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1Password |
So much better than what I had before. Couldn’t live without this |
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Bear Pro |
I gave Apple Notes and Obsidian a go, and they’re both terrible compared to Bear. |
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❤️ |
Carrot Weather |
I love the Apple Watch complications |
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Day One Premium |
Love that it’s always with me! I am much more consistent about capturing my thoughts since I can do it in the moment. |
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❤️ |
Flighty Pro |
(Family plan) Sort of like Flight Aware, but actually fun to use |
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❤️ |
Life360 Driver Protect |
Use mostly for the peace of mind from the accident detection feature, but also nice to have a 30-second warning when someone is about to arrive at home 😆 |
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Proton VPN |
(New for 2025) Because sometimes you need VPN |
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Tapestry |
Trying to get my RSS feeds in order |
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| Cloud/App Bundles |
💎 |
Apple One Premier |
😄iCloud+, 😄TV+, 😄Music, 😞News, 😐Fitness+, 🥱Arcade |
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Microsoft 365 Family |
Includes the Microsoft Office apps, which is fine, but I use mostly for the combined 6 terabytes of included cloud storage |
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| Ham Radio |
🙂 |
eQSL Bronze member |
Used by radio amateurs for exchanging digital QSL cards |
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🙂 |
QRZ.com |
Used by radio amateurs worldwide for digital logging, home page hosting, and discussion forum |
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| Hosting |
💎 |
Amazon Web Services |
Cloud Storage, Web automation |
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🙂 |
EchoFeed |
Cross-posting syndication engine, but not really using it right now so might drop it |
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💎 |
Fastmail |
It’s how my family communicates and collaborates. |
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Flickr |
Photo sharing |
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💎 |
Nest Aware |
Video recording subscription for Nest cams |
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🙂 |
NextDNS |
Ad-blocking DNS service |
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💎 |
OMG.lol |
Adam’s creation made being online fun again! Includes weblog hosting and Mastodon instance |
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💎 |
Porkbun |
Not really a subscription per se, but my eight domains are, and I’m really happy with Porkbun |
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❤️ |
Umami |
I can monitor up to three sites on the free “Hobby” tier. |
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| Learning |
❤️ |
News in Slow Spanish |
Great resource for learning the language and growing vocabulary |
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| News and Information |
❤️ |
Mexico News Daily |
Comprehensive English-language news and information on Mexico |
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| Shopping |
❤️ |
Amazon Prime |
In a family of four with two in college this is just too good a deal not to take advantage of |
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| Streaming |
🙂 |
AppleTV+ |
included with Apple One Premier (above) |
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Hulu/Max/Disney+ |
Currently on monthly subscription |
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❤️ |
MLS Season Pass |
Free for 2025, compliments of T-Mobile! |
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🆓 |
Netflix |
included with my T-Mobile subscription |
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🙂 |
YouTube Premium Lite |
Because I finally got sick of watching ads on that stupid thing |
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