> asset we have is our home and there are many websites out there that tell you how much it's worth but they each vary an awful lot and change dramatically - so much so sometimes that any savings you've made in the same period are eclipsed
I honestly completely ignore my purchased home value. It is not a regular asset because you have to make use of it, you can’t really liquidate it without a substantial change in your life (renting, marrying, going homeless, etc). If you trade it, you’d have to use that money to get some other housing. My strategy in my personal finances is to threat the house as if I’m renting. The money is gone from the balance, the equity isn’t tracked anywhere.
> Budgeting can make that manageable by significantly lowering your living standard
I’d say that budgeting allows you to see how far off your ideal standard you are living. Spending too much on the kids school can be a deliberate choice or an afterthought from 4 years ago. Budgeting lets you see that and be deliberate about those choices.
In the 2010s I had used virtually all existing Personal Finances software on the internet and ended up building my own [1] that I still maintain and use to this day.
A ton of software out there was too US-centric, sometimes not even supporting multi-currency, or the UI being terrible to a newcomer. I've recently tried Beancount, but it still didn't convince me to switch over, because:
1) Double-entry bookkeeping is about what happened, and I want the software to tell me what's coming up. I can still handle that in Beancount, but it's unaware of $CURRENT_DATE, making it labour intensive: if you post an expense for the next week, it will already deduct it from your balance, you'd have to post the item as a liability, and then later move the liability to an expense once it actually hit the bank account (and you have to do that manually);
2) I matured my personal finances by following the YNAB method, and I'm not sure how to apply that to DEBK;
3) I think most people use a Personal Finances software differently than me. I see discussions about importing transactions and monthly reconciling. I open it nearly daily to check what is coming up, and I post transactions as soon as they happen. I want to know how much clothing/groceries/restaurant budget I have left before I leave home;
Any tips on how to handle those things on Beancount/DEBK, or that's just not for me?
Please expand on this. Public cloud IPs would be on spam lists, and providers like Hetzner and OVH aren’t any better. Where does one go to buy a decent IP?
I had troubles with Apple blocking a bunch of range IPs from OVH, because they don’t handle abuse claims. It didn’t show up in blocklists at the time, but was in practice unusable.
IME anything that can be purchased by an average developer is in some list nowadays and deliverability is always crap (with luck it lands on spam folder).
Ditto. From all the places that I’ve quit, the only counter offer I’d accept would be “we’ll implement this structure/process change that is slowly killing your will to work here”.
I can’t wrap my mind around those goals, because (IMHO) the number one thing that would improve viewership is entirety outside of YouTube’s hand: content quality. So the author can only ever move needles that are thrice removed (i.e.: improving backend tools -> creators have more time -> creators create better content) or are statistical coincidences (we made the buttons round -> viewership went up 0.2%).
My point was more that throwing around the lowest price point (in a different currency...) of a differently positionned product line helps nothing.
Comparing Macs to Framework laptops is also an exercise in frustration in that nobody's seriously looking at the two for the exact same task. The price point discussion was already a distraction IMHO.
Can you imagine someone thinking "I'm gonna buy an officially supported fully user repairable Linux dev machine, should I get a MacBook Air 15?" or "I own everything in the Apple ecosystem and just need 'a laptop', how does that 100% incompatible machine fit my needs ?"
How much of an overlap is there really ? I totally understand the article author getting mad when he was looking for a completely different thing in the first place.
I think it depends. At least on $dayjob’s stack (webdev/Go) both are interchangeable and I’m fine using either. Ofc they aren’t the same thing, but depending on your task and constraints, both a MacBook or a Framework can attend your needs.
I can agree with you that they don’t have the same position, but users are going to see a Framework laptop on mainstream media and are going to compare options. A few might try out, and even though they’ll get frustrated, they might now understand the ideology around open hardware.
Yes. I think jobs where any laptop would do will get better ROI from the most run of the mill machine, whichever it is.
Back in the day it was the Dell XPS and Thinkpad lines, right now I see the MBA and Surface added to those. Economies of scale just work that way, and these machine will be aimed at perfectly doing the 20% that cover 80% of the requirements, Pareto style.
Does Framework get mainstream media treatment ? I thought they weren't even sold in stores, and only got press from TheVerge and other tech focused media. So the target market ends up being people dedicated enough to pay thousands sight unseen from a smallish company that will deliver in batches months after the order.
I automatically bundle Linus Tech Tips into mainstream, mainly because how much people with no hands-on experience (i.e.: bring their laptops to a shopping center’s IT shop to upgrade RAM/SSD) around me watch it. I hope that eventually they are encouraged enough to try stuff on their own, and if they are in that mindset, framework is the best brand they can buy.
Any car in Brazil already has to cope with a high ethanol mix (it’s now 30%, with plans for 35%), so not sure how they are making something “more accessible” when everything else in the market already has it.
Do they have some innovative measuring system? A better way to switch between ICE and electric based on emissions/cost/range?
I honestly completely ignore my purchased home value. It is not a regular asset because you have to make use of it, you can’t really liquidate it without a substantial change in your life (renting, marrying, going homeless, etc). If you trade it, you’d have to use that money to get some other housing. My strategy in my personal finances is to threat the house as if I’m renting. The money is gone from the balance, the equity isn’t tracked anywhere.
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