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This works, but I go to run docker compose and it won’t do anything because I have to configure something. But the documentation says configuration is optional.

I configure the data path, but it still won’t launch. This is because the environment section needs to be removed or commented out if I’m not specifying anything with in it.

Ok, fine. Now the container launches and I can access it, but won’t do anything. Apparently it needs to function over HTTPS, which it turns out is a rabbit hole.

I get homebrew installed, get mkcert installed, but it's not entirely clear what I'm supposed to do with that. Then I find out you can just run Actual Budget over HTTP.

I'm not sure self-signing a certificate when I don't know what I'm doing anyway is actually preferable to just using HTTP.

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Dennis

@hwang@social.lol replied · 5 days ago

Ok, so now I can actually use Actual Budget.

So far:

* Keyboard shortcuts, but not for reconciling, which is the one shortcut I use all the time.
* No budget targets/goals, although YNAB's implementation is so strange I'm not even sure that's a bad thing.
* No differentiation between account types, other than on budget or off budget. Don't think I care.
* No budget categories for credit card payments, which I think I prefer.
* Seems to have more interesting/flexible reporting, including report dashboards you can set up.
* Seems like it will pick up on reoccuring transactions, which is something I liked in Lunch Money but YNAB does not have.
* No mobile app. You can save to homescreen which kind of works offline, but only if you're launching it on the local network frequently. Otherwise things get out of sync.

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Dennis

@hwang@social.lol replied · 5 days ago

So I realized I apparently set up docker-compose wrong and the data files were not where I wanted them to be. Here’s where things go really wrong.

I changed docker compose and restarted the container. This does not work. Then I removed the container and docker pulled. This also does not work.

…in the end, the file path was wrong. ./data instead of /data.

I had to log out and log back in, but everything seems fine now. Time to go outside maybe.

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Dennis

@hwang@social.lol replied · 4 days ago

While I could access Actual Budget on my desktop no problem, I couldn't get it to sync again on my phone. It kept throwing an error message. Eventually I just exported the data and re-imported on my desktop and that ended up syncing fine on the phone.

I've got all my March activity and budget set up. Not fun but it is my day job so an hour or two of persistence was enough.

I'll need to see how the web app behaves on my phone without a connection to the server, but I suspect I probably don't care either way.

Really unfortunate I renewed YNAB a month ago.

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Dennis

@hwang@social.lol replied · 3 days ago

Ok, fuck this. I’ve burned several precious leisure hours and I’m no further than I was yesterday WRT getting HTTPS working.

Self-signed certificates don’t seem to work, and I’m not the only one saying that. But the answer is apparently to install even more software that potentially has worse security implications and I’m just not going to do that.

Also, the mobile web version doesn't work at all outside of my home network. Might be related to HTTPS, might not be.

I learned the keyboard shortcuts for copying and pasting in the Linux terminal, so I guess that’s useful?

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