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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 197 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh good, I thought this was about the Linux distro.

[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Similarly, I thought this was Mint Mobile -- i just paid for a three month contract to use on my work phone

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is not the mobile thing as well? Way too much stuff called mint...

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 182 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Oh phew, I thought this was Linux Mint

[–] variants@possumpat.io 80 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I thought it was mint mobile

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago

I thought the same, mint mobile. I was like wtf does credit karma have to do with phone service.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 28 points 2 years ago

I thought it was Big Mint. Global supply shortages have wreaked havoc on mojito availability!

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

I thought it was the US Mint, and we’d have no more coins.

[–] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

I thought this was the family of plants called Lamiaceae

[–] padjakkels@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Also thought linux mint

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[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think “Credit Karma” is the name of the next version of Ubuntu.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Same here, got nervous

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[–] Starkstruck@lemmy.world 157 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What I'm gathering from this thread is that too many things are named mint.

[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

I just told my wife Mint was shutting down and she gasped, frozen in shock. I was thinking she was taking it really hard. Took me a minute before I realized she thought I was talking about our favorite Indian restaurant.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I used to use Mint before they got acquired, I stopped in 2012ish for security concerns because back then the way you connected was just giving them your password.

Also it broke all the time and my student loans got stuck while my checking accounts didn't so it ruined my net worth chart which was like 80% of why I liked it.

But, shame it's shutting down even if I didn't like it I'm sure it was useful to others.

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mint very quickly gave me the feeling of original devs cashing out just in time before the new owners found out its intervals were toothpicks intricately held together

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

That's the dream

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[–] yoz@aussie.zone 54 points 2 years ago

Lol comments are hilarious. Everyone thinking of a different Mint

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh man I thought I was going to have to get another mobile provider. But thank goodness it's not about Mint mobile

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

same here, thought my 1 year data top-up was a waste...

[–] jcrabapple@artemis.camp 48 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Good. Mint sucks. Fuck Intuit.

Use Lunch Money or YNAB.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

$100/yr or $15/mo? Wtf

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

YNAB is a waste of money imo. It's literally just a spreadsheet with a bunch of mumbo jumbo to justify you paying for it while still manually doing all the work.

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[–] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago

Oh thank goodness, I thought this was about junior mints.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Pretty much just gone back to a spreadsheet.

insights about spending up and down per category and automatic categorization was pretty nice.

Budget targets were nice.

I've been meaning to look around for something self hosted or FOSS.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

https://actualbudget.com/

I just set this up myself a few days ago, though because it doesn't sync for non-EU banks, I haven't gone further yet.

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[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Oh thank heavens, I thought they were shutting down the economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey

[–] MrTHXcertified@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

To those who have already switched (whether to Credit Karma or another service): What are you using and why do you like it?

[–] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've used !ynab@lemmy.world for a while and love it. It's helped me get out and stay out of debt for 8 years now.

[–] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ew subscription budgeting.

Anyone thinking of looking into this ^ it's a subscription product. Saved you a click.

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[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 22 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Damn I still use this. Now what should I use for budgeting?

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Gnucash can do this and is floss so won't really go away.

[–] Spastickyle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The main draw of Mint for me was how it pulled all transactions from all of my financial institutions. Can GnuCash do that too or is it just a FOSS alternative of QuickBooks?

[–] huginn@feddit.it 9 points 2 years ago

No.

I tried cludging something together with email scraping once but it relied on too many online microservices (zapier etc) and I could never really stabilize it.

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[–] kn33@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I use YNAB and really like it

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[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Praise the Nine I thought this was about US Mint.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought this affected Doublemint gum.

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[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Been wanting to switch to a local-only solution for ages, guess they're forcing me to hurry up :D

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[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, crap. I use mint to track net spending and give me a forward budget. Time to find something new, I guess.

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I liked using mint for budgeting for years. It felt good to have a sold hold of expenses vs expenditures. But then one day the syncing between my primary credit card and mint stopped working. That was the day mint died for me, I use my primary credit card for everything and pay it off every month to build credit. When mint suddenly wasn't allowed to connect to my credit card to get transactions it became useless.

I tried another budgeting service, but it did budgeting completely different approach wise and I just didn't like it. Oh well such is life I guess, everything I love goes away.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

F u c k, that spells fuck.

Whatever happened to the free credit report.com band? I know that they didn't get paid for any of the jingles they wrote and so they tried to sue, but I haven't heard from them since then.

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[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's too bad it's not the US mint. It might help inflation.

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Hello, this is post World War I Germany calling. Please hold, we have Zimbabwe on the phone right now

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