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Cake day: July 11th, 2020

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  • lonneztoAsklemmyDo you pay with cash or card?
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    1 year ago

    USA - Cash a lot more recently. With how easy it is for my bank and stores to track my purchases with card, I’ve switched to cash as much as possible. Some stores say no cash but even those have never actually refused cash. I assume they’re just trying to deter thieves.

    The spark for this change for me was Target. I first looked into it cause I hated how they scanned my ID barcode when buying alcohol. Also, they openly track purchases even made without your account by your credit card number. In addition to what I’ve heard about intensive surveillance in the stores via high resolution cameras, enough to read phone messages, I have sworn off Target entirely.

    EDIT: oh and to avoid tip creeping. I absolutely hate when non-tipped places ask for tips. Cash makes it a lot easier to avoid.


  • lonneztoTechnology@beehaw.org*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    This is pretty much my sentiment, too. With the growth of federated social media, it’s pretty much inevitable for big players to have their own. My only hope is that since it’s decentralized, people aren’t going to get stuck and forced into a single platform’s experience.








  • 3 is probably my favorite, too, and the one I played the most as a kid. I stopped paying attention to Pokemon for a while and missed when the remakes came out. I played them a few months ago and really loved all the content they added. I went in blind and was blown away.







  • Seeing your up alias reminded me of a bash function I setup a while ago also called up. I use it to simulate doing cd .. n number of times. e.g. up 5 would go up 5 directory levels.

    up ()
    {
        local levels;
        local i;
        [[ -z "$1" ]] && levels=1 || levels="$1";
        for ((i=0; i<levels; i++))
        do
            cd ../;
        done
    }
    

    It’s probably the smallest, yet most convenient thing I’ve setup on my machines. Especially so if you work in languages with lots of nested subdirectories (like Java).