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donations to soma.fm, listener supported free music streaming/internet radio out of San Francisco
They are awesome! Feels like a little island of the old internet.
Ha i just commented SomaFM because Thistle Radio was on during a stressful part of a long drive and it was soon good.
I played Dragon Age:Origin with Symphaera in the background instead of the game music
Yeah most of the stations are pretty good even if it’s not my usual genres and I’ll skip around, but Groove salad and defcon are my usuals, i like beat blender for an alarm and mission control for background music while working.
Mission Control is so much fun
My wife finally got me to give up my 20 year old tshirt I had from them. It was more hole than shirt. I should order another.
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Is kagi any good to filter out AI generated slop web pages?
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I use YNAB for budgeting. There is a version of a related software you can self-host and you can subscribe to a bank-info-linking service on your own as well, but I don’t want to have to administer something as boring as budgeting.
The support is also pretty good!
The one bad thing is price. About $100 a year :<
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
Currently, I’m paying for a vps where I run a test environment for my homelab. I also pay for mail and vpn services, support some FOSS projects and buys music a couple times a month.
Incogni
Probably saily if I start travelling again.
Proton stuff.
I’m going to be switching all my nord stuff to proton I think as I’m finding nord getting incredibly unstable on their marketing. One moment they have meshnet. Then nope. Next moment yes. Oh but now incogni is no longer included. Probably because nord is unstable.
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…
Kagi. https://kagi.com/
Best search engine I’ve ever used.
Plus one.
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.
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!
Here’s a really interesting podcast that showed how bellingcat was able to deduce the identity of someone who had almost perfect opsec:
- Dropout.tv
- VPN + email
- Music streaming
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.
- 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
