@FalkAppel ich schaue mir #kmymoney auch gerade mal an. Am schwierigsten wird #AqBanking zu konfigurieren sein. Unter Linux ist das die Schnittstelle zum Bankkonto für alle Finanz-Apps...

Weekly Notes 49 2025

Busy Work Week

I am exploring Observability. Reading books, blog posts on that. With Grafana, we can do all the monitoring/alerting magics. Will explore more on this.

Books Completed

Digital Minimalism by Carl NewPort

This book explains how the social media has been taking all our time. But, most of us are hooked with social media for work or pleasure. With adding mindfulness and hard limits for the distractions, we can gain our time.

Distraction free phone and browser

After reading the book, I added the apps – ScreenZen and Stay Free. ScreenZen adds time delay for the distracting apps. Stay free prevents reels, short videos, whatsapp status etc. With these, my phone is just a dump phone with whatsapp, telegram and maps enabled. Switched the phone to greyscale mode, to make it dull.

Installed the firefox addons FBCleaner, Undistracted to hide all the content from facebook, x.com. We can only write on these platforms. can not read any other content.

These are helping me to stay focused on the tasks and reading.

French Learning

Learning French is going interesting. The classes are going like roller coaster. I am trying to learn the basics well. Adding new words and grammar to my reading/writing practise.

Toronto Tamil Book Fair 2025

Dec 6,7 2025 Saturday and Sunday were well spent with Toronto Tamil Book Fair. Got around 20 stalls. 6 books releases. We bought books good enough to read for this entire winter. Happy to see many friends and writers there.

Wrote a detailed post in tamil here – https://tshrinivasan.blogspot.com/2025/12/toronto-tamil-book-fair-2025-moments.html

Photos – https://photos.app.goo.gl/QPHDeBNFZEbqipEt9

Accounts with KMyMoney

I wanted to capture my income, expense details on a organized system for a long time. Was using spreadsheet so far. Tried ledger with Emacs. Seems have to type more. After explored GnuCash, I ended with KMyMoney. It is bit confusing to learn the double entry system. but once Learned by using KMyMoney, capturing the details daily become easy. It gives required reports and charts.

Winter Activities

I am conducting weekly free chess hours on Monday evening and board game hours on Thursday evening, at my condo apartment, for kids. We have to put lot of efforts to keep the winter days active. Missing the hot Chennai days.

#chess #distraction #kmymoney #tamilBookFair #toronto #winter

Started to use #KmyMoney of #KDE to track my financial transactions.

Double entry system is little hard. But entries for last 5 days somehow.

Do we have any KmyMoney users here?
Share Any tips n tricks to follow.

Mit #KMyMoney Version 5.2.0 vom 21. Juni 2025 wechselte das Projekt zu #Qt6. Allerdings basierte da noch #AqBanking (beziehungsweise das Modul #gwenhywfar) auf #Qt5. Damit funktionierte das Online-Banking mit KMyMoney nicht mehr.

Die Entwickler:innen von AqBanking und KMyMoney habe das aber schnell gefixt. Zumindest bei #ArchLinux stehen die aktualisieren Pakete für ein reibungsloses Online-Banking zur Verfügung:

• KMyMoney 5.2.0-5
• Gwenhywfar 5.12.1-1

#OpenSource