SamuelRJankis

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24511890

The fact that this is a real image is infuriating

20-01-2025. This is a real image

his July, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) expanded its SimpleFile services (phone, digital, and paper) to invite more than 500,000 eligible lower-income individuals to file their return and potentially gain access to important benefit and credit payments.

This automatic tax filing national pilot targets individuals who have never filed a tax return or who have a gap in their filing history, and builds upon the success of small-scale SimpleFile pilots previously undertaken by the CRA.

In early 2024, the CRA invited more than 1.5 million individuals with a lower income or a fixed income and who are in a simple tax situation that remains unchanged from year to year to use SimpleFile by Phone, double the number from the previous year. To date, more than 90% of the invitees have filed their tax return using a variety of filing methods the CRA offers.

SimpleFile is a key Budget 2024 commitment and the CRA is on track to further increase the number of invitations to two million for tax season 2025.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17302131

A long-awaited change to Canadian banking is coming

Open banking works by giving consumers the option to share their banking data with other firms. The most common use is granting access to budgeting or money management apps and companies, so that a customer can pool different bank accounts and credit cards into one place.

Ah yes, finally what we've been missing in our financial system! 🤭

• Manual WDT is a perfectly valid method.
• If you're chasing the pinnacle of Blind Shakers is certainly worth a try.
  • Yield - This one is pretty clear for the most part.
  • Workflow - As someone that owns that 2 different Duomo I can say I'm not a huge fan of the manual WDT. That said the clanging some metal together in the morning is also not ideal
  • Consistency - I think this one I have the most significant difference in opinion. While calling the Blind shaker method the most consistent is valid my interpretation is WDT could also be called more consistent baring some wild outliers 13% of the time.

Possible difference makers between the two:

• Conical vs Flat burr
• Modern precision basket
• Extraction method with machine(Lance had a rather specific per-infusion method on a Decent)

Sources:

The Real Sprometheus- ESPRESSO ANATOMY - Which Distribution Tool Is Most Effective?

Lance Hedrick - BEST WAY TO PREP ESPRESSO?: The Finale (WDT, WW Blind Shaker, Autocomb, NCD

Feature packed espresso scale that lacks intangibles. At the current price of $50 CDN certainly worth a try if you get it from somewhere with easy returns, probably should get a extra 3rd party warranty if you can.

For espresso I think this scale does everything that most people would want out of a scale. The shortcomings is really how well it does those things and how long it will work.

    Pro's:
- Auto turn on at 100g (Favorite feature)
- Fairly bright display
- Relatively reliable espresso auto timing
- Notably loud
- Flat bottom. e.g. No foot nubs 


   Con's:
- Durability 
- What seems like zero post sales support
- Responsiveness
- 0.2g off calibration out of box


  Responsiveness measurements in seconds. 

As with many Mint users I was looking for a alternative when they announced their shutdown.

TLDR: Cashew is pretty good and free

I tested a few of the auto scraping alternatives (YNAB, Wealthica) but even though they were paid they didn't even have all the financial institutions.

Then I looked into manually entry and the top suggestion of Google Forms which turned out to be a pretty limited hack of a solution.

Finally stumbled on Cashew that had a proper mobile app, desktop web app, widgets, csv export. Perk of it also being free and open source(aka FOSS).

The whole app is actually impressively refined and noticeably better than the Mint Android app ever was.

As someone who had about 10,000 transactions in Mint from 2014 I was pretty hesitant on the switching to manual entry but everything is so streamlined it only takes 20 seconds from picking up my phone to entering a transaction once you have things setup.

1. Touch widget
2. Enter title
3. Choose Category
4. Enter amount

Few cons

• Some syncing issues between the Android and Web App

• General lack of documentation.

• When a Main Category has Sub Category it'll add a extra step for the SubCat every time you enter a transaction. Otherwise entering a transaction is 3 steps from a home screen.

Just copying my post from R/Espresso last year for context. I'll add another posts for my one year update.

Seen a lot of posts on this grinder and machine. Just wanted to add my notes as a new coffee drinker/maker

I started my search with the GCP but decided that the Profitec was the way to go given that it was similar price of a fully modded GCP without looking like it has been modded out. Overall I'm pretty happy with the Profitec Go it's pretty feature packed and well built at the price point, but there is a list of things I'd look for if I was looking for a new machine.

Profitec Go

• Really short working area. There's 74.68mm/2.94in clearance when using a bottomless Portafilter
• PID and Pressure gauge location. Being closer to the top and outside would be nice.
• No Preinfusion
• Knob placement for steamer would be more ergonomic on the side. Lever would be better than the knob
• Steam wand is not insulated
• The way the drip tray scrapes metal when pulling it out. Would be nice if one of the surfaces was lined with plastic.
• How the water refilled. This one is mostly due to the placement of the machine for me.

If I was buying a machine again at a similar price point again I'd take closer look at these:

• Ascaso Steel Uno Professional w/ PID V4
• Bellezza Bellona Dual Boiler

Was mostly a toss between Sette 270, DF64 and DF64P. Ended up with the DF64P since it seemed to be the better single dose grinder.

DF64P Grinder

• The way you have to zero it out.
• Drifting zero issue.
• The funnel rattling on the dosing cup
• Fork angle should be what the 3d printed mod is.
• Adjustment dial should be closer to the numbers.

I'll probably be swapping the DF64P out with a Niche zero, Timemore Sculptor, Lagom P64 or Kafatek Monolith Max. Would probably get the latter two used.