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What software subscription do you have because you actually want it?

Office 365 and xBox live. I like having the latest office software and updates, plus I get a terabyte of cloud storage, and the grandkids and I use xBox live pretty regularly.

One service I WILL be getting rid of is Amazon Prime. They are raising the price for me by $20 when my membership renews. I have found a lot of music is not available on Prime, you need ANOTHER subscription to get popular music. The shipping discounts are not always that great, and I have found more and more that their prices are not always the best deal. I used to go straight to Amazon to get the best price. Not anymore. I start with a Google search and go from there.

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Zenithal said:
Amazon offers 1 TB storage for $60/yr, repeating. Or you could be like me and build out a 50 TB NAS.
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$60 a year seems high. With Office365 I pay $99 a year for the latest Office software AND get I 1TB of cloud storage. I also use a NAS for media.
 
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bopajuice said:
Office 365 and xBox live. I like having the latest office software and updates, plus I get a terabyte of cloud storage, and the grandkids and I use xBox live pretty regularly.
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$60 a year seems high. With Office365 I pay $99 a year for the latest Office software AND get I 1TB of cloud storage. I also use a NAS for media.
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That's not bad. Though I'm not a fan of OneDrive for its slow speeds and spying, and termination of accounts even for vulgar text. Besides, as a Prime member, photos don't count against my storage. Videos, documents, software does.

There's also the issue of Microsoft already offering a basic version of Office products online, though they're hidden away. You can also only get that 1 TB OneDrive if you opt in for Office 365. You're also overpaying by about $30 or are on legacy payment.
 
Only ones I subscribed to are one that alway have been such as Netflix, Hulu etc. if they weren’t and moved to the subscription model they’ve been dumped.
 
bopajuice said:
Spying and vulgar text? Please share.
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https://www.csoonline.com/article/3...rom-skype-xbox-office-and-other-services.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyc...rosoft-spying-on-skydrive-users/#58ab719d339c

Microsoft employs optical tech to read text from photos and analyze objects in photos. It's a bit difficult to grab more stories because the service has gone through a few name changes. The service, when I used it, tended to trigger issues if I uploaded an encrypted RAR or ZIP file, as well. Amazon hasn't given me issues with encrypted files in the years I've used their service. Not once. Not to mention that I can download at full connection speed whereas I'm limited through 5-10 MB/s through OneDrive, even if I'm using a download manager with 32 simultaneous connections.

When you're redownloading your kids' birthday photos and videos for the umpteenth time because you can't remember where you put the BluRay disc, the difference between 10 MB/s and about 60 MB/s for a 10-20 GB file is huge, or to quote the Tang Orangutan himself, YUGE!
 
Zenithal said:
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3...rom-skype-xbox-office-and-other-services.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyc...rosoft-spying-on-skydrive-users/#58ab719d339c

Microsoft employs optical tech to read text from photos and analyze objects in photos. It's a bit difficult to grab more stories because the service has gone through a few name changes. The service, when I used it, tended to trigger issues if I uploaded an encrypted RAR or ZIP file, as well. Amazon hasn't given me issues with encrypted files in the years I've used their service. Not once. Not to mention that I can download at full connection speed whereas I'm limited through 5-10 MB/s through OneDrive, even if I'm using a download manager with 32 simultaneous connections.

When you're redownloading your kids' birthday photos and videos for the umpteenth time because you can't remember where you put the BluRay disc, the difference between 10 MB/s and about 60 MB/s for a 10-20 GB file is huge, or to quote the Tang Orangutan himself, YUGE!
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Thanks for the info. I am not too concerned about metadata. Most of what I store is documents and video related to work. I like the idea of syncing between my laptop and desktop using the OneDrive App, and having a copy on OneDrive itself in case one of my computers fail. But whatever works I guess. I do agree, uploading and syncing can take a long time.
 
bopajuice said:
Thanks for the info. I am not too concerned about metadata. Most of what I store is documents and video related to work. I like the idea of syncing between my laptop and desktop using the OneDrive App, and having a copy on OneDrive itself in case one of my computers fail. But whatever works I guess. I do agree, uploading and syncing can take a long time.
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It isn't about metadata. I don't care about that. It's their ability to suspend/terminate an account based on what their auto scanner picks up. Drop one too many F-bombs in document and you may get a warning that you've broken the ToS. The fact that OneDrive isn't keen on encrypted archives or text-documents is concerning. This is why I prefer Amazon. They don't care that the file is encrypted. They also don't go willy-nilly and delete files on their own because of a bug.

In my own experience, I found Office 365 and Office 2016 to be buggy. Speaking from a financial POV, a set version of Office is all you need in certain industry sectors. You can get corporate volume licensing on just about anything you want once Microsoft assigns a rep to you. We've got some machines still on Office 2010 and most on 2013. We'll upgrade to 2013 in the coming years, and then 2016 once it mature, then move onto 2019 in a long time from now.

I can't speak for other sectors, but stability and not having bat-**** crazy file backup is nice. Cost is relatively the same per seat/license.

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB is also pretty rad. Newness of Windows 10 without the melodramatic ********. Microsoft is willing to do anything it takes to keep you on as a corporate/large biz customer, provided you're willing to pay for it.
 
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I subscribe to the following apps

1Password - Excellent password manager (and more) $36 year
Newton Mail - Best email app I have ever used $40 year
Ulysses - Excellent writing app $34 year
PIA and NordVPN - A must have for my iPhones and iMac $75 - $99 for 3 year
MLB - Gotta have baseball $120 year
Newsify - Excellent news reader that is a pleasure to read $35? year
Carrot Weather - Excellent weather app for Apple Watch - forget how much
Apple Music $10 month
BackBlaze - Online backup for my iMac $60 year
Amazon $69 year
OnStar $200 for Guidance Package year
Sirius XM All Access - $115 year
Directv Now - $40 a month

I think that is everything lol
 
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1Password - love it on all devices
Evernote - will prolly drop
ToDoist - good and cross platform
Dropbox - can't live without it
Flickr - meh
PIA - may be shopping for another
 
I'm stubbornly holding on to Lightroom 6 and Photoshop 6, and don't see any reason to change.

My next camera upgrade is likely a Nikon D850, but that's easily a few years off(when they start hitting the used market). Adobe's last update a few months ago added RAW support for the D850, although they said "that's it."

As of now, Lightroom 6 supports every Nikon DSLR made since 1999(yes, I was crunching D1 .nefs on it last week) and that's good enough for me. I'm likely 2-3 years at a minimum away from a D850, and will easily use it for 5+ years after that. I'll cross the bridge of CC when I get there...
 
bunnspecial said:
I'm stubbornly holding on to Lightroom 6 and Photoshop 6, and don't see any reason to change.

My next camera upgrade is likely a Nikon D850, but that's easily a few years off(when they start hitting the used market). Adobe's last update a few months ago added RAW support for the D850, although they said "that's it."

As of now, Lightroom 6 supports every Nikon DSLR made since 1999(yes, I was crunching D1 .nefs on it last week) and that's good enough for me. I'm likely 2-3 years at a minimum away from a D850, and will easily use it for 5+ years after that. I'll cross the bridge of CC when I get there...
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I've been holding out for the last couple of years, but didn't ever have PS.
But I got a free 2 months with a HD purchase, so I've switched now.
I hate subscribing but unfortunately it's the future. I suspect everything will go that way in the future :(
 
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