Converted to USD, approx: 1. Health insurance 440 USD/mo 2. 280 USD/mo for the membership at barbelllogic online coaching 3. root server 70 USD/mo
What is this root server you speak of?
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#721. Hetzner servers ~€40/month 2. Zapier $30/month 3. Probably Airtable ($24/month), though I'm slowly moving away.
Why moving away from AirTable? Pricing or feature set?
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#73Gigabit home internet with static IP is probably my main “luxury” tech spend at 60ish pm.
That plus ~1k once off home server stuff to go with said static IP. Again not strictly speaking necessary so also a luxury item.
And 50pm is sundry vps and domains etc
Edit. Plus Office365 to provide a TB backup storage and office apps for all fam. About 5 bucks pm which is crazy cheap for 6TB high quality storage
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#74Converted to USD, approx: 1. Health insurance 440 USD/mo 2. 280 USD/mo for the membership at barbelllogic online coaching 3. root server 70 USD/mo
What is this root server you speak of?
Probably means a dedicated server not a VPS. Sometimes they’re called root servers cause you have root on the metal. 70 sounds about right for that
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#75Accelerator time - $500-$1k/hour
Sis3316 digitizers - $10k each
Helium 3 - $2k/liter at ambient pressure
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#76$24 in twitch subscriptions, $10 for a vps, $7 for amazon prime. Rough conversions from euros.
I dislike subscriptions, most purchases are one off. i didn't count mandatory things like internet access.
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#77I am assuming this this doesn't count major expenses like housing, insurrances, childcare, regular bills etc. After the stuff that everyone pays for, my top monthly expenses are:
1. Kids Ninja Warrior style gym: $109 2. Dog's Health insurance: $50 3. Home security company: $18
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#78Zero! Monthly subscriptions are waste of money, and whole SaaS is IMHO wrong step in human evolution. I prefer to have my stuff for free or own stuff. My free stack: - Comms: Free "work" phone with unlimited everything, and free unlimited LTE/5G "work" modem. - Music: Free Tidal from work + my own ripped MP3s. - Software hacking: free virtual machines running at Oracle Cloud(and some services at IBM cloud). - IDE: In…
The "free stack" you are using is partly only free because someone else is paying for it (your employer/IBM...) - so they actually are subscriptions in my eyes.
(slightly off topic: Germany tax authorities would see it similarly: The benefits you get from work could be called "monetary benefits" in Germany and the value added to your income for taxing purposes.)
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#79Zero! Monthly subscriptions are waste of money, and whole SaaS is IMHO wrong step in human evolution. I prefer to have my stuff for free or own stuff. My free stack: - Comms: Free "work" phone with unlimited everything, and free unlimited LTE/5G "work" modem. - Music: Free Tidal from work + my own ripped MP3s. - Software hacking: free virtual machines running at Oracle Cloud(and some services at IBM cloud). - IDE: In…
Out of all the things you mentioned, a political party membership is the only one I wouldn't pay for. May I ask what value you get out of being a paid member?
>what value you get out of being a paid member?
- More money from fees = better political campaigns = more voters = larger representation in Parliament/Congress = ability to change the Law(country, county or City wide). This is very rewarding - and much better than just moaning about politicians!
- Large "instant" social network of people who shares the same values as you do! (We have a lot of internal messaging tools and forums.)
- There is a lot of members who are lawyers, doctors, accountants, barbers etc. - so its easy to get some occasional help for free or with discount.
- You can literally change the world. For example you start some loose discussion on Discord or Slack let's say about homeless people: and half year later, after various meetings and internal votes our senators/MPs can actually make such proposal to Parliment/Congress. It is VERY rewarding.
- A lot of introverts inside of party, as it attracts mostly high IQ people, so it is possible to find company to play chess, computers games, board games or real life sports etc.
- You can actually TALK to politicians that you see in TV. Or have beer with them.
- You can argue, or give your own ideas about something - at it WILL be taken in account(internal voting even at lowest levels).
- You can say: "At least I tried to DO something!"
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#80( assumed it's work-related stuff )
- JetBrains All Products Pack USD 149.25/yr
- server4you.com unmetered VPS USD 32.00/mo
- 100Mbps broadband internet ( Brazil ) USD 49.00/mo