance and some other goodies. I occasionally donate to some software projects

My partner subscribes to media services which I use too, like max, Spotify and others.

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

Just a VPS. £4/month.

ProtonMail and Spotify. I'm also paying for one podcast but I do it voluntarily.

Edit: and Mullvad