In fairness, it is the additional private health insurance on top of the French government’s public care. It’s not the most expensive option but we rarely pay out of pocket for anything medical (the odd non-compulsory baby vaccine, for example, might sting us 80 euros or so). Of course, a part of my business and personal tax goes to support the public side of the healthcare, but nothing like $2400 per month.
Wow, that's pretty good value. in Germany it's a lot higher unfortunately. I'm on the public health insurance which costs around €800 p.m - my company pays half.
Servers at DigitalOcean $2500 per month.
Paypal: Our last transfer to our bank account cost $1000 because PayPal takes a currency conversion fee of 3% from USD to SEK (that's in addition to the transaction fee)
Intercom.io: ~$200 for the support package. Using the messaging automation would be ~$3000 per month...
We have Wise and used this as a workaround like you described. However, Paypal recently ”fixed” this loophole by charging 3% on USD to USD transfers. It’s insane.
We have Wise and used this as a workaround like you described. However, Paypal recently ”fixed” this loophole by charging 3% on USD to USD transfers. It’s insane. Have you found a way around this?
No and yes. We have a couple of thousand subscription customers using Paypal, which is a pain to switch. It's forcing us to look into other payment providers (like Stripe, which so far, doesn't appear to be evil like Paypal)
My employer provides a MSDN subscription and a seemingly complete set of Jetbrains products.
We're a very cloud-skeptic company making chips and associated software, so the rest of our stuff - Jira, Artifactory, Gerrit, Confluence etc - is all on-prem.
Obsidian publish and sync ($144/year), IntelliJ pack (£119/year), Dropbox (~£80/year)
Possibly another (£200/year) in misc stuff (sr.ht, newsblur, bitwarden, todoist, fastmail, etc)
EDIT: I'm only including "work-related" expenses and not things that are pretty common, ISP, utilities, etc. It is debatable if I should include pet insurance, since I WFH and my cats are essential for my work environment :)
most expensive: a tool used for regulating exposure to local environmental weather conditions & providing access to fresh water, multiple energy sources (usage billed separately), waste disposal, storage, some degree of sound isolation, privacy and physical security. very handy. costs around AUD 10k annual subscription. don't leave home without one!
1: required health insurance: €120/month but I get 100 euro from the government so €20/month 2: a server at DigitalOcean: €5/month and domain names at TransIP €3.65/month 3: prepaid phone bill (€10 to €15)/year
In general I just don't like subscriptions. I prefer to pay only for things I use.
Do you mind asking me what kind of cloud you are storing?
I've tried deploying a Nextcloud instance via Docker-Compose to a Free Tier EC2 on AWS and found the CPU to spike randomly to 100% and require a machine restart to free up.
I'm a noob at docker, so it might be a configuration issue on my part, but it's pretty bare and I can't figure out if it's a docker thing or a machine performance thing.
If it's a machine performance thing, I'd be willing to pay to scale up, but I was wondering if I could have your thoughts on this. Thank you.
Details vary a lot depending on where we are every year and what exactly breaks on the boat or gets upgraded. That year we anchored in Greece for the summer and spent winter in a Sicilian marina with a good discount.
I don’t think power consumption on Dishy is coming down considering it’s throwing bits to low earth orbits constantly with microwaves.
I have enough solar and batteries on my boat to continually power the ground station, but if I didn’t I’d operate it only when actively using the Internet.
Getting something free from work technically counts; at the same time I guess you’re earning less or missing out on other perks (other jobs might offer different perks or higher salary); the SAAS company still gets paid by your employer, so you might be still indirectly supporting them.
Out of all the things you mentioned, a political party membership is the only one I wouldn't pay for. May I ask what value you get out of being a paid member?
- More money from fees = better political campaigns = more voters = larger representation in Parliament/Congress = ability to change the Law(country, county or City wide). This is very rewarding - and much better than just moaning about politicians!
- Large "instant" social network of people who shares the same values as you do! (We have a lot of internal messaging tools and forums.)
- There is a lot of members who are lawyers, doctors, accountants, barbers etc. - so its easy to get some occasional help for free or with discount.
- You can literally change the world. For example you start some loose discussion on Discord or Slack let's say about homeless people: and half year later, after various meetings and internal votes our senators/MPs can actually make such proposal to Parliment/Congress. It is VERY rewarding.
- A lot of introverts inside of party, as it attracts mostly high IQ people, so it is possible to find company to play chess, computers games, board games or real life sports etc.
- You can actually TALK to politicians that you see in TV. Or have beer with them.
- You can argue, or give your own ideas about something - at it WILL be taken in account(internal voting even at lowest levels).
- You can say: "At least I tried to DO something!"
The "free stack" you are using is partly only free because someone else is paying for it (your employer/IBM...) - so they actually are subscriptions in my eyes.
(slightly off topic: Germany tax authorities would see it similarly: The benefits you get from work could be called "monetary benefits" in Germany and the value added to your income for taxing purposes.)
Yeah I'd be curious what both your and parent's use cases are that could possibly be covered by other smaller, existing maps services, or if there is some market that remains underserved.
Car: fully paid, but still 1500 €/year for insurance, 500 €/year in taxes and ~2500 €/year for gas. But I love it, it's a necessity to go to work, but also a pleasure to drive.
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- Health Insurance for family of four: €118 - Accountant: €99 - Apple One Subscription: €19.95
Ah yeah, I pay €120/month for my accountant too. I should have add that in the list as well
That is a bit cheaper than my $2,400/mo for a family of 3 (of which my employer pays 50%).
