I don’t speak German (just lurk and translate from /all), but I knew immediately what this was about, and I hung my head in frustration. 😫

I was sitting here like “I didn’t know Italy was part of the US” because the title sucks ass, so here’s the bit you are looking for

sent wire transfers through US financial institutions to pay North Korea

Man, did you pick the wrong road to chill on…

Tru fax

Company: “we made a new product that is better than our old product!”

Tech reviewers: collective gasp “unheard of! unprecedented! truly a first for the industry.”

Mad flex fam fr fr

there is just one

Well it’s cloudflare, not cloudsflare. Maybe overcasthosting, or sunblockservers…

Two-lane, no-passing, winding mountain road: “it’s showtime” 😎

Everyone: flies straight off the cliff

…whoosh

and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself

A vocal bunch bitched about this, but I’ve had the 6+7+8 Pro pixels (with under-screen sensors) and I’ve never had an issue, all ordered during product announcement. Family (who I hand-down when I upgrade) have never complained either. I use my phone near constantly and unlock actually hundreds of times a day. 🤷‍♂️

I want cash since I can buy whatever I want (dildos, cocaine, whatever) or I can pay off debt, which is huge for my situation. Buying something for me is pointless as if I wanted it and thought it was a decent price, I’d have bought it already myself. But giving me some financial wiggle-room and thereby easing the stress on me is a huge benefit.

And gc come with lots of issues - initial fee for purchase, expiration dates, limited to one store / some stores don’t take “universal” visa/mc gc, I can’t go to the bank and deposit a gc. It forces me to either work around it (above, additional fees) or purchase something that I otherwise would not. It literally forces people to make poor financial decisions. That’s not a gift, that’s a burden.

It sounds like you’re in a good position financially, and that’s great. But not all of us are. If someone gave me a certificate for a Disney vacation or the like, I’d actually beat them. I need help, not belittling. Cash works for those in all situations.

XD

As a disabled dude: lmfao this is great

It’s all good :) I reverted back to kubuntu and all is well. I hope things improve for you!

cheapest is $670

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It’s the best thing period, there’s no fuckups on the item then. It took my family fucking years to comprehend that holy fuck I’m an adult who can buy their own shit whenever I want. Trying to guess what I might need or want when I buy things when I need or want them, AND telling them “just cash, thanks” and NOT GETTING CASH but stuff I had to return, is fucking awful. It tells the person that you don’t listen, that you think you know better than them, and that you are confident that you think you’re so correct in your gift choice that the first two can be ignored.

A few years ago, I needed a replacement office/gaming chair. I selected the chair, sent the person the link to Amazon, told them to click the coupon so they’d save, that I researched this chair and it’s the best under $200. Xmas rolls by, there’s an obvious chair wrapped in the room. Except it wasn’t the chair I specified - it was somehow both a more expensive and shittier chair, that was “on sale” and they believe ‘more money’ means ‘more better’. $500+ and the pos barely lasted through the ONE YEAR warranty. I had to buy my own replacement, and the original chair was still serviceable but I didn’t have it now so fuck me, now I’m spending my money because you don’t listen to me. I almost declined the chair in front of everyone and their gifts, but they threw away the fucking box, like fucks sake how dense can you be.

I ended up buying a fancy, expensive as fuck chair, with a 12y warranty that is supposed to be good for my back. 3x cost but 12x warranty. They have given up and just give me what I ask for now, like fucking finally. That only took ~25 years.

Plus it’s kinda awkward for some things. “Hey mom, yeah so I’ve been looking at some dildos from bad dragon, think you could be a pal and slide an XL David in natural colors with a blended soft/medium firmness under the tree for me? Trying to stretch my ass for my Master. Thanks.”

And no, gift cards aren’t cash. Gift cards fucking suck unwashed hairy donkey balls. Now I have to use PayPal from my account, add the card, send you the money minus 3% fee on top of any fees you paid to convert cash to an annoying piece of plastic, then login to your account, send the money back to me, then deposit it into my bank account. This could have been a $0 fee check that took 30 seconds but nooooooo you had to go to a store and buy a gift card and pay $4.95 so that I lose $7 on the transaction process. Fuck gift cards. I can’t pay my credit card, that I used to buy what I actually want, with fucking gift cards.

Just. Give. Cash.

I have the same plan, but use it for places that insist on getting your phone number, that don’t need my phone number. So they get my second number that gets used a few times a year.

Tello is my second line provider, they are quite good. I’m worried that tmo will squeeze them out, or end their agreement or something. Tmo is already doing shenanigans to lycra mobile, afaik, and they ate up metropcs, mint, and ultra.

I trust tello. I don’t trust tmo.

USM repurposed an old subscription email system for their 2FA, and if you had opted-out of the advertising before, well you don’t get 2FA codes then. I spent a few days figuring this out with support. They removed 2FA from my account and explained the situation. A year later, I re-enabled 2FA, because SURELY they’d have fixed it by now, right? This was ~3 and 2 years ago, respectively.

I’m still locked out of the account because they never fixed it. If that’s how they handle their systems, I want no fucking part of it. Can’t pay me enough to put a number I care about under their control.