I don’t like subscribing to nonphysical things. I can read a physical paper a month after it arrived. Digital is faster, but I tend to lose it before I have read it.

I need a recipient in my pocket. Too often my virtual thing is lost, my device fails, or things reboot and I don’t have my secure 24 digit password with me.

I won’t subscribe to a digital only anything. Physical and digital is nice.

Edit: They don’t even have to be identical. A digital daily with a monthly print would be nice.

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    I’m impatient too fucking hate waiting for it To deliver. I want it now goddamn it

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      I don’t think this is what OP meant, but one thing I absolutely love about having a 3d printer is having physical things ‘delivered’ now-ish lol

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    I’ve converted my entire life to digital and most of it I store locally. Its so much nicer not having so much crap.

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    Please tell me you don’t have one single secure 24 digit password?

    You should really use a password manager and vary the length of your passwords. 24-32 digits for instance. That way if one gets stolen people still can’t brute force 24 digits.

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    All of my recipes are physical. I find them online, digitally edit, then print and put in my recipe binder. I will not use screens in the kitchen… It makes them dirty and I can’t make notes easily.

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      I love printing out recipes! It’s also easier to replace my paper recipes when I invariably spill water on them or such!

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      That is tricky. I don’t think I purchase services that are not immediately consumed.

      No Netflix or Spotify. I do get utilities, but I doubt that is your meaning.

      Do you have an example?

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        Oil changes, tax preparation, deep tissue message. Paying someone else to do something you don’t want to or can’t do yourself.

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          Great, thank you. Those are not what I mean.

          Oil changes result in a receipt and new oil. Tax prep resilts in a receipt and a task completed. Deep tissue message gets a nice feeling and a receipt. None are digital only.

          Paying someone to play music for me does likely fit. It may be a weakness in my thinking.

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    Some online things are worth the money, such as chat services like Threema, cloud storage like Filen…

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    So…would the physical monthly be a collection of all that months digital dailys in print form? Or would it be entirely new content that isn’t time sensitive?

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      I would be happy with archive. Better would be curated with all corrections and followups grouped together.

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    There are a very few magazines I like to get in print, and even that minimal number gets out of control so fast. I use the library for digital books but pay for music streaming and get a thousand times more utility out of that money than I would using it to buy a CD. Also pay for music performance live, and a few bucks to the community radio station.

    And personally I do have more trouble managing physical items, and easily feel overwhelmed by stuff.

    Library is the way to go, and community radio.