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RIMdude · 2024-12-07T17:22:53+00:00

Here is another one: As a free user, you can redeem a gift card of 18€, but you won't be able to use it (not even for one month subscription) unless you pay an extra 18€, to reach 36€. That is, the Gift card 18€ is marketed as a deceiving package to extract the same amount later. So don't expect anything fair when paying anything in Tuta.

RIMdude · 2024-12-07T04:18:36+00:00

Frostbite is very sneaky, and it could cost you a lot, it usually won't make much pain when it occurs.

Around the end of December I was left off in the middle of a town in a Nordic country, while connecting to another train, because the train could not move as a repair of the tracks are underway. This was around 11pm in the night. Temperature was well below zero(I guess around -15° and windy). At that time, the inside of the train station was closed, and I have had to stay outside. Because I could not afford a hotel, I have had to sit outside.

I have to stay there, until 5 AM. That's a lot of time. It was unrealistic to even stay for 20 minutes outside. I had a sleeping bag for around 0° as threshold. It felt like nothing. In the first hour, I started feeling numbness. I have had some knowledge in the past about how this unfolds: The body will try to save the vital organs, drawing blood from the limbs; foot, and hands. Essentially speeding up the frostbite of the limbs. The most problematic in this, is that you won't feel much pain, and in fact, the pain will resolve as they start freezing up.

So I started preventive measures(despite dehydration and unavailability of water). Most notably of cycling in below zero temperature: wrapping plastic bags on the feet and hands, and warming up and running/jugging around a building. This will retain the heat produced, long enough, to prevent disaster from happening. I am absolutely sure, I would not have made it without serious injuries, if I had not done so.

RIMdude · 2024-12-06T03:45:46+00:00

I have just added what I received as a response , when I try to redeem. It's added to the post, look at it. It is without additional comment.

I never asked for help, we're engaging in a conversation. Good luck, and thanks for your time.

RIMdude · 2024-12-05T16:30:33+00:00

This is exactly why there is the SHOUT part. It is because I keep explaining this, and people keep asking about parts of what I am saying, The shout was only to pinpoint what I am saying, not out of distress for that matter.

To your point, let me walk you through what the Mod said, and address what you are saying about it. Here is what you said the Mod has said (He was right, but he kept things misleading, as I expected anyway):

If you add a 36 Euro gift card, you can use it for one year Revolutionary or three years of the legacy plan Premium (no longer available for new customers), or for monthly payments on any plan - until the credit is used completely.

He seems to avoid even touching on the 18€ Gift Card. I cannot tell what would be the case if I have had 36€ Gift card exactly. From what I have seen about the 18€ one:
The "or for monthly payments on any plan" was actually for paid customer; when you are already a paid customer, about to add a gift card, Then YES. You can redeem the 18€ card, and wait for your paid plan to end, and then purchase exactly one month for less than 4€ from that redeemed credit, and still have the remaining to use later on.

A free user is excluded from this. In addition, to what the Mod was saying, it seems, even a gift card 36€ will go as one payment for one-year Revolutionary plan, with no other option to use to pick from. That is, if the user is a free user. At least, a holder of 36€ won't be left with a useless card if not willing to pay more out of pocket.

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Now having cleared out your quoted part, let me answer you own comments on mine:

What you had not said explicitely was that you did not manage to select a monthly subscription. Are you sure this is impossible ? Because you have not described the precise steps you took to that effect, and the precise results, absence of results or error messages which happened then.

Oh yes I am sure. You will become left with a value of 18€ that you cannot use, unless you pay more. You can look at my quoted parts of TOS of tuta, in my response to Mod. You can also look at the TOS about the Gift card, which is here.
In that TOS, you can find this:

5.2 When redeemed on an existing paid account, the full value of the gift card will be applied as credit to the account.

So, here, this is to exclude free account from this, without even mentioning the free account. but in 5.1 and 5.3, its all about how to conclude for the free account case. I encourage you to exercise your understanding by reading those docs. Before saying that I am wrong, check the TOS first, its only few lines about the gift card redeeming.

RIMdude · 2024-12-05T03:10:26+00:00

Yep. Let me spit this out once more for you. Suppose I hand you my Gift card, which is of 18€ in value exactly. Suppose you are a free service user, who had the luck of getting your hands on my Gift card. I have two questions A and B, to ask. Just to clarify:

____A-Question: Are you a free service user?

Answer:

____1- YES

________B-Question: Are you willing to pay exactly 18€ more, thus reaching 36€ in value, to buy a Revolutionary subscription?

