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I switched away from NameCheap to a Canadian domain registrar after swearing off American software where possible. They’ve been great. It’s a smaller company so I’ve gotten really quick responses on tickets I’ve put in
Good reminder, my domain is up soon and I need to do the same.
Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I’ve happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.
I honestly think that’s my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.
It certainly does. Which do you use?
RamNode for all but one of them. They’re not the best, but they’ve been solid for years.
What do you do with the VPS? I’m just curious.
I run my own piefed and vaultwarden through yunohist on a 5$/month vps from OVH
That can handle the traffic or do you have additional data costs per month?
Yes, ovh gives you, for my vps model at least, 400 mbps bandwith and unlimitted traffic. I have experienced no additional costs.
Oh shit, I might check this out. Thanks!
ProBoxTV is a YouTube channel with boxing. 4 shows in the next month. Next one is in a few hours. It’s free but you can donate to their channel.
Here’s a really interesting podcast that showed how bellingcat was able to deduce the identity of someone who had almost perfect opsec:
I donate $5 quarterly to Wikipedia. It’s not much but I figure every bit helps
I donate whenever they remind me. I love that site
I just donate a yearly sum of 30€. Glad to see others donating as well.
Your comment made me donate to them for the first time just now. Only $5 but it’s something, I guess.
Kagi.com - excellent search engine. Yes, it shouldn’t be needed, but in this day and age it clearly is. Excellent slop filter, and it let’s you downrank and uprank certain sites in your search results. And I just found out you can see the most popular sites for each category, so it’s fast and easy to see which sites probably are and aren’t worth having in your results at all. It makes internet search feel like it did 20 years ago.
Namecheap.com - It’s where I have my domain names. Mostly because they aren’t godaddy.
Names heap also offer to hide your domain owner details from the public for fred
I’d be careful with Kagi: unfortunately, collecting your payment information and attaching it to an account is directly at odds with maintaining privacy on the internet. I used Kagi for a year and did enjoy the search, but ultimately didn’t renew due to privacy concerns.
They do have privacy pass, which claims to alleviate some of the privacy concerns, but then you lose all the customization functionality (my main use for Kagi) and there appear to be some issues with it (see this thread https://piefed.social/post/1204472).
Yes, it shouldn’t be needed
My view is that is should be needed. Advertising is a bad business model, I’d much prefer paying for a service I used. I think we should all get more comfortable paying for the sites we use.
Agreed, and having heard of them for the first time today, their payment plan seems incredibly reasonable, crediting us for unused monthly plan credits means it’s basically pay as you go with a limit to avoid surprise bills, while avoiding the feeling of overpaying because I’m not using a service enough
They only credit for months you do no searches at all, if you do one you pay for the full month, but it’s a nice touch. Personally I can’t think of a situation where I’d do no searches in a month!
For something as important as search, paying $5 or $10 a month seems entirely reasonable to me. I’ve been a Kagi user ever since their unlimited plan dropped to $10 a month when they reached enough users that they could do that.
I see, I misread their site. Still, that seems very fair
Yeah and when you’re using 200 different services and apps and pay for each and every one of them suddenly you have -$2K in your bank account each month, it’s not sustainable
You are paying for these services one way or another. But no one says you have to pay $10 for each service.
Same. Love Kagi. Tried going without for a while, and the difference was stark. Re-upped, and all is now right with my search world.
I knowww it’s shit on, and I hate that the price went up. But I can’t get rid of Spotify. I don’t love it, but it’s definitely the best music app I’ve used. I do love that it shows local concerts based on the music I listen to.
Check out qobuz, I switched from Spotify long ago and most of the same catalog was available often at better quality for the same subscription price, there was a tool to transfer likes/playlists/etc, non US based, and they pay artists a reasonable rate compared to others.
The only streaming service I won’t pirate.
I’ve been considering it, Game Changer is pretty good
They have a few days trial, and encourage account sharing. So you could give it a crack and split it with a friend. Quite a few shows and podcasts they do are worth the price.
Besides, they pay the talent far better than anyone else in Los Angeles, if that kind of thing is important for you.
Plus, when they raised their subscription price to pay for more shows, anyone who was already a member kept their original subscription price. They even gave folks a month or so to sign up and lock in the lower price. A lot of people love the channel so much they wanted to pay the higher price. It’s my favorite streaming service.
Oh, and about paying the talent: last year they did a profit share and anyone who earned money from Dropout got a cut. They pay people to come to auditions, so even those people got some of the profit sharing.
Dropout is the gold standard of streaming services.
A seedbox
This. €6,95/mo and mine has rutorrent set so you can associate magnet links, so I click a magnet link in my browser and it gets sent to the box. It also has Emby on it, so I don’t have to download, I can stream right from the box.
None.
- Dropout.tv
- VPN + email
- Music streaming
Nebula. There are only a handful of creators on there that I watch regularly, but even then, it’s worth it for the price.
I really need to give this and/or Curiosity Steam a try. I still get a lot of use out of YouTube Premium (oh, boo yourself 😄) but for documentary type things, it’s so hard to sure through the AI generated stuff anymore.
I initially got both when they had a curiosity steam/nebula annual bundle. I gotta say, some of the curiosity stream stuff is hit or miss for me. Some categories/genres have more/better documentaries than others. Overall it’s nice for when I just want to throw on something interesting while I eat. Nebula, I loved so much that when they stopped doing the bundle with curiosity stream I just got the lifetime nebula subscription so that I can always have it. Getting to download the videos for offline watching is super nice for long flights
Thank you for the input!
It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to do since the 2 services were bundled, but whenever I got bored with YouTube or whatever other streaming things I was using, I’d take a break and read a book from my backlog or play a video game and then forget to try them.
I just want longer content to put on in the background or while I do chores, I just don’t want it to be AI slop.
I really wish nebula polled the community ornhad some way to offer feedback on including some other streamers. There are a handful of varied channels i would love to watch away from yt.
- Purelymail ($10/y)
- Proton VPN ($30/y on sale)
- Porkbun domains ($40/y)
- Hetzner VPS ($60/y for now)
Covers almost everything I need online
- My VPS providers. Ramnode and Contabo.
- Kagi Search
- Wikipedia (donation)
- Newsgroup Ninja and NZBGeek.
- Bitwarden
- Tossable Digits - hold and virtually use my US number while I live abroad
Privacy.com. I pay 10 bucks a month and never have to expose my debit or credit card numbers, I just use virtual ones. Plus, I get about $10 cash back each month, so really, it pays for itself.
I used privacy.com for years happily until one day they said they would freeze my account if I didn’t provide a lot of personal info. I let them keep it.
It used to be free, they made their money from CC surcharges. You have to pay now?
No they still do a free version. I paid to upgrade so I can use the cards in my Apple Wallet and get a few other features.
