Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/

I scrolled down a bit more and got this: https://i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screenshot-20251118-150802.png

Scrolled down some more and this: https://i.postimg.cc/v1khnhRp/Screenshot-20251118-151325.png

I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.

Anyone have a good comparison video? I’m just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use :)

  • Sims@lemmy.ml
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    24 days ago

    This is all just Capitalist slop. Has nothing to do with AI or llms, just the kind of society it exists in and the type of psychopath corporations that delivers. We seem to forget that all other tool we use to de-shittify the net, ALL fight capitalist tendencies, but when AI comes along and gives the Capitalist believers a new tool for scamming people, then it is suddenly the tools fault !!

    People hate Capitalism, not the tool…

    • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
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      24 days ago

      I remember people making this same argument but for social media, doesn’t make any more sense now than it did then. Corpos are the ones in control of that tool, using it helps them so much more than it does you. If you don’t want to support the ideology that developed it, you really need to just not engage.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Ufff. Yeah, I also hit a slop mountain of videos when searching for Seafile comparisons…

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I tried Actual Budget for a while, but didn’t stick with it long term. I also looked at Firefly III, never tried it though.

    Eventually I figured out I just want an expense tracker instead of full budgeting and settled for ExpenseOwl

  • Glaedr304@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I have been self hosting fireflyIII for almost 2 months now, I like it, my wife is an accountant and she likes it. I didn’t want to have to pay for an accounting service, and my credit union doesn’t have an api that I am aware of to connect to the paid services anyway.

    Would recommend 👍

    • Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      25 days ago

      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.

      • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.socialEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Maybe something from this list could fit your requirements better. I’ve been using Firefly for a couple years now and in combination with 3rd party Android app(s) it’s been okay for me. But refunds have always been hacky for sure.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    23 days ago

    This “culture” of stealing video titles, thumbnails and even entire ideas wholesale has been going for a while on Youtube, unfortunately.

  • pix_wbmr@feddit.org
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    25 days ago

    I got so many AI slop videos regarding tech lately… it’s turning everything into shit :(

  • dx1@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    23 days ago

    We need platforms where AI content is just banned. We’re past the point we need to start systematically excluding all this crap.

    • atmorous@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      We need more PeerTube devs to develop it further

      Also to switch everybody to Vanillo (not open source but definitely a way better alternative)

      Best if they make it so there is no AI Content allowed too or at very least segmented away from human content

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    24 days ago

    We’re going to need another project like SponsorBlock and Dearrow for labeling AI spam…

    • Sims@lemmy.ml
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      24 days ago

      Just label things broadly with ‘Capitalist Slop’ - and have a set of standard tools to get rid of that harmful religion. Sponsorblock, dearrow, ublock, most privacy tools, and all other attempts at un-shittifying the net, are just working against that infantile belief system and its natural consequences.

  • cdzero@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    I’ve got a family member interested in switching to Linux but the finance software is an obstacle. I had a look and landed on gnucash which I thought I would trial myself and then see if if would work for them. I like it!

  • aaronhooper@retrolemmy.com
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    23 days ago

    I remember back in the day using gnucash but I’m sure there are better alternatives on awesome-selfhosted, if you want to go that route. I imagine a raspberry pi or some low power hardware can also run those. They’re great because they’re not platform dependent. Docker might be a hurdle though

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Maybe not what you’re looking for, but there’s a program called “Money Wallet” on Android. It’s on F-Droid and free software. Maybe my favourite because every time I spend cash I just open it up and I enter what I just spent.

    For professional use, I’d recommend GNU Cash, though.

  • HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz
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    24 days ago

    I think its budgeting features are lackluster, but I have highly enjoyed gnucash for tracking my expenses, incime & where everything goes.

    It’s all manual more or less, and you do double ledger accounting, so all the money is accounted for somewhere.

  • apprehensively_human@lemmy.caEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I’ve been using Actual for a while now, probably close to a year. Before that I was on YNAB, which isn’t FOSS but does have a huge library of material for how to make your budget work for you instead of the other way around.

    I got off YNAB after they kept raising their subscription fees for seemingly no reason. Actual is not nearly as feature-rich but you can’t really argue with the price.

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
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    24 days ago

    Im reasonable happy with Actual Budget. I like that it has desktop apps that can sync woth a server that was easy to set up, I can import various things via .csv, rules to automatically categorise stuff are nice. I dont care about the envelope budgeting or whatever it’s called they’re on about but it’s easy to ignore / turn off.

  • Sips'@slrpnk.net
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    24 days ago

    Ive started seeing a lot of these sadly… Luckily they’re still somewhat easy to spot.