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I wish there was a good looping software that good take any song and cut the perfect infinite loop of it automatically.

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[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I want an app that existed, and was killed before it's time by Intuit. Level Money

You put in (and it learned over time) your expenses, and it gave you a single number which was how much you could spend per day. It adjusted as you went, so if you under/overspent it adjusted.

It wasn't perfect, but was the last time I had a firm handle on my finances.

Fuck you Intuit, burn in every hell imagine able for your myriad of sins including this minor one comparatively.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

Have you tried Cashew? I've tried tons of apps and it's easily the best

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

I work in IT and we get at least a dozen broken QuickBooks tickets a week. I fucking hate intuit and their products

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Have you looked at your banks budgeting software? One of the key features mine has is it learns how transactions are categorized, so future ones will be categorized the same way even if the amount changes. While it’s far from perfect, it is a huge factor in making useful.

I used to try various money management tools but this made a huge convenience difference

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

This kinda locks you into one bank which is not ideal

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I use CapitalOne, they have some things but nothing exactly right.

I have also tried every budgeting software under the sun, and Level was the only one that worked for me sadly. I've thought about using vibe coding (not a mobile dev) to makey own android app to do something similar but also super lazy lol.

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Ever tried the old over engineered Excel doc trick?

Sucks because you have to do manual data entry but you'll get whatever level of granular control your heart desires.

I'm sure there's ways to design something similar to the auto leveling budget effect you liked, but it's beyond my skills.

[–] londos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)
  • A weather widget on Android that shows all of current temp, high/low for the day, and high/low remaining for the day.

  • I don't think this needs to be a whole app, or just a feature within a camera app, but I want the ability to underlay an existing image at say 10% transparency on screen while taking a photo. It doesn't get saved, I just want to be able to use it as a guide for framing things, like documenting changes on sites or recreating old photos for fun.

  • I want to be able to open a line of communication to another driver nearby. Maybe a range of 100ft. I don't know if it's Bluetooth or what. "Hey your taillight is out" "hey coming up in your blindspot" "hey, please can I merge I'm not trying to be a dick" "hey is this the exit for Wawa?"

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

CB radio is pretty popular depending on where you live. You'll start recognizing antennae everywhere once you get a kit and start messing around with it.

Won't hit everyone but it's pretty fun community usually. Trucks and just general weirdos, the occasional douche canoe but mostly good

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Open camera has that. Settings > Camera preview... > Ghost image

[–] londos@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Yo. Yooooo! Thank you!

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The amount of road rage induced shit talking that would be done via car-to-car communication would outweigh every benefit it could provide.

[–] londos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I won't deny the potential for abuse. On the other hand, I think a lot of road rage comes from the disinhibiting effect of being alone in your car. I'd love to see a study to see if road rage can be reduced by letting people communicate.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I want to be able to open a line of communication to another driver nearby. Maybe a range of 100ft. I don’t know if it’s Bluetooth or what. “Hey your taillight is out” “hey coming up in your blindspot” “hey, please can I merge I’m not trying to be a dick” “hey is this the exit for Wawa?”

I think about this every time I'm on the highway, it would be so fun/useful.

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

I said it in another reply but I'll say it again here, CB radio is awesome. Especially on the highway there's tons of trucker chatter and just general nonsense.

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[–] flabbergast@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I want MoviesFad back... Greatest movie-app ever!

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Navigation app the prioritizes things important to me. I'll got an extra distance if I turn less or I right turn only or I have no speed bumps.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Brouter used to be capable of this, but it was configured with JSON.

I wish for something for summer months, I don't care if the route is longer if I walk in the shade.

Edit: it's a full blown programming language https://brouter.de/brouter/index.html

[–] flabbergast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I'm looking for an app (on Android) that not only keeps track of birthdays, but also lets you add an extra date if that person has passed away. So it will display someone's age correctly instead of just counting on. And give reminders of both their birth- and their dying day. If it exists, please let me know...

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 20 hours ago

ed(1) but with a left pane and right pane, where the left had the content of the file and scrolled to where you are editing and the right is just regular ed output.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish there'd be a proper family tree generator, I've been searching for one for so long. All the things existing now seem to be old and made to create actual existing family trees with lots of limitations, but I'd really need a tool to use for world building and that kind of stuff. To allow you create profiles with a lot of data for the characters in the tree, so you could view the info in some easy way, maybe by clicking to open an info window, or something like that. To be able to easily link them to each other with other things than just family relations (like friends, lovers, enemies...). Being able to properly put a picture on the profiles so it would show there in the tree, not just a name. Just being able to properly view the whole family tree at once by zooming in and out would be so nice, and to link it with other family trees etc....

There are games that have some family tree functions, but I don't need nor want a gaming experience. I want to do these things freely, not with having to play some shit to be able to unlock something, or to have family trees generated around just played characters. I've tried using mind map generating stuff as well, but they have limited features, and it's difficult to just create branches with them since everything is supposed to link back to one single thing.

If anyone knows about something like this existing somewhere, please do tell me!

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

MS Vizio can do what you're talking about. It's a flow chart designer on crack. I'd bet there's quite a few modules designed for family tree building you can get for it.

Instead of a family tree planner, maybe start looking at flow chart builders? Or workflow planners or project management schedulers. They all can do something like what you're talking about, even if they're not directly designed for purpose of family tree diagrams.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Thank you, I'll look into those!

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

An app that can fix audio in movies to make dialog easier to hear and understand.

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[–] Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A program that allows me to search through a large drive and see if there are any duplicates of congruent files on them, even if those files have different names but are otherwise identical, i.e. copies elsewhere on the drive.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

An app for Android (Google TV) that lets you change the volume on a per-application basis. Like a mixer. I want to be able to set Disney+ to 200%, Netflix to 130% and Youtube to 80%.

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