The protocol is basically irrelevant. It’s about the user population and their dependence on particular hosts.

I forget who said “my family could only afford two bean salad”.

Brother HL-2270DW, $60 on craigslist, still lots of them out there.

I hadn’t thought of those as subscriptions but I just use cheap VPS instead of a VPN vendor. Also I wouldn’t use Protonmail especially since the recent incident where they (temporarily) booted some journalist email accounts. But I’m happy with fastmail, which tbh is on the expensive side.

I also have a cheap MVNO cell phone plan and I guess that is worth it since I do use the phone. My home internet is definitely not worth it though, and I should get rid of it.

It’s a trick question. They’re basically never worth it.

One of the programmers where I worked left the project to do other things. So our project lead opened a bug ticket in our public tracker to find a replacement. Sure enough, we got some candidates that way.