You'll never fail anything if you don't try! This guys figured it out!
paequ2
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Semi-manual tracking with YNAB. My bank doesn't offer an OAuth2 API and there's no way in hell I'm giving Plaid my bank credentials. So, I just download a transactions file and upload that to YNAB.
I know people here will probably recommend https://actualbudget.org/ which seems like a YNAB-clone (in a good way). But the reason I went with YNAB is because they have a ton of docs and videos about how YNAB works and budgeting in general. ActualBudget seems to be targeted at people who already know what they're doing (not me).
YNAB/Actual might be different than Mint, though. YNAB is based on envelope budgeting, as opposed to just collecting spending metrics. I haven't used Mint in a very long time, not sure if it's changed since.
My new years resolution is to spend less money and spend more deliberately.
January is wrapping up and I'm kinda shocked. I discovered that the estimate in my head of how much monthly house bills are is... off... by... a lot... I was just thinking about the monthly bills like water, electricity, internet, but failed to account for gas, groceries, restaurants, and repairs.
Now that I'm actually budgeting and tracking, I'm seeing what's really going on.
In this latest update, Google has adjusted this to allow for more granularity. Newly added “Temperature” and “Weather units” sections in Pixel Weather’s settings menu allow for changes for each unit of measurement. These include: Precipitation, Wind Speed, Barometric Pressure, Visibility
I'm from the US, but I usually switch units to metric as much as possible. Currently, I can only switch over the temperature. It'll be great to switch over the rest of the data. Great news!
My neighbor told me I was gonna die in 1year after getting the first round of COVID vaccines. Pff. I wish! Still here unfortunately.
Can we make Matrix not suck first?
Technologically, very cool, much wow. But UI/UX wise, it's pretty terrible. I managed to convince 5 friends to move to Matrix from Discord. They lasted like 3 days before going back to Discord. One guy couldn't even figure out how to post a message and have it be decrypted by everyone in the group. We just kept seeing "Message could not be decrypted" or whatever over and over again. We had to fall back to Discord to reach him.
They probably won't be taking recommendations from me anymore. :|
(We used Element X clients.)
My experience with my friends and family:
I left Facebook a long time ago and never looked back.
This was my failure.
https://purelymail.com/ seems like it's a cheap, no-nonsense email provider. I'm already setup on Migadu and happy enough, so I haven't tried it. But it seems like a lot of people like it.
People were recently talking about it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42836818
Did you notice if it seemed to improve a bit with time?
Mmm... no. I just more violently drag across the trackpad until it works and then resume what I was doing. 😅
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Hold strong!