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Midnitte , to U.S. News in An earthquake just rocked NYC, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas

Alright, see you guys in 2031 for the next one.

btaf45 OP , to Fediverse in President Biden is now posting into the fediverse

Can anyone tell me how I can follow President Biden from kbin.social?

Communist ,
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I’d bet kbin is defederated, almost everything is defederated from threads

Maeve ,

I hope you're right, but I would love to know someone posted this to Geno Joe.

btaf45 OP ,

If that's the case I will go to Mastodon. But I would love to follow Biden on kbin.

Nia_The_Cat ,
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kbin.social/u/@potus you can follow him via this link (anyone else on other kbin instances, just adjust the link to your instance, assuming you aren’t defederated or if it isn’t bugging out atm on your server it should work)

Remember that federation is currently one way with threads. You and other fediverse users can see your own replies and boosts etc on their posts and interact with each other, but no one from threads can see your interactions or replies to them.

HeartyBeast ,
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If you search for @potus he comes up and you can select Follow. Content should then show in the ‘Microblog’ stream. Might take a while to start flowing, though

btaf45 OP ,

Thanks! It works.

LibertyLizard , to Fediverse in Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time
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So which specific platforms are they integrated with? Just Mastodon or are there others?

Somewhereunknown7351 OP ,
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LibertyLizard ,
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Sounds like federation is more theoretical than real at this point. I don’t see much point in one way federation. But does this mean that threads users could pop into this thread and comment?

Somewhereunknown7351 OP ,
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No, they can’t see our comments (and posts) but they can see likes

LibertyLizard ,
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Ah I guess I hadn’t thought it through fully. So this does almost nothing in the current implementation.

Somewhereunknown7351 OP ,
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Yes, this does almost nothing in the current implementation

sxan , to Work Reform in Mailchimp cancels podcast after refusing to work with union producers
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I’m so close to blocking their mail servers; so much spam comes through their servers, and they don’t honor unsubscriptions.

xmunk , to Work Reform in Mailchimp cancels podcast after refusing to work with union producers

Pinkerton bitches.

Pons_Aelius , to homelab in Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files - The Verge

How many times does it have to be said: The cloud is just someone else's computer that you have no control over.

nix , to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?
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I use rocket money. Its free, automatically integrates with all your banks/cards and has great budgeting features. Its not FOSS or self hosted though

hahattpro ,

Premium: We allow members to choose your own price for Premium. You can choose on a sliding scale between $3-$12/month. The $3 - $5 options are billed annually.

In case anyone ask how much it cost

nix ,
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I use it without paying and get everything i need.

rubin , to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?

There is a thread on HN about this (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114512) which includes a link for ghostfol.io which I have not tried, but it is open source / self hostable.

bl4kers ,
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That’s for wealth management primarily, not budgeting

RadButNotAChad , to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?

Oh good. Glad I signed up 2 hours ago. Fucking A.

Bipta , to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?

Wow fuck Intuit. I'll make sure I never give them another dollar in my life.

thesmokingman ,

Doesn’t matter. They have a massive lobbying arm that keeps the US government from making taxes automatic. Unless that lobbying goes away (or politicians start caring about constituents which is much less likely), Intuit will continue making money hand-over-fist from tax software that it can use to fund other dumb shit like acquiring then closing Mint.

Hobble_bobble , to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?

Actual Budget is very good. I’m self hosting but you can host with pikapods or other public services and be up and running very quickly.

It’s YNAB -esque in implementation.

glarf ,

What’s the general level of toil in keeping this software up-to-date? I’m hoping I can get a drop in replacement more or less.

Hobble_bobble ,

Mine is deployed on home assistant.

I get an update once a month, I can ignore it. The update process is completely automatic and only takes a couple of minutes.

The UI includes a one button export of all your budget data so it’s incredibly easy to back up your budget for peace of mind before an update.

DarkGamer , to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?
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Seems like a stupid move to destroy such a popular platform, and highlights the risk of relying on cloud services.

Corgana OP ,
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It really does. I’ve been migrating away from cloud services this past year, wasn’t planning on losing Mint but there’s no time like the present, I suppose.

JoeHill , to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?

I went from Mint to Money in Excel to Tiller. Tiller has been the best for me. Very stable and highly customizable if you know Excel or Google Docs.

Downside is that it’s $79/year

Upside is that it works really well, has a deep user community and they aren’t selling your data (which Mint definitely did).

SpaceNoodle , (edited ) to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?

Mint was useful to me for a while until it started forcibly recategorizing stuff with no way to fix it. Tech support was aggressively worthless to the point that I fully shut down every Intuit account I had (they have their tentacles in some surprising businesses). Fuck Intuit and their data hoarding and their anti-taxpayer lobbying and their cold-blooded murder of what was once the only half-decent money tracking app.

stolid_agnostic ,

This is a good example of what was once a really good company that made really good products but was ruined by the business bros. Everything they touch turns into garbage.

xpinchx , to Personal Finance in Mint.com is going away. Are there any alternatives that are as automatic and simple?

I use YNAB (you need a budget) it’s not free but it’s GREAT for setting savings goals, paying back debt, etc.

It’s also flexible if you need to break your budget for some reason. You can pull from another bucket easily (gas bill is high, pull from emergency savings or cut from gaming), or just overspend and it goes on a report to keep track and plan better.

The best part is peace of mind on big bills - when it comes time to pay taxes or pay for my 6mo car insurance I’ve already been saving 1/12 or 1/6 of that total every month leading up to it. I can put everything in auto pay and never have to worry about the money being there.

BolexForSoup ,
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Man I used YNAB a ton as a freelancer starting out as a sort of bubblegum and paper clip solution for tracking my expenditures/purchases. It’s a surprisingly, flexible program and was definitely worth the money. Really glad I had it. Not saying that’s how people should use it, but the point is it’s just really good for tracking money in/money out.

PeepinGoodArgs ,

I’ll third YNAB. I’ve been using it for years. Being able to see how the money in your checking account already has a purpose and isn’t sitting there waiting to be spent on some bullshit is huge. My SO and I argue about stuff, but our financial stress, a huge problem in many relationships, is nonexistent.

xpinchx ,

Yeah I used be like wow I have $5000 time to buy some bullshit. But really $3-4000 of that is upcoming expenses so I really only have $1000 and I should use that to pay down a CC or student loans.

stolid_agnostic ,

I tried it for some time but couldn’t get past the onerous need to reconcile and categorize every single transaction that it detects. It finally made me shut down my account because it caused me such great anxiety.

xpinchx ,

It auto categorizes now but it’s still a little tedious, sometime recently they added batch categorizing so I can grab all the restaurants and add that to my Eating Out category but it also forces me to look at my finances every couple days which is a good habit imo.

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