Be Excellent To Each Other

I'm about to get YouTube Premium, for reasons involving London Underground and sucking a bleeding dick. Let's not dwell on that.

It got me to thinking, what monthly payments are you making for nice-to-have things? I suspect that when I do the math I'm going to be a bit sad.

So, Beex posters and lukers: what do you spend? Do you spend lots?? Let's find out!

Spotify
Netflix
Amazon Prime
A totally legit subscription to a newsgroup provider

I think that might be it?

Prices, Cras!

PSN?

All of those. £15 for Spotify, £10 for Netflix, £6.58 for Amazon, $30 for Giganews.

Plus approx $20/mo for an AWS instance hosting dead websites that I should really, really delete. PS+ was £55/15mo last time I bought it (I usually get a discount on that.)

That's about £72/month so far. Ow.

£30 a month for giganews?

I pay about £7 a quarter for my newsgroups access

Spotify - £10
Netflix - £8 I think
Prime - £7
Audible - £10
PSN - Usually pay around £35-40 per year so £3.33
BBC License Fee too I guess - £12.50

£12 YouTube Premium
£15 Spotify Family
£8 Dropbox
£1.59 Google Drive
£24 (ish, it's $30) A totally legit subscription to a newsgroup provider
£10 (ish, it's $12) Humble Monthly Bundle
£7.99 Office 365
£4.16 PS Plus
£26 Virgin TV (estimated as part of a larger package)
£6.58 Amazon Prime
£8 Netflix
£2.59 (ish, it's $3.33) Plex Pass
[edit] I forgot about
£12.50 (ish, it's £16) Sirius Select
£10 Apple Music

I'm not going to include my phone or TV License. Or this place.

I think that's it. That is (closes eyes) £125.91 £148.41.

Oh.

Right.

That's a lot.

That's two different streaming music providers and three different cloud storage providers

£7.99 - Netflix
£4.99 - Spotify Unlimited
£6.58 - Amazon Prime
£14.79 - Cyfe (dashboard site, that in theory helps with work stuff but I don't really look at it much these days. Haven't cancelled yet as I don't want to lose the historical data)
£7.89 - Wincher (SEO stuff for two domains)
£1.59 - Google Drive (for Mum, to save her deleting all the damn photos she downloads)

I think that's about it.

EDIT - Office 365. Although I buy it yearly, so works out at around £5.66 a month

Nest camera cloud storage - £8/mo
Apple iCloud storage -- £0.80
Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom & 1 TB storage - £20/mo

Call it £100/mo.

Err, Spotify, Netflix, amazon prime, teamspeak server, ps+

And most importantly, of course
£2 - World of Stuart forum subscription

Christ -- Backblaze for 2 computers - £6.50

£107/mo

So, all your phones are free?

All of mine are

I consider my phone an essential. I can live without that other stuff.

Granted, I could have a cheaper phone, but that would start getting complicated.

I figured you would be

Also, you might note that I've not included any "web" stuff, no servers, no domain names. Fuck adding that lot up.

Yesss, I suspect that would at least double your monthly bill

See, there are reasons for that - all of them offer something different:
- Spotify has all my playlists on, and I've been using it for eleventy million years
- YouTube Premium lets me pre-download YouTube videos
- Dropbox does immediate sync of photos I take to my computers, and has all my stuff in
- Google Drive stores all my photos and lets me use Google Photos
- Office 365 lets me use Word and shit

Does the Google Drive PC app sync your photos? If so I could probably ditch the paid version of DropBox.

I've got about 65 domains, but some of them belong to other people who pay me for hosting, so although it's not a net negative, it probably doesn't cost as much as you'd think.

You could use OneDrive to sync your photos as I assume you've got a fair chunk of storage with your Office 365 account? That's what I do - I take photos for ConsoleMAD on my phone and they sync to the PC for me to edit them.

Netflix £10
Amazon prime £2.50
Usenet Sub Approx £3.33
PIA VPN £5.5
Plex Pass £2.66
Phone sub £40

Soon to be readded: Xbox Live

Edited Usenet Price

Hmm, yeah I've got 1TB of OneDrive storage. I shall investigate photo syncing from my phone. Thanks!

You do? Who with?

I've cancelled my Humble Monthly Bundle! Look at me go!

I was going to ask when you last played a game from it

Yes: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6093613

I started it in January, because you got Civ VI. I don't like Civ, but a colleague kept going on about it and it sounded fun, so I figured I'd give it another go. I played for about an hour and decided I still didn't like it.

That's the only one I played.

I know.

They only give me 100GB of storage though so pffft.

Monthly:
£10 on Netflix
£40 on Phone
£40 on broadband/landline/Youview

Annual:
£79 Amazon Prime
Keep almost resuming PS+ but still waiting on a really good month to start.

It'll get cheaper when Google One launches in the UK: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/14/1735 ... ns-cheaper

£3.33 on PS+. Um, that's it I think. I do have access to Play Music but it's free (on my mate's family account) and I almost never use it.

Unlimited for photos, no?

Not at full resolution, only if you tolerate downsampling and downsizing. And imagine how out of focus Grim...'s pics would be then!

If it downsampled using just random pixel interpolation, I think I could only improve them.

What does it downscale to, come to think of it?

I have mis-remembered. I pay Tweaknews 23 Euro every 6 months. Which works out at just over £3 a month. I am limited to 1.5MB/s at that price, but that's not a problem for me.

16 MP or 1080p max https://support.google.com/photos/answe ... ktop&hl=en

But it still recompresses images below 16 MP by squeezing the JPG: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/arpit-ver ... 02076.html

It's not a big deal, though.

What is this, a usenet subscription for ants?!

1.5MB or Mb? The former's not too bad.

https://www.tweaknews.eu/en/usenet-plans

50 mbit

Not so bad, I misread it as bits.

Yeah, it's frustrating on larger downloads, but for my standard automagic TV stuff, it's more than fast enough for me.

None of those plans lines up exactly with what I last paid in July, so I guess they've rejigged it. Might up my speed when I next renew

I buy the data blocks off Tweak News, so you only pay for what you use. (I usually buy the 500GB blocks, and they never expire.)

I have the following:-

Amazon Prime £6.58 a month
Nintendo Switch online £1.66 a month

And that's it I think?

I have Xbox live but I haven't had to pay for that for about 3 years so that won't count. I also have access to the WWE network and Netflix thanks to friends so I don't pay for that either.

Do you still have that lock up?

Phone (£10)
Dropbox (£7-£8?)
Photoshop (too much)
Spotify (£14.99)
Patreon stuff (just upload.farm at the minute, I cancelled others - £1.50?)
Deodorant subscription €24.95 every 4 months

I actually pay for Dropbox & Photoshop yearly though.

Oh, and I also have a bucket of domains and hosting but I don't like tallying those up because it's scary!

You wha? I've never heard of such a service.

That said, I have a Harry's razor subscription (though I share that with Mrs Fop because no one changes their razor blade once a week)

I have the usual suspects, plus Now TV Movies, Entertainment and Kids, which I really should do away with as we never seem to watch them.