Outstanding journalism from four independently-minded journalists doing their own thing.
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My own domain name, on which I host a whole array of services (such as this Lemmy server). Bitwarden is also cool, I pay for it even tho I self host it to support development. But even if one doesn’t self host, it’s still worth it. Only 10€ per year for such an epic service. A VPS at Hetzner is definetly worth it. A relatively cheap service for all the stuff you can do on it.
So far I have yet to have many problems with the cheapest ProtonVPN plan, which I think it roughly $9.99USD a month. Their Linux application is nowhere near as nice looking as the winblows application, but at least it works.
Monthly Donation to Lemmy Dev or to your favorite FOSS dev.
You know why!
People not coprotations.
In other words, things like Patreon or FOSS projects, where you subscribe to a “person/small group” to support whatever they do.
Deutschlandticket JugendBW. It’s the Deutschlandticket for students in bw for 1€ a day. It is a single ticket for every public transportation (bus, tram, train, …) expect the long-distance trains.
That’s a good deal!
PBS, specifically the Passport that you can get through your local PBS. You get tons of content and you support public broadcasting
public library
here the subscription fee for one year is about as expensive as a single book.
Volumio - Multiroom audio service. You install the os on a pi and hook up some speakers. The basic streamer is free for local files on a single device at a time. I paid $200 for a lifetime pass a few years ago. That gets you multiroom synced audio like Sonos and lets you add in streaming services.
Qobuz - Music streaming service. Much higher quality than Spotify, no shitty MQA like Tidal. They will have articles diving into a genre, band or record label with links to notable albums. It’s “station” playlists and similar artist recommendations are garbage but I’m more of an album person.
Never heard of Qobuz. Been looking to replace yt music. Their algorithm is trash.
Fyi, Tidal dropped MQA in July and moved to using FLAC. https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/06/tidal-officially-dumps-mqa/ I like Qobuz too, and I support and encourage their mission in the streaming world. But personally I find more of my favourite artists are available on Tidal than on Qobuz. Unfortunately I find the tidal “station”-style playlists are also garbage. Nobody has a chance to effectively compete with Spotify’s algorithm on that front.
I like Qobuz, but it’s worth noting Tidal has discontinued their usage of MQA in favour of FLAC across the board.
I’ve never heard of Qobuz before but just signed up for the 30 day trial. Thank you!
- A privacy-respecting mail service: I use mailbox.org since it follows email standards, but I think many ppl like Proton mail/Tutanota. Recommend because they are privacy-respecting, and self-hosting email is way too difficult
- More of a yearly subscription per-se, but a personal domain from any domain registrar. Recommend because why not? There are so many cool things one can do with a domain: custom email, your own blog, professional website for job, …
- A VPS from Linode (or any reliable provider). Recommend because some things are better done on a VPS… and I want a public-facing IP that is not directly from my bedroom
- I used to have subscriptions to the local arcade. Recommend because I basically get cardio workout on the DDR machine (and it costs less than a gym. And easier to cancel)
Protonmail is great, it comes with cloud storage, a really good password manager, and a very fast VPN. The linux experience is mid for their apps, but great on MacOS or Windows.
Having my Nextcloud instance for file storage, podcast, syncing my phone and photos, etc.
Tidal for music is 10x better than Spotify if you need music streaming. Otherwise buy albums on bandcamp.
Been listening to digitally imported since the winamp days! Never subscribed though. Good stuff!
Yeah, they’ve been around for ages and are still excellent. I’m also very glad they still support actual audio streams and don’t require some stupid app.
(No affiliation just a happy customer.)
I use the app haha I play it in my car during my commute.
Ha, you do you… But I’m glad they have alternative means to enjoy the streams.
Proton Mail. High quality mail service where they don’t mine your emails for data to sell. It’s like 4-5 bucks a month depending on how you pay and it’s been worth every penny.
They are always giving you goodies as a bonus for being a subscriber. I second the proton subscription
Just tried free version of Pycharm and definitely going to pay for it.
I have been paying jet brains for years for pycharm and will continue to for maybe forever.
Nebula. It’s a video streaming service that is ad free and directly supports the creators.
It’s crazy that we live in a time where you have to add to your answer that it is ad free
I also have a Nebula subscription and recommend it as well. $60/yr or a $300 lifetime subscription.
Frequently you can get discount codes from the creators on there. I think I paid $20 this year.
Yeah I paid $30. Totally worth it.
As a fan of Jet Lag and the crew, it pains me how expensive it is outside the US.