Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Obsidian Sync
- YouTube Premium
Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:
Oh I use a VPN 24/7 and wouldn’t have it any other way (even though I also don’t think it’s strictly necessary), but I already have a provider that I trust, is fast and cost only like <$3/month I think.
I’m thinking of trying Proton Pass for free which I think you can do, but the main attraction is to get away from the Google suite and incorporate a more privacy focused one. Having a calendar, generating unlimited email aliases to store in the password manager etc.
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Yeah, I don’t think Proton would be my go-to choice for VPN when it comes to privacy. I’ve heard stuff about them actually keeping logs. In that case I’d be more interested in Mullvad since they just run their service on RAM. I did give the Proton VPN a spin, and at least as far as speeds go, it’s pretty fast. They give you a notice if you use the “Secure Core” feature, stating that the connection speed might end up being a bit slow, but it still seems to reach the cap of my wifi (500mbit) so it honestly isn’t that bad. So for streaming region locked stuff it seems to do the job. “Secure Core” as far as I can tell, just tunnels your connection through several nodes, I’m not well versed enough on networking to know how that could possibly improve security, because to me it sounds like adding more points of failure.
I do really like the email service and the password manager, and I’m sure I’ll get some use from the drive as well at some point. When signing up for things, the password manager automatically suggests masking your email. Would’ve killed for something like that ten years ago; my gmail account is flooded with useless BS that it’s nice to finally move away from it.