…he had to keep explaining to his bosses that “They are not a vendor, there is no NDA, we have no leverage, your VP has refused to help fund them, and they could kill three major product lines tomorrow with an email.

(Emphasis mine)

Just chef’s kiss, I love it.

Also, seems like a good time for one of my favorite relevant XKCD’s.

Are you trying to track expenses or budget? The difference is in how you’re using the data. Busgeting is a much more active process of making sure money is going to the right place. The difference is a deep topic that might be beyond the scope of your question so I’ll leave it at that for now.

For budgeting, the gold standard is still YNAB. There are plenty of valid criticisms to level against it but I’ve done a lot of research and tried out a lot of tools and it’s still the best.

I am keeping a close eye on ActualBudget. It’s not ready for me yet, personally, but they’re doing fantastic work with that project. If you don’t mind a little extra technical maintenance (barely any with PikaPods as another comment suggested), it can get you a long way. Notably, this is the most private recommendation I can make. Since you run your own instance and it’s open-source software, you can tell exactly what its doing with your data. Automatic bank import is available but not required or pushed on you.

If you’re interested more in tracking, Mint used to be the easiest tool to get into. Unfortunately with it shut down, I’m not aware of any similar replacements. If I were looking for more of a tracking and reporting tool, I would probably import my bank data into a spreadsheet and go from there. I think there might be a gap in the market here (though I also think there were a lot of Mint users who really needed a budgeting tool and, IMO, it wasn’t very good for that).

I’ve started looking at PocketGuard which might be a good replacement for Mint and fit your needs. I can’t speak much about it myself yet but it looks interesting.

Oh boy, seems I missed something again. What’s wrong with PIA? I’ve been using them forever.

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I have tried to solve this many times as I want to regularly back up my Google content - mostly the images for the same purpose you mention.

Unfortunately there is no good solution I’ve ever come up with or found. I even looked into scripting with something like puppeteer. It requires regular confirmation of your authentication and I just haven’t found a good way to solve that since there’s no API access. It also won’t let you use any cli tools like wget. You could probably figure out how to pull some token or cookie to give to the cli but you’d have to do it so often that its more of a pain than just manually downloading.

My solution currently is to run a firefox browser in a container on my server to download them. It acts as sort of a session manager (like tmux or zellij for command line) so that if the PC I’m using goes to sleep or something, the downloads continue. Then I just check in occasionally through the day. Plus I wanted them on the server anyway, at the end of the day. Downloading them there directly saves me having to then transfer to the server.

Switching to .tgz will let you make up to 50GB files which at least means fewer iterations and longer time between interactions (so I can actually do something useful in the meantime).

I sincerely hope someone proves me wrong and has a way to do this but I’ve searched a lot. I know other people want to solve it but I’ve never seen anyone with a solution.

I would like to switch to another app, preferably FOSS, but I haven’t found another decent one that has the filters feature from PocketCasts. This is the feature that lets you apply a preset filter to the total list of episodes. I use it to auto-build a queue of just certain podcasts, instead of all of my subscriptions.

Any chance someone has seen that feature elsewhere?

They don’t refer to it as Lyme because it’s a different issue. It just happens to also be spread by ticks. Lyme disease and Alpha-gal Syndrome are different things but are sometimes comorbities since both are commonly spread by ticks.

I use Lidarr. I know its primary purpose is downloading but if you just never configure those parts, it can do all the renaming, folder organization, and metadata tagging. It uses MusicBrainz primarily, iirc. You can also configure scripts to run it through beets or other tools too.

There’s no perfect solution for this because music metadata is a lot more complicated than movies or tv. But Lidarr gets pretty close to set-and-forget.

I’ve also tried MusicBrainz Picard with pretty decent results but I found it sort of suffered from the problems you described for your current system.

Anyone know what “improved mover behavior” means? Seems like I was having some trouble for a while there where it couldn’t keep up. Its settled down now but I’m curious if there was an actual issue I was having.

There’s already an envelope budgeting tool called You Need A Budget that’s well known in the personal finance community, making this naming feel intentionally misleading. This tool is also not how the envelope system works. It’s not an envelope per day, it’s an envelope per category.

I want to assume best intentions here but this project is raising some major red flags for me and I haven’t even looked at the source code. I even kind of wonder if its AI…

Wouldn’t put it past them as the Retroarch lead devs have done shit like that before.

Do you have examples? I usually stay out of dev drama as well but I just started using Retroarch and I’m curious. I also don’t want to support people that abuse the community, so I’d like to be informed.

I don’t think the article included it and it’s a little difficult to find the phrasing.

I found a sample ballot

https://www.boe.ohio.gov/clark/c/upload/ELEC_BallotProofs.pdf

The phrasing there is

To create an appointed redistricting commission not elected by or subject to removal by the voters of the state

However a vote of “Yes” would establish a non-partisan (or, IMO more accurately, a mixed partisan) committee of 15 (5R, 5D, 5 other) where a majority of the committee must approve the redistricting.

The extended description starts with this

1. Repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering approved by nearly three-quarters of Ohio electors participating in the statewide elections of 2015 and 2018, and eliminate the longstanding ability of Ohio citizens to hold their representatives accountable for establishing fair state legislative and congressional districts.

Technically all of this is correct but I can absolutely see how it’s misleading voters.

Full disclosure, I’m not a lawyer or political scientist and I do not live in Ohio.