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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Issue is that I need a Paypal account, for which I need a phone number and bank account from the same country. I have Canadian bank stuff, but no Canadian phone number.

I’m in Lebanon

That won't go well for you long term, Paypal will eventually catch on and permaban you. You'll also lose whatever funds were in the account during that time.

If you still go through with it I suspect you'll need to figure out how to buy a non-virtual phone number, just seems like a waste of time since Paypal will eventually add it to their permaban/fraud database.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Agreed with the other comment, the sealed oil radiator heaters are near silent (no fan) and have no trouble heating up a small/mid sized room after some time. The newer ones nowadays have a thermostat so you can set the temperature to something specific & have it heat up to that temperature.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

John Robbins would have inherited Baskin-Robbins (he was the co-founder's son). Grew up quite well off and could have been wealthy through the rest of his life but he chose to walk away from the company due to all the industrialized factory farming and general animal cruelty surrounding the dairy industry. Back then ice cream was all dairy products.

Eventually Baskin-Robbins itself was sold to a multi-national corp & was then sold/acquired a few more times.

https://vegnews.com/the-untold-vegan-story-of-baskin-robbins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robbins_(author)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could use a site like wunderground.com to get an idea of what the weather has been like around that time prior years.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/weekly/us/ny/new-york-city/KLGA/date/2023-12-25

For what it's worth last few years it's been chilly but kind of on the warmer side. NYC area hasn't been hit with a huge amount of snow the last few years either, feels like we only get a few days of snow maybe in January/February nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I was given a dunkin giftcard

Dunkin gift cards expire? That's news to me, it's been a while since I've encountered expiring gift cards. Not sure that's even legal but maybe they expire in your particular state?

To answer your main question I buy gift cards with discounts/cash back all the time. It basically makes them cheaper than using cash. For example my credit card has 5% cash back for grocery stores so that gives me 5% cash back on gift cards purchased there.

Also a lot of credit card and stores do gift card sales where they'll do 10%-20% discount, or throw in a free gift card with a purchase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

True, forgot all about the Pro/Home differences. Yet another reason to avoid Windows Home editions. To be fair OP didn't mention if they are on Windows 11 Home or Pro but perhaps you're right maybe they're on a Home edition.

Another comment mentioned Rufus which works well for Windows 11 Pro but I haven't tested it with a current Windows 11 Home installer so can't be sure how well it works for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes forgot about Rufus, good tip! Never tested it with the current installer for Windows 11 Home but hopefully it still works fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Haven't tested this with the most recent Windows 11 installer but in the past what I do during the install is select that I'm setting the system up for a corporate / domain account. From there it allows to enter a normal Windows username/password like normal (you don't actually need a domain name but you can make one up if you want).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

100% / 0% / 0%

I'd probably dump Lemmy entirely if I was forced to browse All. And/or I'd be blocking half the Lemmyverse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Right behind you, Steam tells me I'm at 121 hours so far :D

Granted I'm still new, only bought it a few months back. Kind of surprising how much of a time sink this game is haha.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

For what it's worth urgent care will definitely tell you to go to the hospital ER if they deem it more emergency related. And of course they'll still bill you for coming in there to ask them :P

In other words urgent care is not emergency care, if that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Video editing / post production is the type of work that you need to have contacts in the industry to really get by. So you'd still apply to job postings but after a while the different production crews working on projects will have your info & can book you on future gigs when things go well.

I am not in that field but have a few friends/family doing it. Traditionally the majority of those type of jobs tend to be in the NYC area or southern California. I know people use Mandy to look for those type of jobs but I'm not too up to date on other places. That yt site you mentioned seems a bit hacky, maybe designed to attract beginner youtube influencer types.

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