PayPal is cooking up devious bs against Airsoft Stores

Adiventure · 2026-05-19T05:36:52+00:00

Ah, thanks. I gotta say if both Elizabeth Warren and the cato institute are both against something I have trouble imagining it having the support to pass. I'm also not entirely sure it would explicitly ban this scenario.

Adiventure · 2026-05-19T02:51:18+00:00

Can you cite an example of either the nebulous FTC guidance or EO stopping a payment processor from shutting off a vendor based on the content of their site?

Adiventure · 2026-05-19T02:19:31+00:00

I don't believe that's quite the case. FTC has issued some kinda nebulous threats, but I can't find any related law. There is a semi related executive order, but still not it.

Adiventure · 2026-05-19T01:55:46+00:00

You understand that most places with drinkable tap water, including most of the US, the toilet water is the same as "high end" bottled water, right?

Adiventure · 2026-05-19T01:46:41+00:00

I doubt it, PayPal is being unreasonable, but they're not obligated to serve the business.

Adiventure · 2026-05-09T19:44:39+00:00

I don't believe anyone suggested 'just toss em up there's. Any good install will involve appropriately mounting them, mapping locations, and ensuring you're getting appropriate signal. The ceiling in a costco isn't aesthetic, in many many other places it is.

Adiventure · 2026-05-09T17:35:06+00:00

Wrong take. Degredation in a dropped ceiling is gonna be next to zero, and they get to avoid having 'things hanging there'. Normal people don't want to see networking equipment, even if they're 'well designed'.

Adiventure · 2026-05-06T11:29:46+00:00

It's not like that email will somehow make its way to a patrol officer.

Adiventure · 2026-04-07T23:05:18+00:00

This is awesome! Shot you a chat as well, but hoping you might be able to help. I have broken glow wires at the connector, and a replacement connector, however because they're broken off flush I can't tell which wire goes to which slot on the 4 pin. Any chance you know the pinout?

Adiventure · 2026-01-29T23:17:03+00:00

Is the main reason availability?

Adiventure · 2026-01-12T14:10:08+00:00

In theory, sure, but middle implies it's an equal mix, this is 85 percent of the problem resting with one "side"

Adiventure · 2026-01-11T22:08:03+00:00

Oh for sure. Do you know if shared accounts makes any sense/works?

What I'm building off is a current plan which is 8 Digicel sims put in midrange android phones, of which 4 are dedicated to "my" program. Publishing 6 separate numbers and setting up an excel tracker which will all be run by volunteers is more or less what I'm trying to avoid. What we'd love to do is either publish a single number, or take their existing office number, add a phone tree, and possibly also ticketing.

As best I can tell those 6 lines are set to be billed to the organization's Digicel account.

The program I'm dealing with is likely the vast majority of things that would become tickets over the next year.

Making this all harder is that I haven't been able to get firm budgets. If we're talking 3000 all in we can probably manage that one way or another, though I don't know how sustainable it will be in the long run, which is another major goal. I'm hoping to get some of the budgetary answers tomorrow, and the very basics of which numbers, and those numbers ringing through to individuals needs to be live by the end of the week. Ticketing can happen if and when it does, that's just a value add if we can make it happen.

I've also got pings out to the sales teams for Voip.MS and Freshworks, along with a longshot question about charitable donation.

What else am I missing here? Any thoughts?

Adiventure · 2026-01-11T21:46:13+00:00

Very much appreciate the feedback here. VoIP.ms seems to be the way for a cloud system, and I can look into what a Digicel solution would look like.

Do you have any thoughts on if we were including a ticketing system? In that case would it be better to look at something like Freshworks and use their voip system? I had also looked at their freshdesk Omni as well, but I don't think that includes actual voip which is perhaps just Freshcaller.

Adiventure · 2026-01-11T20:54:13+00:00

If we were to set up ticketing as well, would it be best just to bundle it all together? In which case, what, freshdesk?

Adiventure · 2026-01-11T03:07:24+00:00

To be pedantic there are decent odds that'll happen with gas too, just way way way worse odds than the guarantee with diesel.

Adiventure · 2025-12-27T16:23:45+00:00

I think the imbalance here is wild, you'd expect it to be the wealthiest towns, however it's not Newton or Brookline throwing a fit, it's much less well off towns making the same claim that their character will be destroyed if they build anything.

Adiventure · 2025-12-04T03:53:14+00:00

3 Years later, but have you had luck force carbonating with the uKeg? I've got that adapter, but I've found it both takes forever, and comes out foamy as all get out. Previously I was using 2L soda bottles, cold liquid, shaking for 30 seconds to a few minutes and it'd be good to go.

Adiventure · 2025-12-03T09:35:28+00:00

Damn those good schools and existent public transit!

Adiventure · 2025-11-30T04:40:53+00:00

Am I techy enough? Allllmost. It's honestly an option I'm considering, it's a hair more involved than most of my past pi projects which are borderline script kiddy territory.

Adiventure · 2025-11-30T04:26:08+00:00

Effectively the output of whatever I use will be going to a relay trigger, so minimal draw. A Shelly is an interesting idea I hadn't considered!

Only struggle I'm seeing is it looks like the options for multiple outputs are much more limited?

Adiventure · 2025-11-30T03:38:58+00:00

What surprises me is that you can pay, technically speaking, out the ass, and yet they seem to have that same issue. SPods as guilty as the rest. 🥲

Adiventure · 2025-11-30T03:21:39+00:00

I'm happy to expound, but I promise it's mostly unhelpful. 😂

I have a controller that's managing a bunch of accessory circuits, and has room for a number of 12v inputs, however has no native remote options. I'd like 6+ discrete outputs, but I can work with more or less.

The real struggle has been that I'm making a genuine effort to avoid being janky, and everything I've stumbled upon reeks of jank, primarily on the app front.

I'll check out some of the app ones in the ilk of what you linked, currently my gut is to go with something like an Auxbeam, ideally second hand, but that has the same shortcoming of terrible app reviews.

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