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!

🎵 My Big Day - Bombay Bicycle Club - ★★★★★

I mean paying 60pln ~~ $15 per year to save 5767pln ~~ $1389,12? I’d say it was worth it.

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 month

Now 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 month

And 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 month

So 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?

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 suck

Here I am, Bing or Google, unfortunately.

Yesterday my wife & I budgeted next month in YNAB just to wake up to an email about YouTube Premium price increase. Eh.

Yeah, I’m gonna try to keep work things like that and let’s see where it goes.

OMG, you can pin tabs that are in split view in Arc Browser!!! This is going to be a gamechanger.

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.

01.11.2023.

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!

🎵 Austin - Post Malone - ★★★★★

Just can’t stop with it.

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.

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…

I guess everyone will raise prices for streaming but there’s this one place that will always have movies and tv shows for free and I’m not saying anything but I guess I am?

Yea somehow I doubt that my data is perfectly safe and private because if it really was that, then GDPR wouldn’t do any harm to you! And - after 5 years - it’s still unavailable here. I love European Union and how law (GDPR in this case) is actually making these shitty services disappear from EU!

About me being close to new hetzner server yesterday - I was actually thinking of getting YunoHost for my wife and myself. I didn’t do a thing though because was too asleep but I think this day will come.

I don’t even need to host anything new and I’m not ready to take on another wspanialy-related journey. Still researched the best VPSes to propably buy and use.

I’m dangerously close to hetzner cloud dashboard this evening

This doesn’t spark joy.

It’s not like I have too much time but I’d definitely spin up new VPS and host something for people to enjoy.

Publishing posts on Patreon with audio might be one of the worst experiences on the internet. It’s taking AGES.

I wish that DuckDuckGo was actually good instead of being “good enough and if it isn’t good I can always use !g bang to search google!”. If you always “bang” yourself out of DDG - it just isn’t that good, you don’t have to lie to yourself.

Heard good things about Qwant, so I’m gonna check it on all of my devices and see if it really does work that good.

I love Spendee and I use it everyday with my wife but the reason I’m gonna leave them (and stop paying money which I AM!) is because those fuckers are sending me notifications and showing pop-ups in the app to buy premium. It’s so annoying!