• SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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    40 minutes ago

    My proton account costs less than $80/yr.

    That’s less than $7/mo.

    Considering a person can easily pay $45/mo for multiple services, I’m already ahead.

    You know, once I break even on all of the storage and network equipment I bought for the home lab. Two years . Three, tops. I shouldn’t need to buy any more storage for a long long…

    How have I already used 16TB?

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I might be a unique form of grump: I recognize we get gypped by modern streaming services, but I still appreciate that the internet gave us greater breadth of choice than old cable options.

    There’s indie and foreign streaming services that cost a lot less than the Netflix oligopoly, yet people never even seem to look for those, and just turn to piracy as their form of protest. “I can’t live without this show, and so I’ll give these services my vote of confidence, as well as political ammunition to enact higher levels of internet traffic spying!” What a genius self-serving plan.