McDonalds. It used to at least be cheap. Now it’s both expensive and still tastes bad.
like 10years ago. they figured that less people are eating it now, and opting for more “better food” like asian ones. or they are more health conscience.
McDonalds? By and large I would not say they have gotten better on the “healthy” front? Or do I not understand?
Subscriptions 🏴☠️
I have one subscription that covers everything!
…it’s a vpn. 🤫
I have a small garden for a hobby and mental health. I spent $30 on 2 bags of fucking DIRT yesterday. What am I doing? Dirt was $30!?!? I guess I can’t even afford dirt anymore. 😭
When someone says something is dirt cheap, I’ll remember this and temper my expectations haha
im very fond of succulents, but i just dont have the time to research all of them. not the “ornamentals” you see in peoples front yards.
Hard drives. I have a movie hobby and that takes a lot of storage and well, storage now is 3-5 times more expensive than not two years ago and I can’t afford it anymore.
But on the flip side, people can now finally nudify my daughter, so that is totally worth it!
Fuck everything about AI.
I am waiting patiently for the AI bubble to pop so that all of a sudden there’s an excess supply of ram, gpu’s, drives, etc.
I just had to buy a replacement surveillance 8tb drive for my store, best price I could find was $380. I have to buy it, no option there. But shiiiit that sucked.
Having a spair emergency drive is a good strategy for these moments.
Not at these prices.
Yeah I started on the path of “never buy storage used” to “f it we’ll do it live with smartctl” because even decade old used server drives are triple in price.
It’s so bad I’m genuinely looking at storage pool solutions like stratis which lets you mix and match drive sizes without reducing the total size.
Concerts.
In the 90s youd go to the record store that had a ticket kiosk. Tickets were 10 to 20 dollars, youd get a printed ticket.
Now it just sucks. Venues add fees, ticketmaster fees double the price, printing fees, sometimes you cant even get the digital ticket until the day of and hope nithing goes wrong.
It all just sucks now.
I go down to my local dive bar and watch some local guys play rock and blues…for tips.
I’ve not stopped but heavily worked to cut fast food out of my daily meal plan. The cost of most burgers out there I can buy buns, ingredients, and meat to cook myself to how I like it. It’ll be juicier, thicker, and tastier as well.
Burgers?
For the cost of a mcValuer meal with a shake I can literally get a thick, Prime ribeye to cook at home, and steaks are crazy expensive right now. They jumped up more in price than anything at the grocery.
I can easily made a dozen patties for that price if I’m making burgers at home. They’ll be twice as thick, and topped with real cheese too.
The main thing I’ve stopped buying is the lies.
I really can’t afford to many of them. I order 1 or 2 as a treat every once in a while.
Streaming services of any kind. I’ve got a jellyfin server now that has everything I need.
It was fine when they were $5 a month, but this $20 a month bullshit is insane. And what do you mean I can’t share one account with the family if we’re not on the same network, get real.
Do you have any information that could help me understand how to self-host my own music streaming using jellyfin? I’ve been meaning to learn this as I’m over Apple’s last increase.
If you only want to stream music you might be better off setting up Navidrome. !selfhosted@lemmy.world is a good place to look for advice on this stuff.
My family will rotate Steaming services. We sub for a month or two when we wanna see a show or something, then cancel in favor of something else.
yeah, this is the way. i got lectured yesterday buy some weirdo about how doing that is ‘too inconvenient and a massive waste of time’. and then doubled down when I pointed out it takes seconds to do this, and were like ‘it shouldn’t have to take me seconds’. OK buddy… like i guess if you feel you must be subbed to 8 different services at once and forever because you can’t ever cancel or swap, it must be really tough to be you.
I don’t have that problem. I share netflix/HBO with my sister who is across the country with little to no issue.
but we never sub up more than two services at once.
I’m in the US and have to watch a few seconds of something on my phone while connected to the wifi in each location for two houses less than 3 miles apart every single month or it gets signed out of every device at one of the two locations. I only do that ao my daughter can watch shows at two places.
I will most likely cancel this fall after catching up on my backlog. It isn’t the cost that will be the dealbreaker, it is the hassle.
yeah and i have to mfa for my work vpn once a month… that’s pretty standard stuff dude.
you seriously think once a month auth is awful burden you can’t live with?
It is an annoyance for a thing that up to a couple years ago required zero effort and at that time the company promoted sharing accounts. Now they are so against sharing that they penalize people who use more than one wifi network.
I’m not even sharing accounts, just watching it in two places. If I could just mfa once at either location to confirm it wouldn’t be so bad. I have to remember to take action in two places and track it so it doesn’t get cut off in the evening at the other place while I’m going to bed and my kiddo is trying to watch a movie.
