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Obsidian Google (for Deep Research, Gemini and NotebookLM) ChatGPT (For ChatGPT and Codex) GitKraken CodeRabbit Novelcrafter (for fiction) Wondercraft (wrapper around Elevnlabs and Googles TTS) Seriously considering Elevenreader as well Raindrop (bookmarks) OutdoorActive (maps for hiking) YouTube Premium Sanebox (Email triage)
YouTube premium is equivalent to uBlock Origin
I pay (personally) for Postico and ChatGPT. I pay for Mullvad for my VPN of choice, and Eweka and Drunkenslug for newsgroups (i.e. every media ever invented downloaded at maximum speed) Bitwarden for personal password management x.com sub to get rid of the ads youtube pro to get rid of ads
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Obsidian Google (for Deep Research, Gemini and NotebookLM) ChatGPT (For ChatGPT and Codex) GitKraken CodeRabbit Novelcrafter (for fiction) Wondercraft (wrapper around Elevnlabs and Googles TTS) Seriously considering Elevenreader as well Raindrop (bookmarks) OutdoorActive (maps for hiking) YouTube Premium Sanebox (Email triage)
YouTube premium is equivalent to uBlock Origin
Obsidian Google (for Deep Research, Gemini and NotebookLM) ChatGPT (For ChatGPT and Codex) GitKraken CodeRabbit Novelcrafter (for fiction) Wondercraft (wrapper around Elevnlabs and Googles TTS) Seriously considering Elevenreader as well Raindrop (bookmarks) OutdoorActive (maps for hiking) YouTube Premium Sanebox (Email triage)
YouTube premium is equivalent to uBlock Origin
• Infuse, from Firecore (probably the best video player on Apple TV, iOS, iPadOS and macOS — you can throw almost any format at it)
• Owl, by Beonex (it’s a Mozilla Thunderbird extension that connects to MS Exchange and costs $10 a year)
• Bvckup 2 (Windows backup software) — this gets cheaper on renewals
On services:
• Apple Fitness+ (annual subscription is a lot cheaper than monthly), one of the best things that keeps me working out regularly
• Posteo.de for emails
- Kagi for search and translation.
- rsync.net for backup (although I took their lifetime subscription offer so I no longer actively pay them).
- Self-hosting related costs (rented servers and domain names).
- Buttondown for sending out blog updates. (I was generously gifted a lifetime subscription, but had I not been I would likely have paid for it eventually anyway.)
- The Economist for moderately-biased news spanning the entire world.
I also pay for Spotify, though I increasingly doubt whether it is giving me more value than purchasing the music I want directly. I suppose I do it out of convenience rather than economic gain.
This feels like a very HN set of subscriptions...
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Things I don't pay for:
- Excalidraw: I didn't even know that was possible.
- Google Photos: it keeps bugging me to, and I keep intending to exchange it for Immich.
- YouTube: I'm not a heavy YouTube user, but NewPipe and adblocker goes a long way.
- LLMs: I find API credits to be better value.
- VPN: I run OpenVPN on the closet server. That said, I have moved and I don't trust the new home ISP as much so this might change.
- Password manager: KeePassXC and SyncThing is sufficient.
- Notes: Org and Orzly and SyncThing is sufficient.
- Cloud storage: SyncThing and a closet server is sufficient.