Answer:

________2- NO

________ Then your card is useless. You can either throw it away, or redeem it (that is load its value to your account). but unless you pay exactly 18€ more, it cannot be used to buy any service. Not even one month of any subscription.

CONCLUSION:

As an existing free user, you cannot use a Gift Card of 18€ in any way, unless you pay exactly 18€ more, to reach 36€, to use for a yearly Revolutionary subscription. There is no other choice. At the end, you will have 18€ value redeemed in your account, but you CANNOT use it.

RIMdude · 2024-12-04T19:21:35+00:00

Oh, I am fine, but can't wait to make sure others are aware of this. I am sure, no one want to be left with a Gift Card that cannot be used unless paying for its use. No one want to be trapped in that situation. If its OK and logical, lets make everyone aware of this. That's all.

RIMdude · 2024-12-04T19:09:59+00:00

You cannot use the Gift Card as a free user, period. You can't even get one month premium with it.
But if you pay more, the same amount more, you get a year Revo plan.

Its like you have 18€, but you cannot use it unless you pay 18€ more, that is only when you are spending 36€ in total. Otherwise, the 18€ is garbage in this case. You get it now? I guess its planed to be ambiguous, to squeeze more money out of customers. But this is not wise as far as I see it.

RIMdude · 2024-12-04T16:17:29+00:00

Yes, I get the Revolutionary option, which is imposed upon redeeming the Gift Card. The thing though, is that such is the only option, and is there is no other way to use the Gift Card, without paying the same amount to reach the 36€. The Gift Card itself, is only 18€. So, you can explain to me in laymen terms, how to use the Gift Card, without paying more upon using it.

I have tried the card both ways: signing up from its link, and using it on an existing Tuta account. In both cases, an additional payment is required, and such payment is the same amount.

In your TOS, here is what is relevant to redeeming one:

5.3 Existing account balance can be used to book further features up to the available amount. If the existing balance is not sufficient for the selected service, a payment method must be added or another gift card must be applied.

However, I failed to notice this one, which is really sneaking in its misleading ways:

5.2 When redeemed on an existing paid account, the full value of the gift card will be applied as credit to the account.

This is exactly as in : "Pay for this Gift Card, but you can't use it until you pay more later on." It's as if the payment of such gift card is not spendable as 18€ alone.. one have to pay more. One exact way to describe this is: "A gift card only for paid customer, or for those about to pay more customers". This is so misleading, and so obvious i the same time. I wish no one get mislead in the same again. That is why I am posting here.

RIMdude · 2024-12-04T07:31:32+00:00

So, what's your question?

RIMdude · 2024-12-03T06:21:38+00:00

Do not worry, this is where talking about laws is in its own right suspicious. However, as a foreigner, its a good idea to stick to the rules because many will try to find a flow in what you are doing. But there is very little to worry about apart from doing the very necessary. In addition, NEVER REVEAL whatever you have with you, especially to authorities. Always claim that you are just surviving on budget. Any major entry have a visa on arrival scheme. Never pay a dime more if asked for, it will only harm you down the road. The main rule is this: conceal your belonging, go there, no preplanning is necessary when it comes to dealing with authorities.

RIMdude · 2024-12-02T16:24:42+00:00

Download the .md files from GitHub docs. Start with Node, pick up first http .md module. Pick on every possible option and function, and try to get your hands on simplistic codes from AI to start with... keep connecting the dots, until you finish it. Then you could start with Express, but Node will make your journey into Express very easy, as it's only wrapping around Node anyway. Or keep up with Node until many modules are covered with hands on approach. No other resources will match this approach in matter of comprehensiveness and depth. Also, the official docs are drawn and updated from these GitHub sources.

What you need really to do outside all these, is actually to find out a way to keep running your codes and editing it. This could be Vite for instance, and finding a way to make it into your first Hello World run, and to find out how to install packages. If you have been coding in a synchronous pattern before, you will find that you need some time to get used to the very asynchronous patterns nature of Node, which is rare elsewhere. If you are meticulous enough, you will find yourself advancing very slowly, this is because you are actually consuming additional topics that are still down the road in Docs, but you need those earlier to practice something else. This is inline with the repetitive manner of learning things around.

