Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Obsidian Sync
  • YouTube Premium
    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Do you have any decent options for routing a DNS name to a local machine behind NAT? I usually do this with a VPS, but I really don’t like the terms at a lot of VPS services (forced arbitration everywhere).

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yeah, I don’t have access to dynamic DNS because I’m behind a NAT (ISP gives me a 10.x.x.x address). I can pay for a static IP, but I’d really rather not.

          I was hoping there was something like Tailscale where I could forward ports over a VPN and use the VPN host’s IP for my DNS. I can kinda get there with Tailscale’s public DNS, but I can’t use my own (well, I could use a CNAME, but I’d use their certs).

          Anyway, it’s a temporary thing since I should be getting a new municipal fiber connection soon.

        • ahal@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Namecheap supports ddns out of the box too, no additional service required. You just need a cron job that calls their API to update your IP periodically.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      Do you off-site backup as well? I don’t have the kind of money necessary to self host an on network and an off-site backup of my data…