Also I’m paying for Netflix. Your job is paying you to do that.
yeah the world changes. nothing stays the same. what seemed like a good idea 5-10 years ago seems utterly stupid today. that’s how life works, including business.
I mean, I get it, 1st world problem of mind inconvenience is a moral outrage. But I don’t own two homes, I can’t possible imagine how difficult and awful it must be to have to manage my netflix account across multiple properties…
oh wait, you could just create a vpn and network your two homes so they appear on the same network! wow… almost as if there is a solution to every problem.
Any streaming service.
It’s not even about the money specifically, if that’s what it actually cost or if it was going to a good place. It’s the greed of constantly trying to find that line on how hard they can squeeze and at what price point people will keep taking it.
Yep. The Golden Age of Streaming was finished years ago. Once we had a whole pie. Maybe cut into a few slices. Now we have a fragmented pie, cut into tiny slices and it looks like Jim tried to fuck it again.
Prime is the worst. 90% of the shit on prime requires an additional subscription.
pre-covid, yea. covid just made these services greedy.
Streaming used to be cheap and a good deal. I remember when YouTube TV launched it was only $35/month and now it’s nearly $100
Holy hell, $35 is still crazy!
This has been a blessing in disguise in some ways. I now make most of our food from scratch. Canned foods, bread, no more soda and instead I make Kefir (which is healthy, too). I bought tools and do the gardening. Same with home repairs. Dumped streaming and will buy second hand DVDs/blurays. It takes a lot of my time, but it’s also so fun, gives this feel good vibe. Ended up in way better shape, less pollution, cleaner food, reconnected with nature. Gaming/movie nights/etc took a big hit, but then again, time well spent with the family.
I stopped getting take out/food delivery. I have saved a ton of money by cooking at home and lost weight.
eating out/delivery often can get to 50-100 easy in one day.
PC parts
my nephew build a pc this winter. he paid like 2K for roughly the same spec that my older nephew built in '23 and paid like $800 for.
only thing that wasn’t a massive price increase was motherboard, case and power supply.
Kids wanted 5 guys, wife + 2 kids.
2 hot dogs, 1 burger and 3 orders of fries and drinks, (i skipped a fucking burger because I saw the price) $70
Never even considered going back.
Thought Mytical kitchen just did a price check per ingredients and while they’re expensive AF, they’re not screwing you as bad as mcdonalds.
DNC excuses.
Pizza. Getting pizza for the family shouldn’t cost over $70. Hell, eating out and fast food are exorbitantly expensive.
And yet the workers are still making shit wages. It’s absurd.
Maybe you should tip more. /s
I hate this comment so much 🥲
Fast food is hilariously overpriced. You pay about as much for a sit down meal at a restaurant for some crappy burgers. I remember the days when they had a true dollar menu. Now they just call it a “value menu” or whatever.
Used to be able to get two double cheeseburgers for $2 at burger king. Add fries and a drink and you were sitting at about $8 after tax. That same order today will run you about $19 before taxes. I’m not even that old, this all happened within the last two decades or so - prices literally more than doubling and all the while the quality getting worse and portion size getting smaller and smaller.
It’s probably better for my health that I can’t stomach the idea of paying that much for greasy unhealthy food, so it’s an occasional treat to let me have that nostalgic taste.
Burger King is the worst offender of Restaurantitus.
They forgot they are fast food, so now try to sell 10 dollar burgers and other ridiculous shit at sitdown prices.
McDonalds is the worst offender for just plain price gouging. Their 99 cent menu doesnt exist anymore, all the shit that WAS on the 99 cent menu is now like 4-5 bucks.
Which is what a fucking bigmac used to cost, and we’d groan about the big mac being 5 dollars.
Never eat out without a coupon!
i was about to try a new shake shack that opened last year at a mall, because i never had it, noped, overpriced for what is. also a new “tea shop” opened, people were still flooding to it. thier lowest cost “Tea” was like 7$ minimum(im guessing because its near a convention center/ the income of that area.)
I have never understood the appeal of a teashop. You mean the same atmosphere as most coffeeshops, without the coffee? what
like milk tea/boba, yea the one i was describing was a “tea shop” im guessing its popular enough.
I got lunch for my mom and myself at Five Guys the other day. Two burgers, one order of fries, two fountain drinks, $44. I wouldn’t even have minded the price if it had been, y’know, fantastic food, but it was just mid. Burgers were bland, fries were limp and greasy – so greasy that the bottom of the bag broke open when I got it home – and even the drinks were watery. For $44!
I tried Taco Bell yesterday for the first time in years. At least it was “only” $11 for a mexican pizza, two tacos and a large drink. Unfortunately it was utterly disgusting, everything tasted like stale wheat flour which was weird because I don’t think the food actually had wheat flour in it anywhere.
44$ wow. one of my bros order delivery a burger place, the 18$ was expensive, but it was good for its cost.