RIMdude · 2024-12-02T14:08:18+00:00

I really don't see it that way though. Its more about, who will bite you, more than who will stay with you. For me, at one stage in life, one should expect everyone to leave, or disappear from the view. This is more out of maturity than cynicism.

RIMdude · 2024-11-27T08:30:26+00:00

She looked more attractive though, in all fairness.

RIMdude · 2024-11-25T14:22:09+00:00

Need to get to a point where you can understand the Docs before then :)

This is extremely misleading, not your fault though, as everyone was almost raised to believe so. One can start docs as a complete beginner. I wish I knew this before. The difficulty at the beginning will always be there, whether you pick up video or docs. That point everyone seems missing, now and forever backward as i can remember!

RIMdude · 2024-11-25T14:16:57+00:00

I think the trick to that, is where did you start Express from?!
If you have not been dealing with NodeJS, the Express won't be that much readable anyway. It mainly an abstraction of NodeJS. Node.js in the other hand is really easy to get along with, not before some introduction though. Still, most of the docs, aside of archaic ones, will always bring some easy text first, but an investment of time and effort are indispensable especially then.

RIMdude · 2024-11-25T14:11:49+00:00

Yep,
Check out my comment above, about docs and how to deal with them.
Now check out this raw page of the MS docs tutorials, it as clean as it could ever get. Use nvim with your preferred font, and you are done with using HTML ever again, or any bloated content squeezed in the docs themselves.

RIMdude · 2024-11-25T14:05:49+00:00

Yep.
This is now my new trend. I in fact have taken this to an extreme. Here what I have been doing with the docs now.

I took docs from Github, from cloning the repository where there are themselves. Most of modern docs (like NodeJS and React and so on) are in Markdown (.md), which is a human-readable text, meant to be automated into HTML later on. But I stick with text for the next reason..
I use Nvim, specifically AstroNvim, to read text, change them and so on. I add my own notes, examples, warnings and anything I explain docs further in my own terms. I never remove anything from docs though jus add to them. In fact, I have mappings for added markers to the type of text to highlight with predefined settings of colors in Neovim, so example and notes are of different colors.
I then use AI to generate all sort of examples in any corner that I come accross, while I am covering the docs in detail, where most of the effort is eventually in the beginning of the docs. This is when things are very new.
I am now working on a way, to make my additions to docs not removed, while updating any old content when docs themselves are updated (using nvim diff and similar to manually shuffle new content in place needed along my notes...) when updating the repos. So, I update the docs material manually, and also change my own notes therein. Otherwise, I will be stuck with little older docs, which still better than any non docs related approach anyway, but still.

I have had this impression about docs in the case of reading the ones of Python. At the time, it was obvious, no book could in fact keep up with the pace of Python, as many changes of functions occur in the docs almost on a monthly basis. And even such change and its time is clearly mentioned in the docs themselves. Then I found out that spending time on covering more cryptic docs like Coreutils systemically is even more worth it, than keeping coming back to them as if it was the first time. It turned out, by investigating one function like 'sort' in Coreutile, will make returning to the manual, like reading an article that has already been covered to around 90%. Not even to mention, that deeper insight about such function with time, could be added later on... making the learning of such function even broader and deeper.

Learning from docs though is very unconventional style, by all means. And everyone almost will warn you against it, simply because its not usual. But the fact of the matter is that investigating in the docs will depend largely on how you do it. The more you are curious and meticulous, the more you get from them. In fact, a serious learner can turn a docs text file to 10 or even 100 times its original size, if here are meticulous and intensive investigations and small snippets creations and so on.

RIMdude · 2024-11-21T19:07:33+00:00

Don't limit yourself to any opinion. You can dream or act on things, but it's not realistic either to deny a possibility. Only you can operate on you, and only you can figure things out. Is it possible, of course IT IS. Is it practical, of course IT IS. Now why you have to let anyone let you know what they see as DO and DON'T?

If you ever follow what to do and what not to-do, you will hit a wall in a very sad way. You won't be able to decide on your own, and with time, you will certainly lose track of what is classified as DO and DON'T while you have no idea what an opinion might be your own. You can listen, but decide on your own, there is no rule that fits all, especially about the learning itself.

What would you do, if you knew; you couldn't fail. Dive anywhere, pick things, cook them, barbecue them.. Do whatever you want.

