Nebula. It’s a video streaming service that is ad free and directly supports the creators.

https://nebula.tv/

Um subscription to what? Is none an ok answer?

A bus pass maybe, that way you can just get on and not have to fumble around paying the fare when you board.

A reputable VPN, preferably with port forwarding (I use AirVPN, $5/mo and I have no problems with it.)

A Usenet provider and indexer (Newshosting is reasonable; nzbgeek offers a lifetime subscription)

Paying the subscription for The Great Courses is absolutely insane value if its something you use regularly. Its not a credit system like Audible, its literally unlimited streaming of university level courses for 20$ a month (or like 12$ if you pay annually). The individual courses can cost upwards of 100$ so even if you only take one course every two months you still haven’t lost money.

It’s infinite learning, i cant shill hard enough.

YouTube Premium. I watch a lot of content on YT. I work from home and will generally have something on in the background while I work, so I’m easily consuming 10+ hours of content a day. It’s honestly worth it for me, if for nothing else than to avoid the cat-and-mouse hellscape of adblocking. I’d rather pay $25 each month and have everyone in my family have an ad-free experience on all their devices no matter where they are or what network they’re using, than having to help them troubleshoot browser extensions and DNS settings and PiHoles and all that.

Edit: Absolutely insane that people are upset that I pay for a service I make use out of, lmao

Proton Mail. High quality mail service where they don’t mine your emails for data to sell. It’s like 4-5 bucks a month depending on how you pay and it’s been worth every penny.

Having your own domain is pretty cool, even if it’s just a single page with some text and links to social media profiles.

PBS, specifically the Passport that you can get through your local PBS. You get tons of content and you support public broadcasting

public library

here the subscription fee for one year is about as expensive as a single book.

Your highest quality local newspaper (includes online).

I have two:

• di.fm for all your electronic genres music needs (with bonus rock, classical and jazz streams).
• Kagi for a search engine that actually tries to give you proper results.

• A privacy-respecting mail service: I use mailbox.org since it follows email standards, but I think many ppl like Proton mail/Tutanota. Recommend because they are privacy-respecting, and self-hosting email is way too difficult
• More of a yearly subscription per-se, but a personal domain from any domain registrar. Recommend because why not? There are so many cool things one can do with a domain: custom email, your own blog, professional website for job, …
• A VPS from Linode (or any reliable provider). Recommend because some things are better done on a VPS… and I want a public-facing IP that is not directly from my bedroom
• I used to have subscriptions to the local arcade. Recommend because I basically get cardio workout on the DDR machine (and it costs less than a gym. And easier to cancel)

http://404media.co

Outstanding journalism from four independently-minded journalists doing their own thing.

Volumio - Multiroom audio service. You install the os on a pi and hook up some speakers. The basic streamer is free for local files on a single device at a time. I paid $200 for a lifetime pass a few years ago. That gets you multiroom synced audio like Sonos and lets you add in streaming services.

Qobuz - Music streaming service. Much higher quality than Spotify, no shitty MQA like Tidal. They will have articles diving into a genre, band or record label with links to notable albums. It’s “station” playlists and similar artist recommendations are garbage but I’m more of an album person.