Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services?

An anonymous reader writes: What are some subscriptions services that you are paying for and love to pay? Please include music/movie services, news outlets, software, and courses.

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amazon prime

[maliqua]

Amazon prime is like 'fast china' you can buy something for $4 you pay $4 and $4 only then it shows up at your door

Linux Weekly News

[Anonymous Coward]

LWN is an invaluable resource for keeping track of Linux kernel development.

https://lwn.net/

Audible is my jam

[Coldeagle]

Audible is my favorite service, I've been an audible customer for over a dozen years and have over 800 books in my audible library. They're the ones I can't do without.

I also subscribe to Hulu, Netflix, Playstation Vue (cable replacement), HBO Now, and Amazon Prime (also use it for add free music, their free version of music has a pretty wide selection, you don't have to pay extra).

I spend 5x the effort of paying for subscriptions

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

I probably spend about 5x the effort of paying for subscriptions finding ways around them. The intellectual reward is worth the extra time - it's like a real-world puzzle. With the glut of entertainment available today, the thrill of unlocking a [game]/[show] /[book] seems to make it worth consuming.

Private Eye

[coastwalker]

In the UK Private Eye is not just entertaining but it holds to account our masters.

Huh?

[aquabat]

Loving a service is one thing, but if you love paying the bill, there's something seriously wrong with you. (No offence).

Re:GitHub

[Luthair]

Or you could just use BitBucket for free.

Everyone rents their house

[Weaselmancer]

Property tax.

You have to pay it every year, and if you don't the government will throw you out of your house and sell it to pay off your tax debt. They can call it a tax all they want, but it's rent. The dynamic is exactly the same. Pay a recurring sum without end or be evicted. Rent.

Everyone in the US is renting their home from the government.

Re:Everyone rents their house

[31415926535897]

You totally missed the point of the GP. This is not about quantity at all. It doesn't matter if the government wants $2 or $2 million. If you don't pay it, they take your property and kick you out just like a landlord would. It's a perfectly appropriate analogy.

Personally, I'm not inherently opposed to property tax, though I would much rather see services paid for a different way if possible. They really NEED to codify a hard cap for property tax percentage. The part about property tax that bothers me is that they are willing to ratchet up the percentage to laughable levels. When I was a child, it would take 100+ years to pay in property taxes what the value of the property was (1%). Now we're at a level of about 30-35 years (~3%). Nobody cared when home values were rising exponentially. But now that prices have stabilized in most places, it seems absurd that the government can take an increasingly large slice of your assets, and they need to precisely because home values aren't going up, yet they need more and more revenue. At some point, owning a property becomes a liability (what if the government taxed at 10%, or 25%?). My math says we're really close to that tipping point (approximately 3.5%), where the value taken by taxes harms the value of the home more than the services they're paying for.

We need to pay for schools and roads and parks and libraries, but paying for those through property taxes makes us serfs of the state. Even though yours is $2k/year, you are still under serfdom, it's just a lighter load.

Crunchyroll

[smallmj]

Crunchyroll, for the huge library of subtitled Anime.