https://www.hetzner.com/european-cloud Netzner can be a good alternative

Actual Budget does it through simple fin.

But I hope most American banks work better than PayPal, with PayPal I only get half the transactions. Like I get that I paid Apple 99 cents, but where is the transaction that PayPal charges my bank account 99 cent? Spoiler they don’t include it in their exports.

They are calling what is basically bookkeeping accounting which is incorrect. Bookkeeping is the act of doing the administration, creating reports etc. Accountants do audits, make actual annual reports and other things more along those lines.

Why would I need a script to automate my bookkeeping? Nearly every software has the ability to connect to your bank. Actual Budget and Firefly III both do it through GoCardless and nearly every software I have worked with both personally and proffesionally has the ability to make rules that say that transactions to say Shell need to be processed to “gas costs” or whatever you want.

I understand that you want more versatile bookkeeping and it sounds nice in theory, but in my experience working in the field with a lot of different software is you don’t want to much freedom in the bookkeeping itself. If there is a payment that is done form the bank it should be something debit and bank credit for that same amount and the bank credit part should never change.

Some of the best software solutions are once with automatic bank connections, OCR/AI recognition software for purchase invoices and where the whole sales process can be connected to automated sales bookkeeping. There are few who do all of this, and a lot of them don’t support fringe solutions like automatically calculating the Dutch margeregeling for second hand products.

I am all for more open source and free bookkeeping software, but I am missing more software with immutable bank connections f.e. If my banks sens a file to the software containing 11 transactions I want my software to process those 11 transactions exactly like they are on the sheet. This reduces the daily/weekly/mostly reconciliation almost entirely.

Actual Budget is an amazing piece of software.

There are some really annoying “features” though that they refuse to fix, like being able to mutate transactions that come from a bank connection.

I hate how they don’t differentiate between bookkeeping and accounting, where I am from using accountancy is even a resevered term for certified accounting or firms.

Also, the more automation you do the more you can focus on actual analysing your finances which can help you improve.

it wasn’t only NC that was a hassle on TrueNas lol, now with Docker Compose most seem to be working a lot better imo.

192 My Street

Except that with street addresses there is such a lack of inconsistency on how they work and are written that it is funny

In a lot of cases yes, but things like Truenas Bitwarden are paid by enterprise users and the community versions help them with spreading word about the software and helping signal bugs etc.

Yes they can also turn to shit, but generally the consumer markt is so slim that they don;t care

Tailscale luckly isn’t in the US

Same here, but it also depends per country since well average life spans, average age to buy a house, average age to start a family etc all have an impact on when a new generation starts.

I just checked, yes it is every 24 hours, but I have to restart that thing regularly so that it is why it feels quicker I gues

That was the case when I lived with my parents, but now it changes every 5 minutes sadly.

So I had to shut down my Minecraft server etc for now because I am on a 5G modem which makes it really annoying to open up ports and point a domain to your IP

Well yes I know, but there is a difference between using a domain bound to me as a person and a random string of numbers that changes every 5 minutes

Yeah I can always do that, but putting stuff behind something like Tailscale is (or atleast feels) more secure than making my IP known to the public. I have a DMZ setup though so it should be fine.

Crap, I really need to switch of Tailscale but currently it is an easy way for me to access my stuff outside of home as a temporary solution while I am on a 5G modem.

I have ResillioSync setup witch syncs between different family members. Both me and my uncle make offline backups of the dataset.

My pictures on my phone are backupped by iCloud, OneDrive, Resilliosync and Immich … The exports are all posted in the Resilliosync dataset and in Immich.

My most important files are on Protondrive and I used to make backups using Perfectbackup to my NAS, but since I ditched WIndows I need something else/

Heck the name of the brand doesn’t have to be the same as the name of the company.

It is also standard practise to do in basically every country. It helps with liability, but it also helps when you want to sell parts of the company and can help for tax reasons as well.

I have seen companies with similar structures who only have a couple of hundred thousand euro of revenue.

The recommended rate for RAM to TB of storage is one, so for every 1TB of data they recommend you need to have 1GB of ram. Not sure how relevant it actually is since I have a lot more ram than storage on the server, but just something to note.

Virtualising ZFS on top of ZFS is generally not supported and can cause issues. I run TrueNas baremetal and run a lot of docker services in TrueNas itself, you can also run VM’s on TrueNas. I know some people virtualise TrueNas in Proxmox, but the only use I see is to host something in a VM on proxmos that you cannot really run inside a TrueNas VM. The thing with TrueNas is that everything is either stored in the datasets or in the config file. The latter can be backupped pretty easily.

I have both a TrueNas server and a Proxmox box with OPnsense running, Proxmox is very nice I just don’t see a reason to run TrueNas inside Proxmox.

Duck Duck Go was never really good at showing results in my experience. Currently using Ecosia and switching between the Googl and Bing index. I hope they get their own index soon

Not the person you responded to, but personally I just went Truenas scale on baremetal and it worked really well. Currently they also work with docker so setting up additional apps is really easy as well.