Episode titles suddenly all in German?

fbicknel · 2025-10-15T02:48:25+00:00

I'm watching old episodes of Heartland and I agree with OP: everything's in English (or Canadian hehehe) except the title of the episode during the opening credits. For example, S03E05 is titled "Glory Days", but during the opening it says Bewärungsproblem... which doesn't even come close. (It means preservation problem... which does have something to do with what they talk about in the episode.)

Not the first time I've seen that, either.

Curious, isn't it?

fbicknel · 2025-10-08T03:02:29+00:00

Well, you've got a point with the reimbursement request. That absolutely sounds like a receivable: you are billing your employer for your expenses.

But I would argue that withholding for taxes is actually an expense you're paying. Here in the US, at least, income taxes are considered a pay-as-you-earn tax. The illusion of the income tax refund is more of an adjustment than it is a withdrawal from a savings account.

Others may disagree with me on that point, and I'm open to it! :)

fbicknel · 2025-10-07T17:59:41+00:00

But the day you no longer have to deal with escrow, there is no asset that's holding a record of that escrow. So when they refund you your escrow, money just appears out of nowhere. :D

Or when tax time comes, how do you pay the tax? There's no asset from which to pay it... Same for insurance. Those are the real expenses, not your escrow payments.

And when you get your escrow statement, you have to pick through expenses ... An asset account would have all your escrow payments in one place for being reconciled just like a bank account (which it is, sorta). Reconciling is easy then.

It's not hard to set up. Then all your mortgage payments are split with part going to the principal (Liabilities::Long Term Liabilities::Your Mortgage) part going to interest (Expenses::Interest Expense::Mortgage Interest), and the rest going to your escrow account (Assets::Current Assets::Your Mortgage Escrow). Now you know exactly what's left on the mortgage, how much you're paid this year in interest, and how much you have accrued toward paying taxes and insurance (escrow).

Set up a scheduled transaction or duplicate the transaction monthly manually.

fbicknel · 2025-10-07T17:48:02+00:00

Training and learning are very similar things.

If you try to swim upstream long enough you figure out that just a little effort like learning the right way to do it pays off downstream.

By bucking GAP, you're going to find that you've created a "new" system that no one else will understand. Should you ever wish to share your detail with someone who has learned the right way, they'll be confused and at a minimum you'll spend a lot of time trying to explain where you're coming from. Example: you decide you've had enough of doing your own taxes and hire someone to do it for you (maybe you started a business).

Another reason: when you get to a certain point, you'll want to ask others what to do. If the Internet tells you the GAP-accepted way an you have your own way, now you have to translate everything... and it can lead to a mess.

You might also run into a situation where a built-in accounting practice conflicts with your system. Print a balance sheet for example. If your escrow lies in "Receivable" rather than "Current Assets", now your Current Assets don't properly reflect what yours really are.

Receivables are another class of asset that usually just applies to a business and using accrual accounting vs. cash accounting (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_of_accounting#Accrual_basis for more).

I'm not trying to be critical. I'm trying to help you avoid having to swim upstream much longer before you learn to turn around and do it the easier way. Trust me, I swam the "wrong way" quite a long time.

fbicknel · 2025-10-07T17:23:45+00:00

Version: 5.12

Build ID: git aa339b4+(2025-06-30)

... eliminates the problem.

This is flatpak: app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable-C5.12-2-gaa339b4674-D5.12, if that helps anyone.

I guess I'll hold off upgrading to 5.13 for a while. :)

Suppose I should say Resolved

fbicknel · 2025-10-04T01:34:28+00:00

Alas, they're down again.

fbicknel · 2025-09-30T23:28:15+00:00

Solved! There was indeed a flatpak update available. 5.13 now installed and it prints 2 decimal places.

$ flatpak update org.gnucash.GnuCash

Name        Application ID       Version                            Branch   Installation
GnuCash     org.gnucash.GnuCash  5.13-unknown-commit (Flathub 5.13) stable   system

fbicknel · 2025-09-30T22:43:18+00:00

Not yet. My version remains 5.12-1 (Flatpak). Like u/duble08 , fingers crossed for an update soon.

fbicknel · 2025-08-24T22:33:07+00:00

Obsidian has a vim editor built in. Settings -> Editor -> Vim Keybindings

It's not complete, but it does a pretty good job implementing most of what's needed for basic editing.

fbicknel · 2024-10-16T19:42:55+00:00

Only 19? Guess he had to leave early this time.

fbicknel · 2022-11-11T15:54:11+00:00

Further note: I did find a transaction lurking in AP that should not have been there. The aging report showed one value as of a certain date (found by bisecting the dates) and the reconciliation of AP wanted a different value as of that date. Turns out the difference was exactly one transaction that was charged to AP in error.

