🎮 Gaming: PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch and Anbernic RG35XX
🔐 Password Management: 1Password
👨🏻💻 Terminal: WebSSH
Someone in our complex is renovating, so there are renovation sounds like clicking, bumping, and drilling. The old lady next door is not happy about it and is shouting and hitting the pipes to make them stop. Now we have two sources of loud sounds. Congrats, you played yourself.
NAS recovered. Not yet fully restored in terms of apps but it’s already working. I’m gonna slightly upgrade it though before doing anything else. From 8 to 16GB RAM, from 128GB SSD to 128+256 SSD and 2TB HDD. Slight upgrade.
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.
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!
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.
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…
