BurgerBaron

You forgot charging a small fortune for their e-waste boxes. I have the 1819+ and it’s the only device I’ll have ever bought from them. It was reasonably priced at the time.

I try to minimize how many I have. I consider Internet/Phone utilities so not on the list.

Debrid service: Pirate VOD streaming for very cheap hooked to to Stremio which also gets me access to live TV broadcasts. I use Premiumize personally since RealDebrid revealed their true colours under legal threat. Slightly higher price but they’re a package deal with debrid, vpn, cloud storage, couple other things I don’t use.

Amazon: I use their free Prime trials to buy Zeolite cat litter (simply not available within Canada and I think it’s unfortunate because it’s the best and cheapest long term) and then cancel right away so it doesn’t renew. I try to buy from Canadian stores or at least non-USA as much as possible now. They offer free Prime trials aggressively to get people back on month subscriptions even if you cancel all the time. When Prime is active, I redeem all the free games giveaways on Prime Gaming. A shit ton BTW, way more than Epic gives out. Usually they’re keys for GOG and Epic. Some on Amazon’s own client. Heroic Launcher supports all 3. I’m not regularly subbed yet I’ve redeemed 443 games across those three, although that also includes Epic’s own giveaways from their own client which are separate from what Amazon gives away. Will I play any? Yes, a tiny % of them lol. Not a lot of shovelware either. Mainly however, it’s for cat litter :P

HelloFresh: Temporary, learning to cook /w my roommate and fix my shitty diet which caught up to me. Actually saving money because I ate take out and ordered delivery all the time before this. Bad habits. This has been going well.

That’s it. I have 3 but only a Debrid service is a regular.

I have the space for a home gym and built one with used hardware, I agree memberships are a negative experience when you go to cancel them at least where I live.

I don’t stream music besides from my Youtube playlist on ReVanced. Generally I either pirate via rutracker or buy music on Bandcamp as vinyl and/or digital. Buying vinyl gets you the digital release anyways as well quite often. I also stream internet radio. My main is CKUA and roadhome.fm

Also refused to pay for console online play memberships, with one exception where I played the crap out of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe online for 3 months in a row once all the DLC track packs were out, then cancelled again. I stick to PC gaming generally. I don’t think it’s justified for corps to charge for online play and I’ve mostly stuck to my guns on that shit. I made that decision in response to Xbox 360 vs PS3.

I guess we’ll all be some variation of “it depends” lol.

Most stuff wants to continue living and will not risk having a go at us. So really it’s just out hiking that I have to be careful. Not in populated areas. Humans are pretty dangerous on their own though.

There’s Grizzly bears and big cats around here, but pretty rare to see them in the river valley so near the city. I know of a friend who once had a Coyote snatch his puppy and kill it, but that’s about it besides inconsiderate homeowners letting their cats outside. I find a few half eaten house cats every year. It’s further away where I start to take precautions. Moose are territorial as well, worse when a mom. The wolves would probably leave me alone, but they’ve stalked my mother when walking her dog at a campground once which scared her pretty good. However, they probably just wanted to eat the Golden Retriever and still decided not to go for it after she put him back on leash after noticing them.

I’ve never run into a bear, not counting black bears. Carry bear mace and jingly loud stuff. I don’t hike solo. It’s been fine. Spiders and snakes don’t worry me. I’m more worried about ticks here in west Canada and annoying fucking flies that bite you if I visit east Canada.

Can’t speak to the oceans since I live landlocked and don’t really have any desire to visit the coast. Once I traveled to Scotland and walked along an ocean beach in the Highlands. It was covered in the corpses of dead purple jellyfish, pretty gross. That’s my general vibe of the Oceans: Gross water full of brainless alien looking stuff that might kill me or inflict extreme pain. I wouldn’t be at all worried about stuff like Sharks. More so rip tides. I’d rather just not swim in it and feel no draw to.

I don’t play much multiplayer anymore so bigger installs don’t stick around long enough to annoy me. Now, I do wish we had a drop down menu to select different quality packages and language packs from Steam or whatever client. Space waste sometimes. I can’t afford enough VRAM for some of these games to max out texture resolution, and I don’t need every language or redundant c++ / .net redist packages.

It’s pretty minor complaint for me it’s just a longer download.