I miss the UK health system.
2. Domain names $50/year
3. Lenovo yoga c920 $400/year
We're a very cloud-skeptic company making chips and associated software, so the rest of our stuff - Jira, Artifactory, Gerrit, Confluence etc - is all on-prem.
Possibly another (£200/year) in misc stuff (sr.ht, newsblur, bitwarden, todoist, fastmail, etc)
EDIT: I'm only including "work-related" expenses and not things that are pretty common, ISP, utilities, etc. It is debatable if I should include pet insurance, since I WFH and my cats are essential for my work environment :)
In general I just don't like subscriptions. I prefer to pay only for things I use.
2. Zapier $30/month
3. Probably Airtable ($24/month), though I'm slowly moving away.
They're pricey, but from what I've seen online they're a bit less shady than IFTTT.
2. domains around 100$ year
3. Backblaze personal backup 60$ year.
Working on 2011 Mac Mini in Macvim, cheap and works perfectly fine.
I mentioned fun part, and will skip mentioning health insurance, car etc.
Datadog is expensive and slow to improve - but there wern't any much-better alternatives when we deployed.
1.) DigitalOcean Droplet with backup, 15CHF/month (hosts my cloud, several small containers)
2.) IDE (Intellij), 14 CHF/month
2.) Mindmapping tool (miro.com), 14CHF/month
3.) Webhosting (cyon.ch), 12CHF/month
4.) Budgeting (ynab.com), 6CHF/month
5.) Backup Storage (wasabi.com), 5 CHF/month
I've tried deploying a Nextcloud instance via Docker-Compose to a Free Tier EC2 on AWS and found the CPU to spike randomly to 100% and require a machine restart to free up.
I'm a noob at docker, so it might be a configuration issue on my part, but it's pretty bare and I can't figure out if it's a docker thing or a machine performance thing.
If it's a machine performance thing, I'd be willing to pay to scale up, but I was wondering if I could have your thoughts on this. Thank you.
- traefik as reverse proxy and for https termination
- nextcloud (the apache based container)
- statping
- matomo
- small things if needed
This runs on a 10$/month basic droplet + backup
Annually (last year): Boat maintenance/upgrades €2547, Food €2333, Marina fees (mostly in winter) €1335, Fuel €900, Cruising fees €664, Shorepower €350, Entertainment €240, theoldreader.com subscription €17.
Details vary a lot depending on where we are every year and what exactly breaks on the boat or gets upgraded. That year we anchored in Greece for the summer and spent winter in a Sicilian marina with a good discount.
I have enough solar and batteries on my boat to continually power the ground station, but if I didn’t I’d operate it only when actively using the Internet.
I watched the sv delos video and was like... how do I make this my life?
https://svdelos.com/
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1382842277719003136
My free stack:
- Comms: Free "work" phone with unlimited everything, and free unlimited LTE/5G "work" modem.
- Music: Free Tidal from work + my own ripped MP3s.
- Software hacking: free virtual machines running at Oracle Cloud(and some services at IBM cloud).
- IDE: IntelliJ Community Edition and NetBeans 12
Only real monthly "subscription" is:
- 15$ monthly "membership fee" for my political party.
- More money from fees = better political campaigns = more voters = larger representation in Parliament/Congress = ability to change the Law(country, county or City wide). This is very rewarding - and much better than just moaning about politicians!
- Large "instant" social network of people who shares the same values as you do! (We have a lot of internal messaging tools and forums.)
- There is a lot of members who are lawyers, doctors, accountants, barbers etc. - so its easy to get some occasional help for free or with discount.
- You can literally change the world. For example you start some loose discussion on Discord or Slack let's say about homeless people: and half year later, after various meetings and internal votes our senators/MPs can actually make such proposal to Parliment/Congress. It is VERY rewarding.
- A lot of introverts inside of party, as it attracts mostly high IQ people, so it is possible to find company to play chess, computers games, board games or real life sports etc.
- You can actually TALK to politicians that you see in TV. Or have beer with them.
- You can argue, or give your own ideas about something - at it WILL be taken in account(internal voting even at lowest levels).
- You can say: "At least I tried to DO something!"
May I ask what the country is? I am guessing that is somewhere in Northern Europe.
Care to explain how you replaced Google?
We build a service calculating those but have trouble getting the data.
It is more of a nice gimmick for us. Since the pricing changes using Google maps apis is just prohibitively expensive.
There are other companies providing the data but those too are somewhat costly.
Maybe we should use open street map as a data source.
Electricity: 85 €/month
Internet access: 27.5 €/month
1500 / year in insurance! 500 / year in taxes! Wow ...
I pay $12 / month in car insurance, and $130 / year for registration (taxes).
I'm 27 and to insure a hypothetical 2019 Honda Civic it would cost me $280/mo in NYC.
It was ~$110 to get my license so presumably registration would be similarly very high. It was closer to ~$30 in New Jersey.
My truck is 20 years, though.
1. Health insurance 440 USD/mo
2. 280 USD/mo for the membership at barbelllogic online coaching
3. root server 70 USD/mo
Cellular family plan: $200/mo
Gigabit Internet at home: $100/mo
2. $2.5k - WeWork private office
3. $250 - CircleCI
You are free of course to watch your own children yourself. It is after all, your responsibility.