• @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    218 months ago

    I was going to buy premium then I saw the price. It’s like 14 a month, 24 for family, per month. To add on top of that, every subscription service has been increasing prices so in a few years it’s probably going to be 20/30 dollars a month. Additionally, I already pay Google for 2 TB drive space for personal for 11 dollars a month and 13 dollars a month for a company workspace with one user. So why would I pay 24 more dollars to Google, and 30 dollars down the road?

    Honestly, if Protonmail had better prices I’d likely switch but right now a more expensive service for fewer features isn’t what I am going for. It’s currently 30 dollars a month for only 3TB. I get 2 TB for just 11 dollars, family is free. Not to mention switching the whole family is a whole conversation and getting it to work on everyone’s device is a headache with any service. As much as I would want to degoogle, I use Android, I use Google Voice, and I likely am not going to switch those. It’s not really going to help me untie from Google and would just cause me headaches.

    • sacredbirdman
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      38 months ago

      I use Hetzner’s Storage Share (which is a nextcloud instance) as my drive and pay around 5€ / mo for 1 TB. Depending on the features you want you could also use their Storage Box which is more like a plain network drive, and cheaper… like 13€ / mo for 5 TB.

      • @zzzzz@beehaw.org
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        18 months ago

        Why not just get the storage box and run the Nextcloud instance with the storage box mounted? Just curious.

        • sacredbirdman
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          28 months ago

          You should be able to do that, you’d just need to set up and maintain the Nextcloud instance yourself :)

    • @Salvo@aussie.zone
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      38 months ago

      I could justify the AU$30 per month for myself and my housemate, but at AU$43, they can GAGTGF.

      • @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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        68 months ago

        GAGTGF?
        I have no idea what this means, but I feel like it’s probably something I’d like in my back pocket to pull out and throw in someone’s face…kinda like pocket sand.

        • @Salvo@aussie.zone
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          38 months ago

          GAGYGF is Go And Get Your Guts F… GAGTGF substitutes “Your” for “Their”. “GagyGoof” does roll off the tongue a bit better than “GagTeeGoof”.

        • @blindsight@beehaw.org
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          38 months ago

          I tried to take a stab at it, but I’m coming up empty.

          Go And Get Totally Gang Fucked
          Get A Grip To Get Fucked
          Give A Gummer Then Get Fucked

    • Dept
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      28 months ago

      damn here in Egypt it’s a dollar a month for students or 2 for others. even with the purchasing power difference its a pretty good deal