Technology

• ChatGPT
• Midjourney
• YouTube Premium (which I get through a mobile phone subscription at a heavy discount)
• Spotify
• Channel4 ad-free (UK broadcaster)

In addition I support a range of software through GitHub and Patreon:

• PhotoPrism
• Gluetun
• Little Navmap
• wg-easy
• DuckDNS

Finally I’ve got paid access to a couple of major and minor media sources:

• Washington Post
• Jyllands Posten (largest Danish newspaper)
• Olfi (specialised Danish defense news, named after a Danish frigate Olfert Fisher)
• Krigskunst (“The Art of War”, specialised Danish defense podcast)
• Det Hemmeligste at Det Hemmelige (podcast about spy craft and stay behind movements during the Cold War - just gone behind a pay wall but used to run on a public service channel)

My financial /spending data has a price

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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

• Mullvad
• 1Password
• pCloud
• Kagi
• Real Debrid
• YouTube Premium
• Posteo
• Deezer
• Qobus
• Tidal Hifi

(Yes i listen a lot to music)

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.

Mullvad and Tuta are the only services I pay for monthly

1Pass NordVpn ChatGPT YouTube Premium

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

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

• 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.

• 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.