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Comment Re:BNPL groceries = groceries on credit cards (Score 1) 93

Fuck debit cards. A: no rewards. My current card pays a % of purchases back as cash. I'd literally be losing money if I swapped to a debit card. B: if the card number is stolen (and let's face it this day and age it will be at some point) it's MY money being stolen not the bank's. If you have a good bank they will fix it quickly but it's still a lot more hassle that if it happens with a credit card. If you have the means and discipline to pay it off every month, credit card is the way to go. Bonus: the card issuer will hate you for costing them money.

Comment Re:I see one problem (Score 1) 52

So you disable all the tracking and that's cool and all but a lot of businesses use that tracking to decide whether or not you're committing fraud or not. So you use Firefox and they can't track you but then they won't let you make purchases on their website...

I use Firefox daily and have for several years now and I have never, once, run into this issue.

Comment Re:Meanwhile in America (Score 2) 92

But I was specifically referring to the sort of ginormous pick-up trucks that are rather popular in America. Most of them have a 0-60 time of eventually.

My F150 has a 0-60 of around 5.5 seconds. Big truck or not, its twin-turbo v6 can move it surprisingly quickly. And it is not a high-end performance model like the Raptor, just a plain XL with the 3.5L option.

Comment Re:Could be a game-changer (Score 1) 27

If people can run legacy Windows apps without Windows, they will gladly move to a new platform simply to be free of Antimalware Service Executable and the constant useless updates.

That's the fun part though: You can't. At least not with this solution. This is just thin client computing. They run windows servers in their DC, your IT installs your apps, configures everything like what app icons to present to what users, and you login to a web portal. Yes, the endpoint doesn't need to be Windows (Although MS still gets a cut from it since you need a RDS CAL) but you still need Windows on the back-end. Citrix has being doing this for decades now. You can see the architecture on their site: https://helpcenter.cameyo.com/...

Comment Re: Make them occasionally? (Score 1) 185

They may take them to a bank or kiosk to cash them in, but no way most people will get rid of them through payments. That's one of the problems with them, no one wants to carry them so they pile up. I remember my parents had like half a dozen coffee cans full of coins, 99% pennies. Hell there are a pile of them in my center console in my car right now that will most likely never get spent.

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