FOSS enthusiasts, what SaaS do you currently pay for?

Lemmy@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 76 points –

Mine is 100% ChatGPT at the moment

SaaS = Software as a Service (e.g. MullvadVPN)

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ProtonVPN, Google Drive

Why not proton drive?

I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'm guessing it's for Google Photos storage. It's the reason I pay for Google One.

Proton drive will auto backup photos. Google is the last person I want having all my photos. If its features immich is awesome. Self hosted.

Google Drive is HaaS, not SaaS. It's a cloud-based hard drive.

It’s basically the same as Dropbox or OneDrive or Box and those are all SaaS.

I would argue that all are HaaS, not SaaS. There is no software you can install that provides disk space.

I suppose we could think of them as subscription-based alternatives to Samba or some other file server software.

Technically the Docs/Sheets/etc suite would be the SaaS portion of the subscription, but Google Drive is usually accessed as a web interface or app, not as a mounted drive so I think it still counts.