Shill your favorite product and service. MLMs and corporate representatives need not comment.

  • westingham@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    28 minutes ago

    YouTube Premium. No ads and the creators I watch get paid more.

    Yes, I’m aware of all the apps out there that give you the Premium perks without actually paying for it. Here’s the thing: the VAST majority of my watching is done on my TV via an Apple TV and I really CBA to go through all the hoops to make any of those apps work with my setup.

    I don’t watch any other streaming services and I don’t watch cable / network TV. I’m okay paying for Premium to get the best experience.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      1·
      18 minutes ago

      I pay for that too but I wouldn’t say I’m HAPPY about paying for it. Because I remember when YouTube used to be free and had no ads.

  • mdalin@infosec.pub
    1·
    24 minutes ago

    Mealime.

    Meal planning app. Has a database of hundreds of easy to make, healthy, tasty recipes. Tell it how many people you want to cook for, for how many days. It builds a whole meal plan, adjusts the quantities of all the recipies, builds a shopping list for you, and will even forward the list to Instacart for you if you’re into that.

    It also builds the meal plan based on reducing food waste, so if you have one recipe that uses half an onion, it will automatically find another recipe that uses the other half. You can also define ingredients you don’t like/allergic to and it will avoid recipes that use those.

    MASSIVELY increased the amount of at-home cooking I do by getting rid of all the boring/annoying parts. Kinda like Blue Apron, but you just go buy your own groceries. Best $2 a month I spend.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 hours ago

    Ultimate Guitar. I got a lifetime membership for like 30 bucks over a decade ago and I use that shit all the time. Their pro-tabs are awesome.

      • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Whether you’re just starting or you’re a master shredder, there’s something for you. I haven’t used any of their lessons, as I found them after I’d been playing for a long time, so I can’t attest to the lessons themselves, but going through their options they have a lot of lessons for learning scales and practice exercises, and can build your own library of tabs and lessons so you don’t have to search for the same song over and over while learning or refreshing on it. A lot of the features are free, so even without the membership it’s still a great resource for any guitar player.

        For me, the meat and potatoes is in the tabs library and the pro tabs option that you get with a membership. It lays out the full song in bar format and you can have it play a midi tone version of the song from what’s in the tabs so you can hear the notes and watch the tracker to know exactly where that tone is supposed to land with proper timing. It helps so much more than straight tabs, as you can see and hear where and how the sound structure comes together for things that are hard to translate when you’re just looking at numbers on a page trying to figure how to play those with proper timing and placement, especially for complex things where it’s a million notes in a cluster with nothing to translate timing.

        Like any community tabs archive, not everything is always a correct tablature, but the selection is better than everything else I’ve dug into. I’m not sure what the monthly is, but I see the same lifetime deal I got pop up from time to time.

            • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              42 minutes ago

              picks furiously at a Taylor GS Mini

              I don’t think this is shredding :(

              Haha nah I’m an ancient metalhead, put the ol axe down many years ago, but now the lil one suddenly wants to learn. Thing you shared is gonna do us a real treat, just the thing we needed!

              (Sidenote, this little Taylor is exactly the thing for this, what a lovely little instrument)

  • M137@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 hours ago

    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.

  • Luffy@lemmy.ml
    4·
    13 hours ago

    Email.

    As someone who has been self hosting some stuff and generally aspires to work in IT, it is simply unfeasible to expect services like this for free

    Would it cost me less to host such a server divided by x users? Yes

    Do I have x users I can sustainably service without burning out? No.

    So its either a managed server for like 15€ per month + a bunch of work or a paid email provider, in my case fastmail.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    My domain names and web/email server hosting.

    Not having to worry about all the horrors one is subjected to when they depend on a free service for online presence, email, etc. is worth a great deal to me. Any free service can disappear or kick you off at a whim leaving you with nothing, social media sites and apps come and go (and/or enshittify) while as a consumer of a paid service you not only have a quality of service beyond freebies (privacy, no ads, what I want to put online is exactly what goes online unadulterated, people who want to find or contact me can always do so at my own site on my own terms) you also have consumer protections if things go wrong.

    While I’m not self-hosting my web stuff on my own hardware, the host I use is a small business owned by an old friend and fellow hacker which means I’m not at the mercy of some faceless corporation’s TOS either. My host and I see eye-to-eye on what’s appropriate for me to put out there via her machinery, and she’s also not extrajudicially sharing my private crap with fascist government forces like the big tech monoliths and most free services do.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I won’t say where I rent my servers from so as not to “shill”, but yeah. Good little company run by one old guy, I think. Maybe he has some help, but seems like the rare times I’ve had to contact, it’s probably just him. Totally self-managed, but the prices reflect that and I’ve got a couple of really decent dedicated servers for $25 and $35 per month. Webmin on top and it’s so much better and cheaper than a decade or more ago I was paying $200/mo for equivalent level.

  • sveltecider@lemmy.ca
    1·
    12 hours ago

    Windscribe VPN

    Filen cloud storage

    iCloud 50gb plan (ok I don’t happily pay for this, but I need this)