If you’re on iOS and you want to Mastodon, just use Ice Cubes. Don’t bother with anything else, that’s just like, my opinion, man.
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I’m going to Bombay Bicycle Club show in a couple of weeks so I’ve checked if they did publish an album I should listen to before I go (because I’m in love with their first two albums) and they did. And it’s great! Honestly. I have a feeling that it actually might become my fav album of theirs!
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I mean paying 60pln ~~ $15 per year to save 5767pln ~~ $1389,12? I’d say it was worth it.
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Kev Quirk on his blog did an analysis of subscriptions (and before that, it was Manu Moreale) so I thought it would be a good exercise to do it too, so let’s go.
Let’s start with “necessities”:
– Apple One (with music, TV, and storage space + additional storage space) – 64.98 PLN ~~ $16.86 monthly
– Fastmail (for my wife and me) – 415 PLN ~~ $100 per year
– Allegro Smart (like Amazon Prime but for the Polish Amazon alternative) – 59.90 PLN ~~ $14.45 per year
– Amazon Prime – 50 PLN ~~ $12 per year
– 1Password – 312 PLN ~~ $75 per year
– Mobile phone with 45GB of a really good, 5G network – 35 PLN ~~ $8.5 per month
– iPad internet – 29 PLN ~~ $7 per month
– Adobe – 135 PLN ~~ $32.5 per monthNow let’s move on to entertainment:
– HBO – 20 PLN ~~ $4.85 per month (we got locked in at some introductory price and it’s still going strong)
– Apple Music & Apple TV – 0 because it’s already included in the Apple One subscription
– YouTube Premium – 46.99 PLN ~~ $11.30 per monthAnd finally, hobbies:
– micro.blog – 210 PLN ~~ $50 per year
– Hetzner VPS for forum.yeswas.pl and wspanialy.eu – 53 PLN ~~ $12.77 per month
– Backblaze B2 backup – 6 PLN ~~ $1.45 per month
– BunnyCDN – 4.15 PLN ~~ $1 per month
– Mailgun – 4.15 PLN ~~ $1 per month
– Telegram – 9.99 PLN ~~ $2.4 per monthSo to sum it up, it’s about 470 PLN per month, which translates to about $115 per month. Could it be lower? Definitely, but we agreed that what we have here is low enough for us to keep it. Streaming services are obviously the first to be cut if needed, but for now, it’s okay.
We used to have subscriptions for Netflix (which was about 70 PLN ~~ $17) and Disney (289 PLN ~~ $70 per year), but we stopped paying for them because who actually has enough time to consume that amount of media? HBO and ATV+ are enough, and when they aren’t, we can always use our locally hosted Plex machine (which we do for content that’s unavailable otherwise!).
So, to continue this discussion – how about you? What is your monthly subscription payment?
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Searching for search engine notes:
– Qwant isn’t that great, it’s just a tad worse Bing,
– Kagi is great but no way in hell worth $10 per month,
– DuckDuckGo is just painfully bad for me and results most of the time suckHere I am, Bing or Google, unfortunately.
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Yesterday my wife & I budgeted next month in YNAB just to wake up to an email about YouTube Premium price increase. Eh.
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Yeah, I’m gonna try to keep work things like that and let’s see where it goes.
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OMG, you can pin tabs that are in split view in Arc Browser!!! This is going to be a gamechanger.
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There’s an app that I use very single day to create screenshots of everything and it’s the best. Honestly.
Take look at Cleanshot and I’m pretty sure you’re gonna love it.
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01.11.2023.
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Tested Kagi for as-long-as-I-could-without-paying. It’s pretty good I must admint. Not sure if $10 per month good, but good!
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New M3 Macs looks fine enough to get upgrade. The one that interests me the most is about 11500 pln ($2755 with taxes) so it’s not that bad, but I’m gonna wait a couple months and snag it on 1-2k pln discount because of course they will be that cheaper in ~Feb.
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I broke OS on not one but two different Raspberry Pies I’ve got at home. Not looking forward to spinning them up again from scratch unfortunately but I have to. Sounds like weekend/Friday plans are made up…
