lovable weirdo. kneady girl. mostly harmless. AS208590. she/her. also on fedi @ao@queer.party and twitter @warnvod. ⚧. 📍 Hamburg, DE User: #23282, Registered: 17 Apr 2023
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I do have to disagree on this, good bacon smells alright, tastes great. Not the only food out there that tastes great though, and I don't think it's a great loss if someone chooses to not eat it. (also amusingly most muslims I know dislike the smell.)
how are you cooking it, and to what level? the ones I make never end up tasting dry.
healthcare ideally self-id uk special: no ban from public bathrooms bonus: discrimination protections for work that's pmuch all I care for
they wouldn't sell you life insurance at 90 anyways, they are age-capped
hey if people do it it's fine, not companies tho
uh um gnucash solves this?
who's the fool if I get fooled thrice or more? is it like, fool me odd times shame on you, fool me even times shame on me?
I like the "no amex please", had a pharmacy nearby like that, they had amex acceptance but nicely asked you to not pay with one
now run cemu on it
water is super chill (but not so common out of bottle in most of eu) ice tea, fizzy drinks, alcohol are definitely not ideal but more common to drink outside and easier to clean milk drinks and similar creamy drinks are more likely to be consumed indoors and more likely to stain
i'm not opposed to this change fwiw, I just think maybe stuff that has a large risk of dripping and staining could've been granted an exception.
visual aid (I wiped the cap with a paper towel before I shot the pic and even now it's not not dangerous)
✅ spilled some creamy huel from the cap of a huel bottle onto my shirt shoutouts to EU
aren't they doing both
Jokes on you he did that one already stallman.org/articles/mad... (nsfw and also not very good)
and it's not like I get free time off during scorching hot workdays to go outside, if I have to sit inside I'd rather avoid having it be insufferable.
you not knowing does not mean it does not happen, we have a lot more heat related deaths in europe than in the US. I do agree that they look somewhat ugly but then we can just spec into making them stick out less/blend in more. I've never seen anyone trying to color match it to the building for ex.
it's not just a comfort thing, it's a health thing at this point. it's also more efficient to warm your house with it in winter than using pretty much any other method.
(also lol I bought my pixel 7 for €180, but trade in value for upgrading is apparently €250-350)
we got different colors partly for this reason (black 7 for me, pink 8 for gf)
yeah I have canned food for occasions like that
power cuts are not a thing here, but if that happened for an extended period I could just pull out a camping stove and go to the balcony, yeah. in the video though, Gordon Ramsay had power and a gas cookstove. He just decided to use the fireplace (and fail to melt the cheese).
canonical my beloved
feels weird seeing our hackerspace's influence on here anyhow stream c3cat.de plus wiki.hamburg.ccc.de/club:c3cat:s... for the signs
lol I have come to think of tapping in on one side of train station to tap out on the other (as a passageway of sorts) to be free, and it is, but it interacts amusingly with automatic reloading on ov chipkaart I now have a balance of €29 (vs 9) and have the associated direct debits pending :D
taking a bath at the hotel room
also what sort of hotel has 1000 rooms, in europe that'd put you in the top two digit of largest hotels en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
except I've seen hotel setups that are much more complicated and unusual than the water controls that are common, cheap and simple to understand
new mindcanon: the message of the boy in striped pajamas is that that the author is in favor of more kids dying
being sick sucks so much tbh it's lovely outside and I have so many things I want to do inside but I lack the energy to utilize either
I scored 15/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
zenk yu for traveling with deutsche lufthansa
unsure! ask in the biohacking discord maybe"
cooking up something for the next congress
In case there's any other nerds out there interested in doing contactless payments with their non-mainstream watches, check out this remix that I published (after having it sit on my laptop for like 1.5 years lol). I paid with this everywhere at WHY2025 and it works great.
ok sorry it took me quite a while to find it today, it wasn't even on printables :p I just uploaded my edit too though, so this should be easier for others to use now. Original: www.thingiverse.com/thing:1445083 My remix: www.printables.com/model/138607...
we took an NS intercity from amsterdam to alkmaar, and back, and got our tickets checked on both ends. we just had PDFs with QRs so it was more straightforward tho.
was actually p surprised that ovpay does not do this
tfl had this problem, now they put a charge on your card that they adjust later so even if you cancel the card they can at least get £x out of you. depending on card issuer (well, BIN) reputation the amount varies. my mastercard was iirc £1, my maestro was iirc £20. revolut is likely high too.
that's why she's a 10
I would consider daily driving this otherwise and the rest of specs (new cam, 12gb ram, 256gb storage, usbc) are more aligned with a daily driver than an odd curiosity so yea I think of it less as complaining and moreso as dreaming though
p good specs but a mtk and 4g only? heck
(yeah it's technically a different card on gpay as they issue a virtual number that maps to the same card, but if bank marks tfl as likely fraud on one card I expect them to mark it as likely fraud account-wide)
I had a similar but different issue in london too, there it wasn't google pay rejecting things but instead at some point my bank stopped letting me ride tfl with my google pay card, rejecting payments. The physical card outside google pay kept working tho, which was the weird part.
hayirli olsun bu arada, umarim hollanda gonlunce olur :)
for me google pay sometimes works and sometimes not. gf's maestro girocard works on ams metro but not ams trams. physical mc/visa works p reliably for sure but I do like the german trust system a lot more (no fare gates, instead has random ticket checkers).
had this happen today
one nice part of camp is that switching rooms making you forget what you were doing is less pronounced because you just don't switch rooms it's just one big field (more or less) (yes tents exist but ime don't cause the same effect)
See "list of known payment devices" here dangerousthings.com/product/conv..., there are more out there tho. printables is throwing HTTP 500 rn, try searching "22mm card" etc once it's up. I expanded the design there to make the holding bits larger so it won't fall off.