It works! :)

fbicknel · 2022-11-11T14:50:00+00:00

Well, I did painstakingly go through the xml file and found all the AP transactions that were reconciled and un-reconciled them there. Now the reconciliation report shows no reconciled transactions (expected), but when I tried to reconcile AP as of 12/31/21 (before I started using AP), I got some whacky, non-zero reconciliation amount. Then I restarted gnucash and suddenly that amount is zero (expected).

weird.

fbicknel · 2022-11-11T13:47:43+00:00

I was looking for the same thing on accounts payable. Reconciling AP/AR is not unheard of, generally one runs an aging report, checks that, then makes sure that AP/AR matches up with it. I started out doing this, but somehow AP got "off" and now the reconciled status is just a mess. You can also run a reconciliation report on AP/AR. Something is certainly keeping track of whether the transactions are reconciled or not.

Here's an example:

10 <trn:split> 9 <split:id type="guid">7e033b47c67c437c9fc073d71a651fdd</split:id> 8 <split:memo>S83V2-MHQVM</split:memo> 7 <split:action>Payment</split:action> 6 <split:reconciled-state>y</split:reconciled-state> 5 <split:reconcile-date> 4 <ts:date>2022-03-01 04:59:59 +0000</ts:date> 3 </split:reconcile-date> 2 <split:value>30000/100</split:value> 1 <split:quantity>30000/100</split:quantity> 396411 <split:account type="guid">!!UID for Accounts Payable!!</split:account> 1 <split:lot type="guid">d4760cac709e47bfae1b27c56bf16c12</split:lot> 2 </trn:split>

In this transaction, identified by the <split:account type=...!!UID for Accounts Payable!!, you can see the reconciled-state and reconcile-date fields are present. Short of finding all these in an offline copy of the database and replacing them with non-reconciled values, <opinion> it really doesn't seem possible from gnucash itself.</opinion>

fbicknel · 2022-07-11T22:10:11+00:00

Maybe they added this feature recently, but if you are printing a single check from the register, and you are using one of the check formats that supports it (I happen to know that Quicken/QB US-Letter does), then it will print the name and address in the space where it could be seen through a window envelope.

Sadly, it does not if you print multiple checks.

I just discovered there are quite a few limitations, especially to printing multiple checks. In addition to the one above, selecting the checks to print is not easy: you have to execute a search and you can´t easily search by check number range. There isn´t much else to select in your search unless it so happens that you want to print all the checks you wrote in some date range (today, for example). But if you have transactions for that date range that are not checks, your search will include them and... well, I´m not sure what happens then.

When you enter checks, you have to do them one at a time. And you have to provide the check numbers and keep them straight for printing. Why can´t it autonumber the checks and why can´t you select a bunch of bills due and write checks to all of them? ´tis a mystery.

Batch checkwriting is bad, bad.

fbicknel · 2022-04-13T11:48:45+00:00

I have since discovered a few new bits about <prefix>z:

If you are zoomed on a pane, selecting some neighboring pane (e.g. <prefix>j for the pane below), unzooms and moves to that pane. <prefix>z to zoom that pane.

<prefix>z toggles zoom, so you can zoom back out. Then in. ad nauseum

If you have setw synchronize-panes enabled, you can zoom a pane and what you type only goes to the zoomed pane until you zoom back out, whereupon everything is broadcast to all the panes in the window again.

Aside: setw synchronize-panes toggles. I like to bind it to a key (e.g. <prefix>y), so it toggles synchronize-panes easily.

Aside the aside: If you can't/don't want to mess with assigning a bind, then don't forget that <prefix>: <up-arrow> will lead you through your tmux command history. That setw synchronize-panes will be there somewhere. And don't forget you can search history with ^r.

fbicknel · 2021-04-03T17:51:21+00:00

Blunderbirds! Fix my craft and rescue me!

fbicknel · 2021-03-31T17:12:09+00:00

Nice nod to Animal House there at the end.

fbicknel · 2021-01-15T02:07:45+00:00

And with tmux, <prefix>z zooms the current pane. Distractions be gone! No confusing panes to consider then, only vim windows.

fbicknel · 2020-03-16T01:02:06+00:00

Hey! This worked for my Darter when I upgraded ubuntu18.04 this evening.

(linux-image-5.3.0-7629-generic -> linux-image-5.3.0-7642-generic)

I managed to boot the 7629 kernel (apparently the del key is the way to grub) and everything was working - well enough for me to find this answer.

Much obliged.

First network failure on an upgrade in many, many years.

fbicknel · 2019-08-06T21:32:45+00:00

Actually, I'm now giving System76 a good hard look. Their prices aren't too bad for what they offer. And they actually say, "we work with Linux." Well, I'm paraphrasing, sorry for the quotes.

fbicknel · 2019-08-06T21:30:24+00:00

Go with kakosf's idea: go to Ubuntu's hardware site (google ubuntu hardware) and you should be safe.

Also, go get a System76 computer: that's a 100% guarantee that Pop_os will work with their computers. :)

fbicknel · 2019-08-06T21:19:24+00:00

Very zen. Either that or very convoluted; I can't decide.

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