Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Obsidian Sync
  • YouTube Premium
  • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    8 months ago

    Literally nothing. All self hosted if I need it. Fuck subscription fees

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      Do you off-site backup as well? I don’t have the kind of money necessary to self host an on network and an off-site backup of my data…

      • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        I used wasabi BackUp service years ago, it was about $50 a month for my 7 TB, and it took over a month to upload the initial back up. Now, I have about five times that much storage used up and there’s no way I would pay $250 a month for that. All stuff I’ve downloaded from Torrents, so if something bad happened I could get it back again. I save all my torrent files so I could re-download them fairly easily. I also run a raid 6 configuration so I can tolerate up to two drives failing before I lose data.

        • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          8 months ago

          RAID is not a backup, NAS is not a backup. Obviously there is no reason to backup readily available torrents but it doesn’t sound like you’re backing up at all. Self hosting data integrity is a much harder task than implied.

          • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            It’s enough data redundancy for me. Did I state it was a discrete backup? No, but it’s not needed.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Do you have any decent options for routing a DNS name to a local machine behind NAT? I usually do this with a VPS, but I really don’t like the terms at a lot of VPS services (forced arbitration everywhere).

      • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        I paid namecheap for a domain, it was $50 for 8 years. So I guess I lied, I did pay for that ages ago. Then, I use my UniFi Dream Machine firewall to route traffic to my Plex and game servers within my network. It’s great because I have Minecraft.mydomain.com, files.mydomain.com and palworld.mydomain.com that people use to access things. Do note that this requires a static IP from your ISP unless you want to get a dynamic dns service running which isn’t too bad.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, I don’t have access to dynamic DNS because I’m behind a NAT (ISP gives me a 10.x.x.x address). I can pay for a static IP, but I’d really rather not.

          I was hoping there was something like Tailscale where I could forward ports over a VPN and use the VPN host’s IP for my DNS. I can kinda get there with Tailscale’s public DNS, but I can’t use my own (well, I could use a CNAME, but I’d use their certs).

          Anyway, it’s a temporary thing since I should be getting a new municipal fiber connection soon.

        • ahal@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Namecheap supports ddns out of the box too, no additional service required. You just need a cron job that calls their API to update your IP periodically.