[ale] Linux-based financial tools?

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:15 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> What Linux-based tools do you use to manage bank, brokerage, and other
> financial
> accounts?
>
> I've been looking for a replacement to Quicken since ... 1989. Haven't
> found
> anything except simple leger-type stuff.  Tried beancounter for a few
> months,
> but went back to quicken and their mandated every-3 yr upgrade/downgrade
> cycles.
> Since 2013, getting Quicken to run acceptably under WINE hasn't worked for
> me
> either. It is one of the last 4 things I cannot accomplish on Linux, sadly.
> * Quicken
> * Video editing with EDL cuts that can be manually validated efficiently;
> there
> are many video editors, but NONE, ZERO, NADA support EDL. VideoRedo is the
> tool
> to be replaced.
> * MS-Visio (cough - nothing is close and the 2003 version hasn't been
> improved,
> IMHO)
> * Presentation broadcasting/captures - OBS isn't stable on Linux, IME.
> Works
> great on Windows for some reason.
>

Check Big Blue Button. they presented at ALE once. Looking at it for our
presentations thanks in no small part to the recording ability.

LGPL Licensed too.

>
> Everything else I do is done on non-Windows systems.
> Ideas?
>
>
>
> On 02/08/2016 10:59 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > Bank of America also tells you you’re not liable due to their policies
> >
> >
> >
> > However, I think using debit cards is fairly stupid anyway.   Why give
> random
> > strangers (sales clerks/wait staff/online merchants) direct access to
> your bank
> > account?   Even if the bank gives you back your money you may still have
> the
> > hassle of having checks bounce and/or cleaning up fees for overdrafts.
> >
> >
> >
> > I much prefer to use credit cards and pay them off every month.   If you
> have
> > the discipline to do that you incur no interest charges.   You have the
> benefit
> > of seeing all the charges BEFORE you pay from your bank account and can
> dispute
> > any that aren’t right.  So long as an item is in dispute there is no
> interest on
> > it and assuming the dispute is successful there never will be.
> >
> >
> >
> > One of the things I really like about BofA is they have a way to
> generate random
> > credit card numbers that I can use doing online purchases (or if someone
> says
> > they need a  card to confirm a reservation or the like).   Even better
> is the
> > BofA (ShopSafe) cards:
> >
> > a)      Allow you to set a dollar limit
> >
> > b)      Allow you to set the expiration
> >
> > c)       Are only good at the first vendor that uses the card.  (i.e.
> even if
> > that vendor gets hacked the hacker can’t use the number anywhere else).
> >
>
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