We are playing Red Alert Yuris Revenge in Parallels with cnc net. multi player is fantastic
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For me, it’s because Instapaper has always been a dead-simple experience. I once gave Reading List a try for about three months and didn’t prefer it. Also tried Pocket for a few months with similar results. And while I’m reasonably confident that with some amount of trial and error I could devise a Drafts-based workflow to replace Instapaper, I’m not especially interested in devoting the time to it. Glad to pay for the value I get every day from Instapaper.
I don’t know of anything that can replace Ulysses, or I’d have gone ages ago. They lied about not going subscription, and the updates are usually so minimal I wonder what they’re doing over there. But it’s how I’ve written for over a decade, and I can’t find a workflow that compares. I’ve never had a more love/hate relationship than the one I have with Ulysses.
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How do you get readwise on an eink device?
Is this an app to stream PC games on a Mac?? I’ve never heard of it and I looked on their website but I wasn’t certain what I was looking at. If so, I’m about to have a new subscription because their library is so good 
If you’re using an Android e-ink device you can just download the Android app. If you’re not on an Android device, you can still log in to the service via browser.
That’s always a tough one. I agree that Ulysses is pretty unique as a writing tool. I do like it. I have a Setapp subscription that gives me Ulysses, although I’m seeing if I can remove Setapp. Having said that the price for one computer (which is all I need) is cheaper than the individual subscriptions for the apps I use.
I’d say obsidian is the best option if your moving away from Ulysses, I just hate the UI. My personal choice for general notes is Craft. I tend to do all my work writing in MS Word.
GeForce Now provides the infrastructure to stream PC games with high-end graphics. However, the games are not included; you play games you already own. You can use it for free if you don’t mind one-hour limits on game sessions.
You either need a Game Pass subscription or to own the games on Steam/GOG/Epic Games/Ubisoft platforms.
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Thanks for your suggestions. I’ve already done all that looking. Before the subscription reckoning happened, I used a lot of different software (it was one of the best things about being in the Apple ecosystem). When everything went SaaS, it kinda got really clear with each passing new cup of coffee a month which software was essential. For me, everything else could go or be replaced with Apple’s stuff except YNAB and Ulysses. Both of these I’d been using for years, both of these I was well-ensconced in and they both improved my life. So, I took it as this being the computer-software version of Darwinism, and decided to pay them, even though they both completely betrayed their long time users in consumer-hostile ways that would otherwise make me run to the hills. I’ve tried other things, I’ve looked all over for options, and it comes down to the fact that no software does what these software packages do so easily in my workflow. Are they worth the money to me? Clearly, they are, which is why I’m here. Do I feel like they’re the awesome software developers of yore who ‘love the Apple ecosystem as much as you do’. Nope. Every time I pay up, I feel like I’m doing something I wouldn’t do if there was a choice. I totally get that these people need to eat. I’d pay for that, and I did. No worries. But I’ve been through these waters so many times I’ve come to believe that a lot of it is just about raking in the cash. That’s the way of the world. YNAB is a smart spreadsheet that costs more per year than the whole of MS Office 365 and all its offerings. Ulysses is no better than Apple Notes which you get for free, but it has workflows and capabilities stapled on that make it perfect for how I write, and all the (at last count) 1,567,000 words I’ve logged in Ulysses won’t work the same if I put them elsewhere.
Anyway. Old man yells at cloud. I’ve said this all before. It just keeps getting to me, and someday it’ll get to me enough that I’ll just toss the whole lot. Used to be software companies cared about the consumers, or so it felt. Now, it’s like everything else… follow the cash. And who can blame them?
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Are we to understand from this that you are not a fan of subscriptions? Join the club! 
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Thanks. I needed that. 
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Your reply made me smile in commiseration because I feel the same as you about YNAB, and many folk who comment online seem to.
I’d love to do some kind of poll of which apps people resent paying for but feel unable to leave. I bet YNAB would be number 1.
I wonder if Evernote would be number 2, but in some ways it is easier to leave Evernote (less of a fear factor).
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Didn’t think I’d be maintaining my essential level of subscriptions when had to start paying for medical insurance this year, but I did. Being able to send emails to Agenda from Spark was the tipping point in favor of adding two subscriptions. I did stop some website forum subscriptions to balance out the additions.
The other tipping point was the elegance of being able in Agenda to set a reminder for a single bullet point (line item) in a journal entry and the ease of importing 1156 journal entries from past years. Agenda even set the proper date in the calendar from the ISO date in the entry title, so clicking “Assign Date” in each note wasn’t any added friction. It’s not like I had to go hunting for the date each time. I did have to also delete the duplicated title as the first line of each note; it took me an hour or so per year to correct everything; I only had to do it once on import.
The ease of working in Agenda also led me to a “heretical thought”; I might not need my paper planner. Still going to use one, because paper doesn’t delete if you take care of them.
Don’t really want to have an Electron app as “essential”, but Spark isn’t overloading anything, as far as I can see. Agenda is native; looks like it’s written in Swift.
That’s why I am still sticking with YNAB 4. The only real drawback is that I need to keep dropbox (free) on my Mac and Macbook. But it has worked same as ever for me since 2015 when I got it and started using it. I have tried the new YNAB a few times and keep getting surprised by how little improvement there is for years and years of annual payments.
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