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I have stopped buying lifetime subscriptions to cloud services unless they pay off within a year or two since you can't guarantee that they'll be honoured. Any longer and you stand to lose too much money.
That’s the biggest reason I use Plex. I bought my lifetime pass over a decade ago, because the cost at the time was only slightly higher than an annual subscription. But luckily, you can run Jellyfin right alongside Plex, so it’s not an either/or situation, and I have Jellyfin ready to go in case Plex makes (more) anti-user moves.
Good advice in general; even contractual fuckery aside, you can't guarantee a company will even still exist this time next year.
The only time it paid off for me was for VPN Unlimited and Plex and even then, I barely use the former and Plex is being enshittified.
Yooo, fellow VPN Unlimited user, how long before they get bought up and we’re in the same boat as these guys 😂
Same is true for any tech thing. Sure, you can buy a perpetual licence for something but if you’re running it on anything but an isolated device then you will at minimum need security updates or the source code to fix it yourself. Same is true for things like console games where eventually the hardware will just die and it may become too expensive to replace it. Even emulation is case-by-case since some games use obscure calls which have no adequate emulation. Software doesn’t exist in isolation. For that, you have to revert to pen, paper and some analog tech.
Do you have a nebula subscription? If yes, what is your opinion of their lifetime tier?
I can't convince myself for the 300 dollar lifetime but do realize i would totally get the hours out of it.
I have a lifetime nebula. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way to it being positive value, but it's such a good service that I don't mind.
I really wish dropout had a lifetime option.
I just have the regular subscription. I wouldn't pay for the lifetime one. I want to support them but I am not confident enough that they'll be around for the long term since video hosting is a hard business to make money from.
I've had a nebula subscription for a couple years, and honestly I don't think the lifetime subscription is worth it. If you can find a deal on a year plan it's crazy cheap, and I don't think nebula is big enough to be certain it'll still be relevant by the time a lifetime plan would pay itself off. Maybe if it got more popular, but its place as a more specialized type of video platform, and especially a subscription based one, makes me a bit doubtful that it'll grow significantly any time soon.
Simplelogin just opened up their lifetime subscription deal. I think I calculated it and it will pay off in 4 or 5 years. I don't think I will get it though since I have proton unlimited already