My email provider (and domains), Bitwarden and Obsidian.
Less happy:
Spotify and Spotify Premium (If I could I'd get rid of the YT music part)
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I use YNAB for budgeting. There is a version of a related software you can self-host and you can subscribe to a bank-info-linking service on your own as well, but I don't want to have to administer something as boring as budgeting.
The support is also pretty good!
The one bad thing is price. About $100 a year :<
mullvad vpn.
i be sailing them seas with no abandon.
Proton for email Signal for messaging (donations) Bitwarden for passwords Currently trailing Kagi for search after the comments on this post Random donations to my instance
Email.
Bunch of open source projects.
Steam games/Valve.
I dont know if this counts/its a hot take.
It really depends on the game tbh(some regret some dont)
I appreciate their work on Proton.
And Steam is the only website I can really buy video games from.
Chess.com. Its totally worth it for the game review which is the part of it I'd consider a "service", but there's other good stuff in there if you like to play.
I give monthly to my Mastodon instance.
Torguard.com VPN. Going on 8 years of use, many terabytes of data transfer, no complaints.
Roll20. I play D&D twice a week, and the paid features (increased storage & dynamic lighting) are absolutely worth it. It's not even super expensive; just $60/year. Totally worth it for how often I use it!
SomaFM
Backblaze B2
YouTube Premium. No ads and the creators I watch get paid more.
Yes, I'm aware of all the apps out there that give you the Premium perks without actually paying for it. Here's the thing: the VAST majority of my watching is done on my TV via an Apple TV and I really CBA to go through all the hoops to make any of those apps work with my setup.
I don't watch any other streaming services and I don't watch cable / network TV. I'm okay paying for Premium to get the best experience.
I don’t like it, but YouTube family is by far the most bang for buck for our family in hours watched vs price.
And not having to watch any shitty ass ads on any YouTube client wherever I log in is amazing.
I pay for that too but I wouldn't say I'm HAPPY about paying for it. Because I remember when YouTube used to be free and had no ads.
They were not profitable though, you can only do that for so long before you fold and then no one gets anything.
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I'll pay for Mullvad and Usenet/indexer
- Netcup (I switched from hetzner a few months ago because I found a better deal)
- Infomaniak for domain names
- Purelymail, a really cheap email host (I don't want to deal with self-hosting it)
- Exoscale as an object storage provider, which I use for Lemmy and self-hosted Ente (which I chose over Immich because it supports S3 as a storage option, I don't have enough storage on my netcup server or my homelab for image backups and I'd rather not deal with the stress of a potential loss of data caused by drive failure or something) for my family
- Threema (not really a service because it's a one time purchase, but now that we're shilling I thought I'd include it), which I also managed to get my family to buy.
Another Threma user! With me, my wife and the other one I found on Lemmy we are four!
Hetzner VPS and their Storage Box, that is, managed Nextcloud instance.
Mailbox.org email service.
Nebula
It supports independent creators and I get to watch Jet Lag a week early
Kagi, Soundcloud, Bear.
Bear is so much better than Apple Notes.
Mealime.
Meal planning app. Has a database of hundreds of easy to make, healthy, tasty recipes. Tell it how many people you want to cook for, for how many days. It builds a whole meal plan, adjusts the quantities of all the recipies, builds a shopping list for you, and will even forward the list to Instacart for you if you're into that.
It also builds the meal plan based on reducing food waste, so if you have one recipe that uses half an onion, it will automatically find another recipe that uses the other half. You can also define ingredients you don't like/allergic to and it will avoid recipes that use those.
MASSIVELY increased the amount of at-home cooking I do by getting rid of all the boring/annoying parts. Kinda like Blue Apron, but you just go buy your own groceries. Best $2 a month I spend.
It's $3/mo
Bit warden & Nabu Casa. Both great & they support really good OS projects
Dr demento show. For 15.00 a month you get new and all old episodes.
This man has earned my money for all the years of entertainment and laughs he has provided.
Star trekkin across the universe!
donations to soma.fm, listener supported free music streaming/internet radio out of San Francisco
Ha i just commented SomaFM because Thistle Radio was on during a stressful part of a long drive and it was soon good.
I played Dragon Age:Origin with Symphaera in the background instead of the game music
Yeah most of the stations are pretty good even if it's not my usual genres and I'll skip around, but Groove salad and defcon are my usuals, i like beat blender for an alarm and mission control for background music while working.
Mission Control is so much fun
My wife finally got me to give up my 20 year old tshirt I had from them. It was more hole than shirt. I should order another.
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is there an online service that eliminates capitalism?
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