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Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/

I scrolled down a bit more and got this: https://i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screenshot-20251118-150802.png

Scrolled down some more and this: https://i.postimg.cc/v1khnhRp/Screenshot-20251118-151325.png

I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don't think I've ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.

Anyone have a good comparison video? I'm just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use :)

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[–] not_me@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You tube as research platform ?🤔

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Once upon a time yes. But then once upon a time the whole internet. I used to hate watching videos for learning but I have cognitive issues now that makes visual learning easier for me. Actually written is now extremely difficult for me. So I will use reviews of things to see how they work before I try them out myself. Just a shame that its so hard to find a real human being to learn from online anymore.

[–] anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Start a no server demo here and you can try Actual out yourself:
https://demo.actualbudget.org/

That way you can try out the Starting fresh steps for real or go through their Tour interactively instead of just reading:
https://actualbudget.org/docs/getting-started/starting-fresh/
https://actualbudget.org/docs/tour/

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have, but I find it easier to understand if there's a human being explaining things as well. I can flounder pretty quickly now if I'm just dropped into it without any guidance :(

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No shit. The most gen z comment...

[–] not_me@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

No shit ,im born before epoch time in computing , Never used yt for research ,used lib then , now annas lib en Z lib