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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:10 ] |
| Post subject: | It all adds up! |
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! |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Spotify Netflix Amazon Prime A totally legit subscription to a newsgroup provider I think that might be it? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:13 ] |
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Prices, Cras! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:16 ] |
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Cras wrote: I think that might be it? PSN? |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:22 ] |
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Cras wrote: Spotify Netflix Amazon Prime A totally legit subscription to a newsgroup provider 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. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
£30 a month for giganews? I pay about £7 a quarter for my newsgroups access |
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:25 ] |
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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 |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
£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. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Grim... wrote: £12 YouTube Premium That's two different streaming music providers and three different cloud storage providers £15 Spotify Family £8 Dropbox £1.59 Google Drive £7.99 Office 365 
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| Author: | devilman [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
£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 |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: £15 for Spotify Family, £10 for Netflix 4K, £6.58 for Amazon Prime, $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. Nest camera cloud storage - £8/mo Apple iCloud storage -- £0.80 Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom & 1 TB storage - £20/mo Call it £100/mo. |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:32 ] |
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Err, Spotify, Netflix, amazon prime, teamspeak server, ps+ And most importantly, of course £2 - World of Stuart forum subscription |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: £15 for Spotify Family, £10 for Netflix 4K, £6.58 for Amazon Prime, $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. Nest camera cloud storage - £8/mo Apple iCloud storage -- £0.80 Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom & 1 TB storage - £20/mo Call it £100/mo. Christ -- Backblaze for 2 computers - £6.50 £107/mo |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
So, all your phones are free? |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:37 ] |
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DBSnappa wrote: So, all your phones are free? All of mine are
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
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. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: DBSnappa wrote: So, all your phones are free? All of mine are I figured you would be |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Also, you might note that I've not included any "web" stuff, no servers, no domain names. Fuck adding that lot up. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Grim... wrote: 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 |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Grim... wrote: £12 YouTube Premium That's two different streaming music providers and three different cloud storage providers £15 Spotify Family £8 Dropbox £1.59 Google Drive £7.99 Office 365 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. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
DBSnappa wrote: Grim... wrote: 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 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. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Grim... wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Grim... wrote: £12 YouTube Premium That's two different streaming music providers and three different cloud storage providers £15 Spotify Family £8 Dropbox £1.59 Google Drive £7.99 Office 365 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 - 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. 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. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
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 |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
devilman wrote: Grim... wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Grim... wrote: £12 YouTube Premium That's two different streaming music providers and three different cloud storage providers £15 Spotify Family £8 Dropbox £1.59 Google Drive £7.99 Office 365 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 - 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. 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. Hmm, yeah I've got 1TB of OneDrive storage. I shall investigate photo syncing from my phone. Thanks! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
DavPaz wrote: £30 a month for giganews? I pay about £7 a quarter for my newsgroups access You do? Who with? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
I've cancelled my Humble Monthly Bundle! Look at me go! |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:06 ] |
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Grim... wrote: I've cancelled my Humble Monthly Bundle! Look at me go! I was going to ask when you last played a game from it 
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Grim... wrote: Does the Google Drive PC app sync your photos? If so I could probably ditch the paid version of DropBox. Yes: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6093613
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Grim... wrote: I've cancelled my Humble Monthly Bundle! Look at me go! I was going to ask when you last played a game from it 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. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:09 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Grim... wrote: Does the Google Drive PC app sync your photos? If so I could probably ditch the paid version of DropBox. Yes: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6093613They only give me 100GB of storage though so pffft. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
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. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Grim... wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Grim... wrote: Does the Google Drive PC app sync your photos? If so I could probably ditch the paid version of DropBox. Yes: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6093613They only give me 100GB of storage though so pffft. It'll get cheaper when Google One launches in the UK: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/14/1735 ... ns-cheaper |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
£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. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Grim... wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Grim... wrote: Does the Google Drive PC app sync your photos? If so I could probably ditch the paid version of DropBox. Yes: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6093613They only give me 100GB of storage though so pffft. Unlimited for photos, no? |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:20 ] |
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Cras wrote: Grim... wrote: They only give me 100GB of storage though so pffft. Unlimited for photos, no? |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
If it downsampled using just random pixel interpolation, I think I could only improve them. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
What does it downscale to, come to think of it? |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Grim... wrote: DavPaz wrote: £30 a month for giganews? I pay about £7 a quarter for my newsgroups access You do? Who with? 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. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
Cras wrote: What does it downscale to, come to think of it? 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. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
DavPaz wrote: I am limited to 1.5MB/s at that price, but that's not a problem for me. What is this, a usenet subscription for ants?! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds up! |
1.5MB or Mb? The former's not too bad. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:28 ] |
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Grim... wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:34 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Grim... wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:39 ] |
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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 |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:54 ] |
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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.) |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 13:11 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 13:36 ] |
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Cras wrote: Spotify Netflix Amazon Prime A totally legit subscription to a newsgroup provider I think that might be it? Do you still have that lock up?
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| Author: | Jem [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 13:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It all adds 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. |
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| Author: | Jem [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 13:54 ] |
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Oh, and I also have a bucket of domains and hosting but I don't like tallying those up because it's scary! |
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| Author: | Findus Fop [ Mon Nov 12, 2018 13:58 ] |
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Jem wrote: Deodorant subscription 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. |
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