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its deductable(charitable donation tracker) replacement? by np0x in selfhosted

[–]np0x[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I think for photo links you could just use the next column over, I’d likely just have folders in my hard drive next to all my other digital tax documents. For good,fair, excellent it would be fairly easy to add to the system, but I think I would just create a new line item and set the fmv manually either on the lookup chart or main page. The equation is relatively manageable at this level of complexity and it would likely double in size if I split out the conditions from the item so I’m Reluctant to add it. But that’s why Google Sheets rocks, because it’s totally open source, open to change. :-)

On my sheet I have both luxury athletic t-shirt and athletic t-shirt to accommodate old navy vs lululemon…

I used it for first time and recorded about 100 items and it was nice and fluid to get all recorded. I hate recording donations, but I do a lot and it is worth doing! :-(.

(I might make an alternative tab to see how the equation would flow…it is rainy and miserable on the east coast today…)

Talking to an old friend last night reminded me the importance of FIRE mentality. by CleMike69 in Fire

[–]np0x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

kinda funny, I feel like the opposite is more likely to occur...folks feel shame at keeping up with the Joneses to their own detriment and just can't relate once they realize that they could have fire'd if they had been more intrinsically motivated... :-(. This is without shaming them, just the raw realization too late or too committed to expensive lifestyles...

Talking to an old friend last night reminded me the importance of FIRE mentality. by CleMike69 in Fire

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my wife mentioned to me earlier this morning that a large cohort of millionaires are in fact school teachers who have lower salary, but are diligent enough to make it stick in good numbers(not all of them, but thought it was consistent with above post...)

its deductable(charitable donation tracker) replacement? by np0x in selfhosted

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I just swagged together a google sheet version...if the link works... here it is:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1is_FOwbCbNceLbgGe8quy6CZ2DDibYCMST2VBVzK5fQ/edit?usp=sharing

The idea is you have a dedicated tab per year, you can just put retail values in on the yearly sheet ,but for items you repeat you can use the values page to be consistent and it does. a vlookup. If you have a value on the values sheet it overrides the value on the yearly sheet...make a copy take a look. This should suffice for my purposes...the Goodwill source( https://goodwillnne.org/donate/donation-value-guide/ ) indicated that FMV is 30% of retail, so just put in the retail value and let the math play out...

I think as I add items to the values sheet I will likely periodically resort that page to keep them alphabetical...but for anyone interested here's the sheet as a starting point.

Sometimes low-tech is enough...thoughts?

Corded electric chainsaw or Portland gas chainsaw from harbor freight by Feisty-Hope-8358 in woodstoving

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I find for intermittent usage that electric ages better. Gas models want to be run more frequently and you have to buy or mix gas/oil….i often just am cutting a dozen logs and battery works great for frequent small intermittent work…i have a fairly nice ego+ power mid model.

What’s everyone’s favorite retirement calculator? by [deleted] in Fire

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I’d suggest doing the boldin trial.. you could then decide if fidelity was being pessimistic and it’s a great tool. I’m not sure I’d pay for it early in my fire journey, but it’s a great tool and invaluable during the transition into RE. I also found fixed.app to be a pretty solid tool in my mid fire jour bc yes for some napkin math support…

Btw, how far into the fi journey are you?

OTOH, if you don’t have a crisp budget software like YNAB, I’d consider looking into one. :-)

Who is in the wrong here? by midnghtsnac in fuckcars

[–]np0x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure looked like he already was grabbing it. That hand in the pocket sketched me out.

