They should make a video called how to be a copy and paste youtuber, but someone else would have to make it first so they can copy it.

I’ve been programming my own little tool that’s perfectly customized to my own special needs

Im oldschool and use Gnucash

No reason for Linux budgeting since it comes completely free (as in beer and as in freedom)!

(sorry could not resist. arrest me for dad-joking)

i love how “asking your peers” or “going on dedicated forums or communities” to ask questions is the most viable option atm.

Not all of those videos are fully AI-generated, at least not entirely. (voices and video itself are real, script is AI-generated) They are still slop content, though.

From what I can tell, most of the voices are real (you can hear changes in microphone types & background noises, reverb, natural stuttering, accent changes, proper tone, etc on many of them) but a lot of the scripts seem AI-generated, along with the actual face in the thumbnail, even when the voice is real.

Most of the videos are being generated by a semi-large media generating organization who just pumps out algorithmically optimized videos. I did see a few, mostly from smaller creators, that were entirely AI-voiced as well, though.

I think most of them were just copying the thumbnail design because it got clicks. Not uncommon on YouTube unfortunately.

For anyone curious, the videos are basically just them scrolling through the websites of each, while reading off a paragraph or two of general information about what each is that has that sort of AI-generated tone and order to it.

The video creation process is literally as simple as:

1. Ask ChatGPT “write me a script for a short video talking about what Actual Budget is vs. Firefly III”
2. Record yourself auto-scrolling slowly through the Actual Budget website, then the same for the Firefly III website
3. Record a voiceover of you just reading word-for-word the script from ChatGPT
4. Slap them on top of each other
5. Clone the thumbnail from the other channels that got the most clicks, just like everyone else is doing, so now all of your videos look the same.

I am not really sure what is going on here, neither do I know the tools and know what you are looking for… But maybe Portfolio Performance?

So I was using money manager ex for a long time. I’m not sure if it fits the FOSS label.

While it took quite a lot of effort to setup and maintain, it was the only application I could find at the time that could let me model my costs into the future and allow me to identify whether any given large bill might impact my available cash flow negatively. I stopped using it because the it needed an atrocious amount of my time to actively track spending. When I gave up I was in the process of setting up some workflows that might facilitate importing the data from my bank more easily but it needed a complete revision to how I had set up the database and the work to standardise tagging of my bank data made me lose interest.

The three you listed seem like they offer pretty similar functionality to MMEX, maybe with more features? I might give them a look in.

This may be no help at all, but instead of having to waste my time watching unnecessarily drawn out videos, I’ve been feeding the links into perplexity and asking it to summarize the video for me. Saves a shitload of time.