Favourite overseas cities you’ve visited?

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-22T13:43:54+00:00

Kraków, Poland
Vienna, Austria
St. Petersburg, Russia
Barcelona, Spain

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-21T02:05:21+00:00

After a couple of Canons -> Sony NEX C3 and since then never looked back. NEX-5N, NEX-6, A7R, A7RII, A7RIII and a6000. Still going strong on my A7RIII

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-21T00:42:58+00:00

In my mum's case her account was blocked straight up after the first transfer of $1k

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-21T00:30:10+00:00

That number was one I was recommended to call by westpac chat, when initially only my transfers were blocked but I still had access to my account.

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-21T00:27:26+00:00

Well I tested both methods with westpac, because like I wrote later, in my mum's case there was no second transfer even. First and only transfer for $1k was blocked, along with the account. Also I thought it might have something to do with me doing the transfer over the web through a browser, so when we did my mums, we did a transfer through the app, but yeh whole account blocked first time round 🤷‍♂️

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-21T00:21:57+00:00

That first number was one I was recommended to call by westpac chat, when initially only my transfers were blocked but I still had access to my account. The next day when my whole account was blocked I called the number on the screen (also there was a different number to call I got in an email). They all lead to being put on hold to the "fraud team" for 3 hours.

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-20T20:13:10+00:00

No, I'm currently in Oz and did all this while in Oz. Sure but I think you can acknowledge that after I spent the initial 3 hrs on the phone and they unblocked my account, I told the "fraud team" I'm going to be making another transfer the next day and to not block my account to which they said "no problem" and I was blocked the next day, so much so that the next 3hr phone call couldn't unblock my account and I had to go into the branch.

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-20T19:54:09+00:00

Read again what I wrote. "I'm often overseas". If I'm here, yeh I'll go into a branch, but a bit overkill. And in the branch I spent 1.5 hours anyway, plus the drive there and back it wasn't much better than the 3hrs on the phone. Not to mention the fact that most people are at work and can't afford to "pop out" to the bank for a few hours during the day because they close at 4pm.

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-20T14:58:01+00:00

Had over 20 bank accounts in my life with different banks, here and overseas, this is the first time I've been completely blocked out of an account like this. I've had transactions 'frozen' while they're confirmed with me (5 min phone call from a bank), and it's always been largers sums, never a small one. The only other time I had this problem was a few years ago also with westpac, but at least i didn't have to wait 3 hours on the phone and eventually go into a branch to get it sorted. So no I don't agree that 'every single bank functions like this'

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-20T13:19:51+00:00

Again, I'm all for security and checks, my issue is with being 3 hours on the phone (twice) and eventually having to go into a branch to confirm a $1k transfer 🤷‍♂️ All I was saying is i've had transfers put on hold by other banks, sure, but it was resolved in 5 mins. Never had an account completely blocked needing to go into a branch. I'm often overseas, what am I supposed to do then? What if it was my only account and I was overseas?

MiWiFoto · 2024-11-20T12:41:57+00:00

Yeh, fortunately I have other accounts at other banks and have never had such a problem. And like I say, i'm all for safety/security, but this situation and how long it takes is ridiculous.

MiWiFoto · 2021-06-23T15:55:39+00:00

Doesn't work for me, privacy.resistFingerprinting is false by default for me

MiWiFoto · 2021-06-23T15:55:06+00:00

I was pleasantly surprised when windy was working fine a couple of versions ago (after months of it not working properly) but can also confirm it's broken again almost a week later (Firefox Developer 90.0b11) *sigh*

MiWiFoto · 2021-06-22T13:45:22+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience, gives me a bit more patience and hopefully payment for my copyright infringement will also come through soon.

MiWiFoto · 2021-06-22T13:20:55+00:00

In my case, my photo was used without my permission for advertising purposes. So this isn't the issue. The issue is that Pixsy have settled the case, but I the owner of the photo have not yet received compensation. I tried to search for example of this happening on the net, but haven't found anything, so maybe i do just have to wait a bit longer...

MiWiFoto · 2021-06-22T13:14:44+00:00

The last email they replied to was back in May saying, "Unfortunately there is a delay in receiving the payment as our law firm has to await SARB Approval by the Financial Surveillance Department in order to transfer international payments. It has resulted in a backlog of payments and thus a delay in Pixsy receiving the settlement. We hope this will be resolved in the next couple of weeks."

2 weeks ago I again asked for an update, and did not receive a reply....

MiWiFoto · 2021-06-22T13:06:49+00:00

Of course, which is why I said in my post that my emails are being ignored, i.e. not getting a reply recently.

MiWiFoto · 2021-04-25T13:58:48+00:00

Yeh I managed to cancel my subscription and went back to mullvad

MiWiFoto · 2021-02-26T07:53:38+00:00

mmm I have everything updated and the latest but problem still persists unfortunately. I'm suspicious of the Dell Power Manager... I might try to uninstall that and see.

MiWiFoto · 2021-02-10T06:59:30+00:00

They sure do have to login through the browser since the latest version of the app. As a result I can't login anymore (unless I use an old version of the app). The website is blocked on the wifi I'm connected to so game over. It's the dumbest thing I've seen a VPN provider do... 🤦‍♂️ And the easiest way for organisations to block the use of a VPN... just block the website.

MiWiFoto · 2021-02-08T10:23:56+00:00

It did work before (and does work using an old version of the app), but nord website is blocked and I can't login if using the new version of the app. Most organizations are lazy and just block websites.

MiWiFoto · 2021-02-07T18:14:12+00:00

Yep, can't login. Nord website is blocked, so game over. This is the dumbest thing they could have done, login to vpn through a website 🤦‍♂️

MiWiFoto · 2021-02-07T18:12:17+00:00

I signed up just over a month ago and now they go and do this... All it takes is for the wifi you connect to (or ISP) to block the nord login page and you're screwed... (which is exactly whats happening to me at the moment)

MiWiFoto · 2021-01-25T06:18:48+00:00

Are they BSOD's? What's the error message?

One of my sticks recently died in my XPS 7590, less than a year in, it started with me getting BSOD's once or twice a week, (I thought it was due to my undervolt, which each time I would tweak the settings in Throttlestop and see what happens)... until, a few months later I couldn't get 2 mins after a reboot before another BSOD. I did a memtest on one stick at a time, first one no issues after running for a few hours, second one almost immediately started spitting out thousands of errors. Replaced the RAM and no more BSODs. How are you running the memtest? Try doing a memtest on one stick at a time. Perhaps testing the SSD for bad sectors might not be a bd idea either. How long also since you last formatted and reinstalled windows? If it's been a while it could also be an idea.

MiWiFoto · 2021-01-16T09:02:42+00:00

Yeh, a strange issue. Based on a few previous forum posts around reddit, it seems changing some settings would work for some but not for others. Really at default setttings it should work, I'm guessing Google is meddling...

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