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They are awesome! Feels like a little island of the old internet.
Imgur - $2/mo to get rid of ads. Ads are what causes the app to be crashy. No ads, no crashes. It's absolutely worth it to me for that price.
Proton - the whole suite. I use it all.
crabshack.ai - an easier, better version of openclaw/ personal ai agent.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket tho
Its a fair point, I also have my own M365 tenant and multiple other things, I just really appreciate Proton.
Services only or one time purchase apps too?
Proton and Signal. I think that's it.
Ultimate Guitar. I got a lifetime membership for like 30 bucks over a decade ago and I use that shit all the time. Their pro-tabs are awesome.
Ooo, feel like selling me on it?
Whether you’re just starting or you’re a master shredder, there’s something for you. I haven’t used any of their lessons, as I found them after I’d been playing for a long time, so I can’t attest to the lessons themselves, but going through their options they have a lot of lessons for learning scales and practice exercises, and can build your own library of tabs and lessons so you don’t have to search for the same song over and over while learning or refreshing on it. A lot of the features are free, so even without the membership it’s still a great resource for any guitar player.
For me, the meat and potatoes is in the tabs library and the pro tabs option that you get with a membership. It lays out the full song in bar format and you can have it play a midi tone version of the song from what’s in the tabs so you can hear the notes and watch the tracker to know exactly where that tone is supposed to land with proper timing. It helps so much more than straight tabs, as you can see and hear where and how the sound structure comes together for things that are hard to translate when you’re just looking at numbers on a page trying to figure how to play those with proper timing and placement, especially for complex things where it’s a million notes in a cluster with nothing to translate timing.
Like any community tabs archive, not everything is always a correct tablature, but the selection is better than everything else I’ve dug into. I’m not sure what the monthly is, but I see the same lifetime deal I got pop up from time to time.
Hell yeah, thanks!
Happy shredding!
There are three that I've happily subscribed to for years:
Adguard Kagi Mega
I use all three daily and they all more than make up for their price.
What do you use mega for? Just curious...
My domain names and web/email server hosting.
Not having to worry about all the horrors one is subjected to when they depend on a free service for online presence, email, etc. is worth a great deal to me. Any free service can disappear or kick you off at a whim leaving you with nothing, social media sites and apps come and go (and/or enshittify) while as a consumer of a paid service you not only have a quality of service beyond freebies (privacy, no ads, what I want to put online is exactly what goes online unadulterated, people who want to find or contact me can always do so at my own site on my own terms) you also have consumer protections if things go wrong.
While I'm not self-hosting my web stuff on my own hardware, the host I use is a small business owned by an old friend and fellow hacker which means I'm not at the mercy of some faceless corporation's TOS either. My host and I see eye-to-eye on what's appropriate for me to put out there via her machinery, and she's also not extrajudicially sharing my private crap with fascist government forces like the big tech monoliths and most free services do.
I won't say where I rent my servers from so as not to "shill", but yeah. Good little company run by one old guy, I think. Maybe he has some help, but seems like the rare times I've had to contact, it's probably just him. Totally self-managed, but the prices reflect that and I've got a couple of really decent dedicated servers for $25 and $35 per month. Webmin on top and it's so much better and cheaper than a decade or more ago I was paying $200/mo for equivalent level.
Email.
As someone who has been self hosting some stuff and generally aspires to work in IT, it is simply unfeasible to expect services like this for free
Would it cost me less to host such a server divided by x users? Yes
Do I have x users I can sustainably service without burning out? No.
So its either a managed server for like 15€ per month + a bunch of work or a paid email provider, in my case fastmail.
Windscribe VPN
Filen cloud storage
iCloud 50gb plan (ok I don’t happily pay for this, but I need this)
- posteo.de for Mail (1€/month)
- addy.io for mail aliases with custom domain (1€/month)
- 2 domains at gandi.net (DNSSEC, U2F, 🇫🇷)
- 2 small VPS + 1TB Storagebox at Hetzner
- 1TB Seedbox @ hostingby.design 🇩🇰
- Encrypted Notes with nice, fast editor @ notesnook.com (Essential Plan - 1,73 €/month)
... and my employer pays my Kagi.com account 😁
How does posteo compare to mailbox.org?
PBS Passport for $5/month is so worth it.
I donate $5 quarterly to Wikipedia. It's not much but I figure every bit helps
Your comment made me donate to them for the first time just now. Only $5 but it’s something, I guess.
I donate whenever they remind me. I love that site
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