Yup.

As awful as it is, YouTube’s disdain for its viewers isn’t really the big dealbreaker for me. It’s their disdain for their content creators. If creators were treated like first-class citizens as much as ad sellers and copyright holders holders are, I’d absolutely subscribe to Premium. Creators get three strikes, but copyright trolls can submit as many bogus claims as they want. Ad companies get to dictate what videos their ads can and can’t appear on, but creators have to put up with whatever ads YouTube decides should run on their videos. All this despite creators being far more critical to YouTube’s success than ads.

• Always check the Subscriptions page first
• Check Watch Later list, after that
• scroll the Home page, after that

Have never seen a link to a “Trending” page or a “Trending Now” list in any of those spots.

Goddamnit, why can’t we get a militia that does some PRODUCTIVE sabotage?

I’m not really sure that being open source here means much of anything, but an SO alternative definitely sounds good. Thanks for the tip.

Submitted. Thanks for the heads up.

Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn’t willing to cross.

Not that anyone really believed Elon isn’t calling all the shots here.

I read it to mean that this method has confirmed “almost no real person has spoken to me”.

I don’t do budgeting, per-se. For personal expenses, the idea of pre-planning everything we’re going to spend just seems like overkill. Maybe that’s just cause we’re not close enough to the poverty line for real financial hardship. But I find a reactive approach works well, rather than proactive.

I keep an accounting ledger that I update every 1-2 weeks. The ledger is just a big Excel (actually LibreOffice Calc) file that I setup with some formulas and pie charts to make it easy to see when expenses are outpacing income, and what our biggest expenses are if we need to cut down for a while (spoilers: it’s utilities and food).

I’ve tried a handful of different free accounting applications in the past, but never found one I liked for the above purposes. I ended up starting a project to make my own, like a year ago, but I haven’t gotten around to finishing it. The spreadsheet approach has been working well enough. All the custom app would do is help automate the data entry.