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Personal Accounting: Do You Do It? How? (beehaw.org)
 

Hi all,

So I started YNAB a few years ago, and found myself enjoying the accounting aspects more than the budgeting aspects. When the price kicked up, I thought I'd explore the personal accounting space some more.

So I started using GNUCash and learned about double entry accounting. Which was fun sometimes, less fun other times. I liked that I could use Git with the save file, didn't like entering every. single. transaction. manually. I could never figure out the bank sync.

Eventually, I switched to Quicken, and have been mostly OK with it so far (on Mac). Though I'm still not used to using Reports and the like for personal analytics, the mobile app is clunky, and I occasionally run into wonky bugs with sync or with the general app.

How do you all go about tracking funds in accounts, if at all?

Thanks!

We must end the tyranny of printers in American life in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Please forgive the multiple posts. My UI is glitchy af and reports errors when there were none.

We must end the tyranny of printers in American life in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm that bootleg printer ink is a thing. It used to be all I used. While sites dedicated to it off Amazon doesn’t cut it.

But as someone else pointed out, manufacturers have been adding “DRM” to cartridges in more recent years. Even in older printers, I will get complaints doubting the authenticity of the cartridges I was putting in.

We must end the tyranny of printers in American life in c/technology@beehaw.org
We must end the tyranny of printers in American life in c/technology@beehaw.org
Cancel Amazon Prime [2021] in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I’d be kinda down for this

What's the biggest docker footgun you've experienced? in c/devops@programming.dev
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting — coming from the Linux world where docker is an 'apt install' away, I struggled with docker installation on Mac and settled on their client because of various “gotchas” I saw online. And even then got pissed because the client overwrote my local 'kubectl' bin.

Guess I’ll have to reevaluate.

What petty hill will you die on? in c/chat@beehaw.org
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’ve always thought it could be a good retort when someone is dissatisfied with the amount of resources you’ve already put towards some thing.

“Wow, thanks for getting me only 20 bucks in my birthday card”

“you’re only volunteering for a day? They are volunteering for at least three”

“Gross, you’re got me a used laptop?”

Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Got my immediate family on it. Miss some features when forced elsewhere.

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Losing Things Evokes a Physical Stress Response (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dxcz@beehaw.org to c/neurodivergence@beehaw.org
12 comments fedilink
 

ADHD person here. And I’m just so drained from spending hours meticulously looking for (essentially) $20.

It’s not about money — I’ll live without the $20. I’ve just lost so many important things in my life so many times that it drives me absolutely fucking insane. Seething, heart thumping, muscle flexing rage.

And what makes things worse is that I take measures to prevent this from happening. So when I still lose things, the failure just cuts twice as deep.

Not looking for any solutions atm. Just venting to folks who might get it while I physically recover and let the loss go. Thanks all.

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Personal Cloudless Location Tracking App? (Hero's Path) (beehaw.org)
 

Hi all,

Does anyone know of any apps that track your location over time and map it so that you can see where you were at a given time? Preferably one that doesn't upload any of this information to a/the cloud?

I'm a forgetful person and often wonder "what was I don't last Tuessday?" or "When did I get home?" or "How long was I at X?". Sometimes I also just want to contribute to things like OpenStreetMaps for less mapped areas (though I know this requires very frequent pings).

I used to use this feature using Google Location History but stopped because I decided I didn't want to give them any more of my data than necessary.

If anyone plays Legend of Zelda BOTW or TOTK, I'm thinking of it as a sort of personal "Hero's Path Mode".

Slack To Introduce GPT Features in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I hadn’t considered this, but this would be awesome.

Having it go 2 ways and draft new articles (thinking TODO pages) based on Slack mentions would be interesting too, I think?

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Slack To Introduce GPT Features (slack.com)
 

I know this isn't part of the federated toolset that most in these parts prefer, but I have to use Slack for work. Thought this was interesting.

Apollo for Reddit is shutting down in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

kbin looks nice, though this is the first I'm hearing of it 🧐

As an incoming Redditor who’s thrilled to see Fediverse alternatives getting some content and traction in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I lurked because everything I had to say had already been said, or so it seemed.

Seems like, with less users, that's less likely to happen. Been nice.

As an incoming Redditor who’s thrilled to see Fediverse alternatives getting some content and traction in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] dxcz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this a TechnologyConnections reference? haha