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Yes, for a loading method which takes time to complete the conversion rate will generally be locked in from the time the transfer was initiated. You can always preview the received converted amount. Although the transfer method may vary depending on availability in the recipient account country, the various timeframes and fees (where applicable) have always been previewed accurately.

For myself I have set up MFA for payments via the app, so I will routinely be required to use the app to authenticate a payment. However other MFA methods are available. I can’t think of any other function the website itself doesn’t do.

Given there is no additional fee for converting at a foreign point of sale, I just load up in my home currency as there are free/instant methods available and convert to whichever destination currency at point of sale, ensuring to select not to have the balances converted by visa/master at terminals which have that function.

Hope you enjoy your time in Japan!

I’d recommend searching about their fees this because it’s going to vary a bit based on your local currency. Their documentation on the topic is easy to read and answers your first two questions better than I could put it.

I’ve rarely had to interact with support so I couldn’t give a useful response about that in earnest. They do have local support in the two major countries in which I’ve interacted with them and it’s been fine.

The KYC process is standard for a digital money account AFAIK. I signed up in 2017 originally to handle a one-off transfer between local bank accounts in different countries, so I’d not have bothered investing much time in it if it was a hassle. I haven’t had to re-identify myself or think about it since, despite migrating across several countries, starting to use the physical card etc. I imagine I gave them my government ID though.

I’ve used wise.com for this sort of thing for many years (since they used to be called transferwise). Can spin up as many virtual visa cards as you need (I think it’s max 10 active at once). I also have a physical debit card with them which will do conversions at foreign points of sale from my local currency using the mid market rate and fees much lower than visa/master. Never had an issue with them, though this is more a sort of obfuscation rather than privacy

I’ve been prompted to manually drag the app into the Applications folder during install flow multiple times. It wasn’t a substitute for an installation wizard, it was a part of it. I’m familiar with archives as well as .debs, .rpms and tarballs, and none of these or Windows equivalents required such interaction. Yeah, it’s due to my unfamiliarity. In my state of being relatively unfamiliar with Mac OS, it seems pretty fucking weird.

Installing a downloaded app by dragging the .dmg into your Applications folder.

Just why? What is the case where I download an app installer, execute the installer, but don’t want the app installed?

How were the trackers added to these torrents? Assuming either a) you added them manually, or b) the tracker you downloaded the torrent files from bundled them into the torrent file?

If b), if you downloaded the torrent file again now that one of its trackers is defunct, would it still be bundled?

If no, or if a), you could remove the torrents without touching the downloaded data, then locate your “snatch list” on the private tracker (a list of all torrents you’ve downloaded), batch download them all and add them to qbt, assuming same output folder they will detect the downloaded files and go to 100% without downloading anything.

If yes, there isnt a way I can think of to remove the trackers as a batch, but aside from tidiness of your client there shouldn’t be any actual problem resulting from them being there.

Is it just me or has the main character really done nothing all season except several failed attempts at a supply run? My brain keeps tuning out

FWIW you can fix the aspect ratio issue on the firestick using ADB to force the device to display in a 4:3 resolution (except when using streaming apps that force 16:9)

If you want something privacy oriented you’ll probably need to build some kind of NUC. To my knowledge no off-the-shelf streaming device respects privacy

There are things like torrentio now which lend BitTorrent piracy a more integrated UX, and that has definitely extended the lifespan of its usefulness to me. Torrents rarely max out my line speed these days, mostly because I have 1000X the bandwidth compared to when I first started torrenting 20 odd years ago. But it’s still one of the fastest and simplest methods to get any file you want, so I think it’s relevant

Tell it to shut the fuck up (it works, that’s why my grandfather likes it)

Heretic, which was better than I expected. La Palma was also decent. Don’t really remember much of this week’s episode of Silo.

Migrated away from .world over a year ago due to their shitty admins, possibly even worse than r*ddit

After seeing this post, I tried streaming the newest episode of Silo and found it wasn’t working in my addon (which uses a4kscrapers).

My mother tried streaming Slow Horses (using same addon) after I told her and she said it worked fine. I guess it had already been cached and was therefore unaffected since the file I streamed was only released today.

Anyway I luckily only had 8 days left of RD, so I subscribed to Premiumize and it only took a minute to reconfigure the addon to use that instead.

Started a new job managing a retail store, so I’m trying to balance my new routine with my study. At the same time, I had to leave where I’m staying for a few days and figure out alternative transport. Tomorrow I only have study in the morning, so I’ve got some waking hours to myself for once … I’m probably gonna crash on the couch hard. But looking forward to it!

Pretty much all li-ion cells are rechargeable. It doesn’t mean you want to recharge them. All the big 5 manufacturers grade their individual production batches. Only the “A” grade cells are used, the rest are either turfed or sold off to less reputable rewrappers/distributors whom don’t mind having a cell of a lesser grade with their brand on it. That’s how the vape companies got them, and why they often aren’t able to be recharged in the product, which changes the risk profile of using them. The cell manufacturers don’t want their cells in vapes, so they don’t interact with the vape market directly.

Disposable vapes are a bad product and should be banned. As far as the underlying e-waste problem goes though, those cells already existed and were on the way to becoming e-waste before they were put in the vape. Disposable vapes don’t worsen the problem and banning them won’t mitigate it, only make it less visible in the west. The problem will still exist until we move on from li-ion chemistry in general.

From around 2016-2020 the most popular devices were just a series of incrementally adding more pointless shit, which is why it’s like that. They’re not that popular anymore.

This app live captions any output to your sound device locally https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

Whether I mute my output device, or selectively mute a tab or app it still works fine.

There’s a similar feature baked into Win11, not sure whether that is processed locally/privately though

In the startup I worked for, the HR lead was the CEO’s significant other. They had made fundamental contributions to the operations of the company since its inception and relatively humble beginnings. Once it had grown beyond a certain size, there wasn’t really any particular executive position within a logical company structure for them to fill. The individual departments were run by people more qualified in those areas. I think it made sense for the company to continuously recognize their contributions (and obviously the boss isn’t going to fire their partner), but HR ended up being mostly just a cushy job for them to fall into.

It was one of those companies that likes to say its “like a family”, but really there’s an in-crowd (i.e. the founding staff) and everyone else. I was part of the former, so I could be honest and open with them with regard to HR issues and be supported, and that was nice. But on the other hand, I witnessed HR actions related to incidents involving other staff that caused me cognitive dissonance, because it would’ve been handled differently if I were the staff member involved. More than anything else, because I had found myself in the right place at the right time. Because I was a part of the landed gentry, as it were. That’s fucking bullshit, and the experience made me realize that they weren’t actually different from other companies like I had thought.

LiveCaptions

I’m sorry, I meant to respond about the lack of BBC archival footage, as it had to be archived to be able to compile it. You’re right that it was probably shot straight to VHS.