Technology

Also a dev.

• Protonmail
• YT premium
• Hetzner VPS (€20/m)
• Cloudflare domains

just for pia vpn since i don't trust free vpns, also try claude opus instead of chatgpt, it's better imo.

Bitwarden and a domain, if it counts.

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

Edit: and Mullvad

Mythic beasts server hosting, namecheap domain hosting.

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

YouTube music only, unfortunately. Unfortunate not because it's the only expense of its type that I have, but because like so many Google products it's a worse version of something they used to offer for free. And there isn't a good alternative that I've found yet, and no music streaming service pays the artists anything worth mentioning.

I'm a software engineer as well, but (almost) none of my subscriptions are related to that. Currently:

• Netflix
• Disney+ bundle
• Bitwarden (yearly)
• DNS names (yearly) - currently unused because I bailed on Vultr due to TOS BS; this is for personal projects
• Tiller (yearly) - pulls transactions from my various accounts

That's about it. Everything else I buy one at a time, like video games or donations.

I'd like to drop Netflix and Disney+ over their stupid ad policy, but my wife and kids use them a lot.

Here's some stuff I plan to get soon:

• VPN - probably Mullvad
• Tuta - finally axe Google
• VPS - probably Hetzner; I'd prefer one without forced arbitration though; could get by if something like Tailscale allowed custom domains and port forwards
• Backblaze B2 - backups

Express VPN for foreign free to air TV, ad blocking on multiple devices. 200gb Google Cloud storage. Vultr VPN for Wireguard.

• AWS Cloud services
• Azure devops build services
• OpenAI API
• JetBrains Toolbox
• OneDrive
• Protonmail

Bitwarden Copilot YT Premium

Too many but here’s a few off the top of my head:

• GitHub Pro and Copilot
• ChatGPT
• Linode (I self-host a lot of things but keep Nextcloud off-site for backups)
• YouTube Premium and Nebula
• RadarScope, Windy, and NightSky (astronomy hobby plus I live in NOLA so good weather apps are kind of a must have)
• Feedly
• Bitwarden
• TripIt
• Apple Music

There’s more but as a developer, I try to pay for software. (I mean, if I don’t, who will?) I’ll sail the high seas for some stuff but only if the company pisses me off.

Just a vpn

Seedbox (+included vpn)
Usenet
YT Prem
Spotify
Ionos Mail
O365 (but I bought vouchers for 3 years at a reduced price)
-> I prefer Outlook over Thunderbird. Though with the new interface they had done I will probably migrate to it once it expires. The OneDrive storage is used for Obsidian.md. I store obsidian locally but sync it with the community plugin "remotely save").
Bitwarden
1 or 2 items I don't remember right now.

• ChatGPT
• YouTube Premium
• DoorDash
• ProtonMail
• Google (storage)
• Apple (storage)
• MLB (game audio)
• GitHub Premium
• Various Twitch Streamers
• Dropout
• Apple Music

I think that’s it. I would subscribe to Port87, but I made it, so I don’t need to.

I understand that that’s a lot of subscriptions. I used to have a lot more, and I’ve been slowly unsubscribing.

I’ve almost replaced ProtonMail with Port87, so that will be the next to go. I like ProtonMail, but I only subscribed so that I could do the things Port87 does automatically. I’ll still subscribe to Proton VPN though. I need that for… Linux ISOs.

I’ve also almost replaced Google Photos with Immich, so that will go soon too.

I’m thinking about replacing Apple Music with a self hosted option.

I also am finding ChatGPT less and less useful as open source LLMs get closer in quality.

• Protonmail
• Spotify
• Kagi search
• a handful of servers scattered in DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and AWS
• Sendgrid

• bitwarden
• proton VPN
• purelymail