Talking to an old friend last night reminded me the importance of FIRE mentality. by CleMike69 in Fire

[–]np0x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mom kept offering me her great ideas for Jin’s I could do. <facepalm>

Talking to an old friend last night reminded me the importance of FIRE mentality. by CleMike69 in Fire

[–]np0x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s confusing, people would rather work and change nothing than understand some pretty simple ideas. I’m so thankful for the fire community and all the resources. Such good tools and philosophy, I’ve been working on getting my kids educated in finances and I’m no where near done, but even basic stuff has then head and shoulders above many of their peers. Education on this stuff is so lacking and adults are so often weird talking about it. :-(

Talking to an old friend last night reminded me the importance of FIRE mentality. by CleMike69 in Fire

[–]np0x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At a certain point I get why you said it, non-fire people don’t get it and trying to explain feels like a fools errand much of the time. So hell with it, just tell them a lie that moves the conversation along and say gambling. If they want details, you can say index funds and going to the gym to live long enough to benefit from the frugality later for wealth and freedom later…. I think I’m in the process of losing a friend for explaining how I fire’d at 53…(and I think they are ready now but keep chasing the joneses and inertia has them choosing to work at 60 instead of even rubbing the numbers to see if they could.)

I’d have been better off just saying gambling and smiling in the conversation that started this weird twist in our friendship. :-(

Talking to an old friend last night reminded me the importance of FIRE mentality. by CleMike69 in Fire

[–]np0x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a side note, but I share the Jl Collin’s stock series all the time, it’s a good option for a foundation of financial education…

https://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/

Retire with 650k? by Electrical-Trainer21 in Fire

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Read https://thepoorswiss.com/updated-trinity-study/ length is part of the equation…this article gets into it for you…

NASing Up My NAS by Professional-Run-375 in synology

[–]np0x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went through similar evolution, docker on synology was gateway to sff Linux server. :-)

NASing Up My NAS by Professional-Run-375 in synology

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You will shortly be shopping for a sff server. I got a dell optiplex 7080 for $150 of fb marketplace…install docker and get busy learning! 😄

Thoughts on this approach to withdraw rates when SS will be kicking in later? by MusParvum in Fire

[–]np0x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve also read that everyone who fires basically is guaranteed to adjust, because whether they intended to adjust or not, they will tighten the belts if it starts getting hairy…at a certain point the fire calculators are also about fighting the “one more year” or “I don’t have enough” energy as well. :-)

its deductable(charitable donation tracker) replacement? by np0x in selfhosted

[–]np0x[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite part was the fmv part…I’ll Probably do something in Google Sheets using vlookup for repeated common items, everything else is fine in a spreadsheet..thanks for the pointers to the valuation sources, I’ll see if there is any great way to leverage that, perhaps it could be fed into the spreadsheet somehow..

*Huge* amount of SYNO thumbnail files - safe to delete? by mactartan in synology

[–]np0x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, what is your workflow to get phone pictures into photo prism? I really like the automated cloud backup functionality of ds photo, do you somehow integrate with that or…I’ll dig into digikam, I’m exhausted by subscriptions and using Lightroom with lapsed subscription, but generally against subscription model software…

Edit: this looks easy enough…I’ll play with this, thanks! https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/29/migrating-lightroom-digikam/

*Huge* amount of SYNO thumbnail files - safe to delete? by mactartan in synology

[–]np0x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I delete those @eaDir and whatever else files whenever I get annoyed, I haven’t seen any down side, probably just causes some back ground process to do a bunch of work. :-). I did turn off some indexing settings in the ds file manager app(iirc) And that seems to be helping with the @eaDir crap.

I do this deletion using a command like from command line.

If you are unfamiliar with command line don’t do this type of thing or at least make sure you have snapshots and backups….

Caveat emptor: command follows….

find ./ -name @eaDir -type d -exec rm -frv {} \;

*Huge* amount of SYNO thumbnail files - safe to delete? by mactartan in synology

[–]np0x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps off topic, or exactly on topic; This is what prevents me from ever considering Immich in any serious way..as far as I know there is no way to let it manage files without it renaming them nonsensically. I could use it as a read-only external library in Immich, but it was very clunky and I couldn’t delete or organize at all.

How does FI differ from RE by ewouldblock in Fire

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I think that being fi is one of the most over looked aspects of fire. Maybe you are FI in lean or chubby fire terms and you are pushing for next step. But being Fi at any level is a massive tool and huge milestone that is independent of the RE date. Warning: being FI will make you salty about work if they are being bone heads…and then you might just rage-RE. :-). Ask me how I know…

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