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Also please do not suggest me tools that were made for US businesses, because tax rules are very different here

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I would honestly be willing to pay a pretty good amount of money for an open-source bookkeeping system that can handle my needs as a freelancer in NL, and that's actually usable and intuitive enough to not make my taxes a nightmare

(And no, 'string together a bunch of CLI tools' does not meet that bar)

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For some fucking reason it will only ever let you enter amounts in one of the two currencies involved, and it's usually the inconvenient one

You are running on a fucking computer, I should not need to break out the calculator and manually calculate exchange rates

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It's the yearly "fighting with GnuCash's completely absurd currency exchange handling" day today

I saw a microbiologist today.

Much bigger than I expected.

last boost, tangentially

the range of services where it is /technically possible/ to run your own, but this is heavily discouraged, heavily obscured, and|or intentionally made difficult (e.g. Firefox Sync, Signal[*]) should be called

(*: with Matrix and Mastodon (n.b. not fedi, Mastodon) moving in that direction with matrix.org. and mastodon.social.)

When you think about it, it's kind of absurd that everybody is just *expected* to be good at cleaning their house, an expectation that doesn't seem to exist for other skills

The urge ot illegally paint on pedestrian crossings in places that should have one

we have reached an era when the boomer cartoons are right

windows started going downhill when they removed space cadet pinball

@chjara If I wanted to steal military secrets, I would just add a crappy version of them in the game and wait for the inevitable leak of classified data.

Did you know?

In the UK, Intel and AMD sell microcrisps.

I learned this year that "being nice" is one of the oppressor's most important tools in modern society.

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