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Ah, that would definitely make a difference. A debit transaction uses some form of “password” like a PIN or the data embedded in a card chip. A credit transaction technically only relies on easily available data and sometimes a signature, much more common for fraud (it’s pretty easy to read and replicate the data from a magnetic strip–one of my classmates did a project to read magnetic strips, and they had to stop letting people swipe their own cards on it because it popped up tons of confidential data).

My CU’s website definitely looks like it’s from the early naughts, but they at least kept things up to date and security practices seemed legit, and I don’t think I ever tripped the fraud detector. I guess everyone’s mileage will vary a bit.

They’re common in Canada as well. In my experience, they’re much better than larger banks for things like fees and interest rates.

Historically the main advantage of a larger bank was having banks and ATMs everywhere, but lots of CUs have formed mutual agreements for ATM access, and internet banking being ubiquitous has rendered any advantage the big banks have had moot (in my opinion, at least).

Oh yeah, in that case I’ll echo the other commenter that suggested Mint.

How much RAM? My go-to would be a light Linux install, ideally Debian w/XFCE if you think it has enough oomph for that. Otherwise, there are lighter distros that will still feel nice and snappy.

This one. I’ve bought several over the years, they’re great and often available at your local electronics store, if you prefer that.

Looks good to me

Assume spherical duck

Soy sauce, maybe some diced vegetables

I usually move static assignments outside the DHCP range, but in general, most routers will avoid re-allocating it even if it’s within the DHCP range.

Yeah, does anyone else remember the menu bars that would show up and disappear depending on what you were doing? Those were awful–the ribbon method of context-specific tabs is better (IMO).

I already have to do this. My office wants everyone to use the MS authenticator app, won’t run on LineageOS. Even if it did, I wouldn’t install it, but still.

Ended up making them purchase a hardware security key for me instead.

I hope someday to have as much self confidence as someone who lists a “slightly shat” chair for $75.

I haven’t used a lot of slicers, but I’m not aware of any that would do this automatically. In theory it shouldn’t be terribly difficult to do, but it would be difficult to do it well (that is, optimize for fewer supports, etc).

Capitalism. Specifically, the stock market. IPOs make good companies into bad companies.

Being owned by stockholders effectively removes any amount of “human” in the company’s choices and direction. There becomes a single goal, to which everything else is sacrificed: make stock prices go up in the short term. The C-suite execs will say all sorts of other shit, but any appearance of accountability or altruism is solely geared to making more money at any cost. Any leadership with a soul will be forced to either give up trying to be “good”, or they leave.

Digger and Paratrooper were probably the first two games I ever played. Both still hold up.

And won’t survive things like… getting sprayed with water.

It goes back at least to A Link to the Past. Not sure if there’s precedent before that.

Thanks, I hate it

Obligatory: fuck Nestle