Thanks, that list is really helpful :)

I have, but I find it easier to understand if there’s a human being explaining things as well. I can flounder pretty quickly now if I’m just dropped into it without any guidance :(

I’ll have a look into that, thanks! :)

I don’t think I will either. I gave up and did a general internet search to read people’s opinions instead.

This is the first time I’ve had this much slop come up in one video. The search I used was “Actual budget vs Firefly III”: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=actual+budget+vs+firefly+iii. I mostly watch Linux tech related videos, some gaming stuff, DIY, bit of comedy here and there, philosophy and some socio-anarchist stuff (ya know, like protecting your privacy lol). No idea why I would get so much slop from one search other than the enshittification of YouTube is accelerating :/

Have you had to deal with refunds yet? I see that as a criticism and I would have to agree that the official doc’s way of handling them is not ideal for our situation or the way refunds are handled in my country. Interested in knowing if anyone has come up with more creative solutions.

Once upon a time yes. But then once upon a time the whole internet. I used to hate watching videos for learning but I have cognitive issues now that makes visual learning easier for me. Actually written is now extremely difficult for me. So I will use reviews of things to see how they work before I try them out myself. Just a shame that its so hard to find a real human being to learn from online anymore.

Multiple videos that have the same style of thumbnail (AI generated face excepted). Multiple videos with a very similar thumbnail and exact same wording. They’re all within the past year, mostly within the past 6 months (this software has existed for many years, why all of a sudden do multiple channels want to do vs or review videos of them). They’re all short videos and its just not possible to give a proper breakdown of feature or a review of budgeting software in that amount of time. The few videos I tested used AI voices and all had a similar start (I didn’t waste my time watching the whole video). The faces on the videos look AI generated or modified…

Did you have any problems with Aurora? I thought it would be perfect for my parent. But ran like a dog on their laptop and could work out why. Tried Mint instead and it just worked out of the box.

Thank you! I’ll take a look :)

My phone does not have expandable memory and storage is expensive in my country anyway.

Thanks, I’ll have a look into it! :)

I was considering doing that sort of thing if I couldn’t find anything automatic. It’s just annoying as I buy new music and have to convert along the way, especially as I have memory impairment and can forget to clean up afterwards.

I’ll give that a go, thanks :)

I don’t want to stream at all because I don’t want to be reliant on having an internet connection :)

You are correct and I don’t normally like to listen to anything less than 320kbps. BUT, my phone does not have expandable memory so it’s hard limited. And where I listen to most of my music while travelling is in the car using the car’s speakers which aren’t going to make much difference listening to 128vs 320. Even when streaming music, I’m not going to get 320. I may go up to 192kbps instead of 128 but I doubt it will make much audible difference with shitty car speakers.

I don’t want to be reliant on an internet connection to play music. Hence, why I prefer everything to be local on my phone. I also don’t want to open our home server up to the outside world.

My spouse is a tech and tells me he has all the patience for stupidity because he gets paid for it. Once upon a time, I was going to go into IT but turns out that no amount of money was worth it for me because my tolerance for stupidity and willful ignorance is next to zero.

TBF, I still smile and tell family members it’s all good, no problem to fix and then vent my inward seething later on to my spouse 😅

Drives me nuts computer illiterate family members praising me for fixing the most basic, basic shit for them. They think its because I have lots of experience. But no, its because I learned the absolute basics of computer literacy and the experience I now have is grounded in that. I don’t want praise for “working magic”, I want people to fucking spend a small amount of their time learning the most BASIC of IT skills so I don’t have to waste my time fixing shit you should know.

Sorry, my frustration might be showing just a little.

And not many consider the environmental impact of this either. Sure storage might be cheap (not in my country but I digress) but more space still requires more storage and across thousands of computers and then millions of computers that’s not an insignificant increase. We should be increasing technological efficiency not what were doing at the moment which seems to be just throwing more power and resources at the problems.