To much of a power use to use LibreOffice exclusively, but it is amazing for what it is and Microsoft is absolute shit

Saldy you are mostly right, bnut there are people like me who want to help (as far as I can)

For my servers I also really liked Truenas scale and Proxmox, but if I need something generic I go with Debian as well yess

Yes, a lot of Linux users are insufferable, but there are also people willing to help in a nice and normal manner …

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.

You would be surprised how many companies don’t even have something fundamental like a custom SSID and password, or a backup, etc.

A lot of phone chargers etc that aren’t grounded and some are slightly to thick to fit in type E

I have had terrible luck with Samsung phones as well

I dislike the whole minority/majority thing, we are all human and we need to be threated like that.

Maybe you are right and I accidentally joined some LGBTQ+ threads ment more for minorities. That doesn’t explain why some of my gay friends never felt welcome in online communities for LGBTQ+

Often what just happens irl is that those people just meet each other somewhere without the rest or go somewhere slightly differently during work, a party or whatever and then talk about what they want. At least that’s when I was a minority back in the day when gaming was for nerds. And that’s what my LGBTQ+ friends do when they want to do that, but The Netherlands has always been pretty open to that. That same thing happens online that people don’t join discussions they don’t care about.

It’s not ironic at all. I’m guessing you have never been in a setting that would have benefitted from such a policy.

The only times I have been in a setting like that was when getting bullied in school where they didn’t want to talk to me because I was the minority.

Edit: I care about people, not about in what “group” they belong, fuck that

Well that’s fair, it has been a while since I ran into a LGBTQ+ community online, so it might have changed, but like I said I have heard it from others as well.

that some spaces meant for internal discussion about problems that are unique to LGBTQ+ people in order to share experience and advice where most people who are not part of the group can’t say anything since they aren’t affected. Since that is most people hetero peple are not welcome there in general for simplicity’s sake. Those spaces are not meant as an Information desk and they don’t have to be one since there are other spaces on the internet that can act as that.

You are right about that, but I wasn’t commenting on threads like that per say, because well I don’t have a clue about it.

But I have comment on a thread about say gender-neutral bathrooms, some people prefer them and some people don’t. I responded that the trans people I know preferred their current gendered bathroom because well they are that gender. People didn’t like that I said that, but maybe it is because like somebody else said, so many people lie on the internet and such.

We have a lot of registers and depending on the licence the company or person receives it will be made public. Things like building changes, export of live animals etc. You can look some up over here: https://www.nvwa.nl/onderwerpen/erkenningen-registraties-en-vergunningen/overzicht-bedrijven-met-erkenningen-registraties-en-vergunningen

Weapon licences go through the police instead of the government itself https://www.justis.nl/producten/wet-wapens-en-munitie/een-ontheffing-op-de-wet-wapens-en-munitie-aanvragen-bij-justis the office of justice needs to sign it off it seems.

So it just works differently, if you would want to pass a law that changes how those licences are signed, it would be known, and you wouldn’t be the person signing it. The office of justice would be, and probably it is checked multiple times before it even gets there that it isn’t financing terrorism or something which is illegal according to the WWFT and some other laws.

Pretty sure a journalist is allowed to write about anything and everything https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/media-en-publieke-omroep/persvrijheid-bewaken there are probably some exceptions on things like kids etc, but a public spokesperson doesn’t have that anyway.

This law goes on about the open government: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0045754/2025-07-01 And there are multiple parties who try and keep businesses somewhat in check (like accountants, the fiod, etc.)

So if you would try and pull this off in The Netherlands you would have a hard time doing it and I doubt you can do it without somebody being a whistleblower.

People are voted here for the person there are or for their idea’s on certain subject or whatever somebody chooses to make their vote. Everybody can enlist themselves to be voted on different levels on the politic spectrum. Heck, it is even is a spectrum instead of a 2 or 3 party system.

A lot of what is done in the government is transparent and open for the public to read/see, a lot of our justice system is publicly available as well (except certain cases regarding children).

Most companies have to be transparent at least on a financial level and most of the bigger once also on other levels.

Our politic system is far from ideal though: https://www.democratiemonitor.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Democratie-Monitor-2025.pdf

Well that doesn’t help no …

But the consequence of it, is that people like me experience the not being able to talk about certain aspects of humanity or of life, which is kinda understandable to be fair.

Okey interesting, Ill keep it in mind. It might not work for this situation I have experiences about the LGBTQ+ communities online, but who knows. Thx!

What are they going to do next? Force high class escorts to stop doing their job?

The Netherlands?

Sorry to rephrase my comments towards you, I have come across communities on Reddit, here and elsewhere online where there is a post about something LGBTQ+ related. I post a comment around the subject, either asking a question or supporting the general cause, but ofc I experience the entire situation differently than somebody who is completely part of it, so people always notice it.

But instead of explaining where I am wrong or forming a normal conversation, I get shit like you are doing. Which really alienates me from the online communities. I act the same way when I am in person talking to people from LGBTQ+ and they act completely different and some even share the same opinion.

I do live in NL where the situation surrounding LGBTQ+ is more open than in a lot of other countries, but still.

Where do you suggest I start doing “my homework”? or are you just gonna shut me down trying to learn more about the subject like most have done?