Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine

On 8/20/24 6:33 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

On 8/19/24 4:06 AM, Marc Haber wrote:

Aliexpress has more of those, but many of those come without docs, so
it's basically luck to get it to work, and if you want to have some
continuity in buying Aliexpress is a bad idea.

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   I never buy from Ali. Decided awhile back to just
   get ONE nice USA Amazon acct. If they don't have
   it I don't buy it. Don't wanna make my card
   numbers even more accessible to the PRC.

 They do accept PayPal now.

   Long back I started to set up a PayPal acct, but
   changed my mind, cancelled, about halfway thru.
   Then for weeks I kept getting fake "Your PayPal
   Account May Have Been Compromised - Log In Here !"
   mails  :-)

Plus since I use pre-paid cards for
online transactions with only enough money loaded for each
purchase, any fraud attempts would likely fail quietly due to
"insufficient funds", or at least be easily spotted.

   Pre-paid cards can be good, or too limiting.
   My main cardholder USED to have a utility for
   creating a "fake" card with just x-dollars on
   it up to y-date. But then ownerships changed
   and that went away. IMHO it was VERY useful
   and needs to make a big come-back.
   Meanwhile, well, I just keep relatively low limits
   on my few cards. Most frauds go for the low-hanging
   fruit and then vanish - not gonna bother trying to
   increase the limits or anything. Also real CCs now
   come with a number of legal protections against
   fraud - ones that other forms of payment don't have.
   How many biz want a routing number directly into
   a checking/savings account now ? DON'T. Got yer
   bank accounts with "overdraft protection" so if
   one gets drained they can start draining all the
   others ? DON'T.