fryry

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by fryry 1y ago
I very rarely refund anything, but when I do, I send a single email that I want a refund and if it isn't done promptly I will chargeback. It's usually the best customer service I get. No security questions, no Indian call centres,
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by fryry 1y ago
I live in Thailand, many expat accounts have been closed down, making it very hard to pay bills etc. in the country. That will form part of the 3 million. Huge overreaction that will dent the economy and will no doubt be flip-flopped on in
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by fryry 2y ago
I was researching CAPTCHA solving services yesterday that run on cheap 3rd world labour. I couldn't imagine a worst job than solving them all day.
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by fryry 3y ago
I'm fairly young and I remember this debt ceiling brinkmanship happening several times in the past , turning out to be a nothingburger. Is this time any different? (Genuine question I'm not American)
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by fryry 3y ago
I use this pixel feature all the time, it does make it a bit too easy to snooze the alarm though. You want a bit of friction.
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by fryry 3y ago
No, especially the element of having goons back home to coerce the family sounds like actually slavery. I double check these days. Westerners try to make charity cases out of people from the developing world that are just trying to make a b
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by fryry 3y ago
So we have an individual that has travelled overseas to earn more money than he would be able to make at home, to better support his family. That is not a slave and calling it slavery cheapens actual slavery IMO. Now, having said that, the
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by fryry 3y ago
On the last point, I must be missing something obvious, but why don't those workers who have their passports taken report them lost/stolen and get a new one from their embassy?
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by fryry 3y ago
I bought a lifetime Plex subscription in 2016 and it's still working
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by fryry 3y ago
Just today I needed to run some software only available in .deb and only on Ubuntu 22.04. So whipped out an old laptop that had Ubuntu installed and ran sudo do-release-upgrade to upgrade to 22.04. boom! GUI gone and the terminal was floode
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by fryry 3y ago
This would be a valid way of thinking about it, but programmers aren't generally judged on their meeting attendance but rather their code output. More meetings == less code == worse perceived performance == fewer opportunities for pay
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by fryry 3y ago
It's a weird focus comparing it with how the internet developed in a very wild west way. Imagine if internet tech got delayed until they could figure out how to not have it used for porn. Saftey from what exactly? The AI being mean to
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by fryry 5y ago
Also available in the UK, Interactive Brokers margin loan. The interest rate is 1-2% p.a.
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by fryry 6y ago
Down for friends and I in the UK.
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by fryry 7y ago
I believe ISP level blocking in the UK can already be easily bypassed simply by not using your ISPs DNS servers.
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by fryry 8y ago
As an Australian Dev living in the U.K. this is absolutely terrifying. I'm compelled to somehow deploy a backdoor at whatever company I'm working for if they have a single Australian user on threat of jail time???