I can share links to other places that provide sim sized payment cards and a link to the 3d model if interested
consider 3d printing an attachment for a SIM-sized payment card (which I have as a prepaid card from vimpay) for your wristband. I can pay with my current pebble that way.
not sure if I like this better tbh, it feels a bit too curvy :/ will see how I feel after wearing it for a while I guess :)
have you heard of PIX? itch should use PIX. just have all your users go to the brazilian consulate to get a CPF (tax ID). then they can pay with PIX. that solves the problem.
the annoying part of tailscale mullvad is that you don't get the raw wireguard files so you cannot connect servers, routers etc to mullvad as easily
it's pretty good so far, been trying it for 10 daysish.
conbee 3 is also alright (but don't do conbee 2) if you find it at a better price than the sonoff dongles
hi that guy! excited to run into you for the third year in a row.
hi oomfie
also ovpay is sooo janky, had cards work on metro but not trams, my phone used to be able to check into trams but only check out on right scanner, not left (?!), now I couldn't check in with my phone either, had to pull out another card.
somehow my main sim decided overnight to roam but not establish data connection which is Confusing™ and Concerning™ About to go out to a coffee shop, wish me luck that moving around the city fixes it somewhat (different KPN cell etc).
budtender! budtender! I'll be having what the person who named this street was having
tyty already booked a dentist appt after I return, hoping it'll be fine til then
...i think it might be wisdom teeth 💀
p cool of my mouth to respond to me taking decent care of my mouth for the last 2.5 years by deciding to add some pain into the mix one day before I'm traveling to a field to camp
#why2025 starting strong
is ebay plus worth it
Reciprocal agreements are great but have a tendency to fail on a not insignificant % of merchants. The reddit link there goes into it, where many places in China won't take Discover and even if they try it won't go through.
kazakhstan: altynbank.kz/en/personal/... suriname: scombank.sr/en/zakelijk/... usa: www.icbc-us.com/en/column/14... (plus someone's story www.reddit.com/r/CreditCard...) etc
unionpay does also have foreign issuers, but they're far and few in between, often issued as business cards for companies that do a lot of business with china and as such send staff to china often enough to warrant getting a unionpay card
new article: "should PIX be offered to the world?" on instant payment systems, their complexity, and national sovereignty. l4.pm/wiki/Persona...
Indie games are a massive industry, itch is not niche. Many creators rely on their itch income and will stay even if itch is forced to take down adult content. However, if itch stopped taking mc/visa, they'd then look for other places to sell their game as their revenues would drop a lot.
Best of both worlds would be if itch could do something like "We take visa/mc/amex/paypal for regular games, and only ethereum for adult-only games", but I suspect payment processor policies may reject that nevertheless.
for fun I'll try getting a CPF and pix access though, but this is definitely not a process for the masses
unionpay is almost impossible to get in most countries (so not really different to pix). amex is an option that's easier to get than unionpay, it's still not global. bitcoin is alright but ethereum is more environmental and monero is more private but itch will never be big unless they take visa/mc
In both, in some regions with high tourism have some stores that went through the bureaucracy to set up receiving pix for payments. That's not very much "France and portugal are using it". That's like a store that takes US dollars (at bad rates) because that way they get more tourists.
oh apparently recargapay requires a brazilian phone number also, and pmuch all other banks require ID numbers not available to nonresidents (RG / CNH / RNE) to sign up :/ I think it's time people stopped suggesting pix as a viable option for itch to add for global payments.
I'm not convinced this is a good option at all for people outside brazil :/
www.reddit.com/r/Brazil/com... not mentioned in here, but: - wise does not do it anymore - c6 no longer allows foreigners - rendimento works (needs cpf) but has high fees - recargapay works (needs cpf) and to get a CPF you need to fill a form, send your passport scan and visit the consulate :D
supporting new payment mechanisms is quite a lot of overhead for a site like itch tbh. sorry to hear that it's the best you've got though, I guess it's nice that at least some places accept it. wish it was easier to anyone to be not unbanked.
which brazilian banks accept overseas retail customers without requiring signing up in person?
lol nah. US gift cards only, and the fees they charge seem to vary, but numbers I've found online are 17%, 20%, 60%, 120% (paid by customer, so for $40 you may need to pay $96 in gift cards for example). for context itch was probably paying 1-3% to stripe.
pix is only available to customers in brazil. it's not a solution.
And as a mainstream platform, you only are mainstream if you accept mainstream payment options. Steam would never grow as big as it did if it only took bank transfers, cash in an envelope or crypto. So you cannot really blame them. Go small and niche if you want small and niche payment options.
Of course, the reason why steam and itch are having issues is not high chargeback rates, but instead reactionary groups campaigning. The solution for itch and steam may as such be easier than one of these providers. Porn-aimed payment processors are unlikely to ever get as cheap as regular ones tho.
well no, main issue *used* to be that porn gets high chargeback rates, which have costly overhead and lead to revocation of merchant license if they happen often. providers targeting porn tend to as such offer middlemen merchants open to losing their license, which always adds overhead.
new shirt idea
I'm just telling you to set your expectations, don't give me this "so you hate pancakes?" bullshit.
2028 tho? that's a bit overly confident on the speed of change
lol none of this is happening with any US party
Relevant: Steam only offers pix if your region is set to Brazil, different countries have different options.
