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
  • JyekEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    Do you off-site backup as well? I don’t have the kind of money necessary to self host an on network and an off-site backup of my data…

    • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I used wasabi BackUp service years ago, it was about $50 a month for my 7 TB, and it took over a month to upload the initial back up. Now, I have about five times that much storage used up and there’s no way I would pay $250 a month for that. All stuff I’ve downloaded from Torrents, so if something bad happened I could get it back again. I save all my torrent files so I could re-download them fairly easily. I also run a raid 6 configuration so I can tolerate up to two drives failing before I lose data.

      • JyekEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        RAID is not a backup, NAS is not a backup. Obviously there is no reason to backup readily available torrents but it doesn’t sound like you’re backing up at all. Self hosting data integrity is a much harder task than implied.

        • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          It’s enough data redundancy for me. Did I state it was a discrete backup? No, but it’s not needed.