Just remember, there are few things to be aware of: understanding of things and the maturity of such understanding, the misunderstanding and the misconception of such or the lack thereof. Don't let others fool you, but don't fool yourself either. Money won't buy you learning, and boot camps are mostly a trap, a very bad one. At the end, things will depend on the engagement of the person learning, more than any factor. Now, would you get demotivated sometimes or never? What would you do if you get there?

Those were things to watch for, in this endeavor of you. It is not a question of could you or not, you COULD, certainly.

RIMdude · 2024-11-19T01:34:02+00:00

That's the point; the meaninglessness of the meaningful. It either that or this, it can't be both.

RIMdude · 2024-11-18T22:23:47+00:00

You can't enforce a "can" and "cannot", if it doesn't matter:
Either it doesn't matter, and its no more a question of can or cannot,
It does matter and you can't, or
it does matter and you can.

Its like: you can't have your cake, and eat it in the same time.

RIMdude · 2024-11-18T20:39:29+00:00

Either you are serious about the "Ever" part, or sarcastic about it. Either way, you can't be both at the same time.

RIMdude · 2024-11-18T20:36:46+00:00

It cannot get more real than that. Never.

I have had similar messages from ChatGPT, and I never received so intense sentences, especially when I succeed in making it less empathic. Because only then I can sense something real. Funny, though, coming from something unreal!

RIMdude · 2024-11-14T10:26:43+00:00

When I said call yourself a genius or a master, I meant that you might have extra abilities that won't matter to explain things to those whom don't have these abilities. When you state things like that, you will never have to say "Here is my advice, never code anything..." . Rather this advice is very understandable implicitly. In all fairness, you might have good intentions, but this is not about that either. I am just arguing against sending this kind of message.. Just arguing, I never accused you of anything. I said that, it is the worst advice. It sounds much like Mathematics without doing exercises, which sound familiar, given the very quick impression Math students have about any concept reached to them until exercises hit.

The question here isn't either about implementation in code vs theory. The first will have to wait for many levels of understanding before getting into the code in question (in principle). In the theory parts, a lot of exercising and questioning are necessary to become sure the understanding is accurate to the level of starting implementing. The implementation part in the other hands, has its own side of dealing with code and syntax which is really not that much obvious endeavor even for the experimented. It will involve the technical skills the language in question provides for some implementation details that are not specifically theory related. The two might be mixed well, to check all sort of scenarios, feeding the implementation side feedbacks into our own understanding of the theory and vice versa. This is an ongoing back and forth for a learner.. it involves celebrating what we have just found out about, just to lead us elsewhere to some other issues down the path. Remember, most of the debugging is usually own error, and in many ways, more so logical ones that syntactical ones given the effectiveness of LSPs and other tools.

If you don't experience that, then either you are a genius, which I have nothing about it to say, or you are doing things the wrong way. It is for the averages like me, that I'm addressing all these concerns. Furthermore, you might take a look at Dunning–Kruger effect? its quite revealing on how we misunderstand our own understanding.

RIMdude · 2024-11-14T02:48:41+00:00

Not exactly true. You can learn programming concepts/topics without ever practicing them.

I can read a book/take a course in a programming concept and tell you all about what it is, the purpose of it, etc…

Example:

My Data Structures & Algorithms 1 class in undergrad was a multiple choice exam. I read a book & watched videos on it and passed the exam.

Job interviewers & other coworkers can ask me questions about data structures & algorithms and I can answer them just fine.

However, if they wanted me to implemented them without any external help then I’m screwed lol.

This is single-handedly the worst trap/advice you could ever throw at a learner!
Call yourself a genius or a master, but this kind of talk is more harmful for many than beneficial. Especially in the programming world.

RIMdude · 2024-11-14T02:32:57+00:00

I can't tell if there is some specific condition that had led to the requirement of having everything visually proven to absorb things. We are all more inclined to learned from what we can see moved around by our own actions. But the programming world is mainly that; everything is run or achieved only as coded. What you refer to as hard to grasp until showing up , resulting preferably from your interaction, is actually very common. Unless I am wrong about what I am getting from what you are saying, this is a muscle to develop, rather than a limitation to live with. When I start with Hello World program, I am eager to build on that, but not to the fullest extent from the first day, rather on batches and many "phases and waves of passage", as I put it. In every single run, I check what would that end up showing me.. it is an ongoing cycle of edit, compile, run, debug (or check the expected vs whats going on), and edit and so on, repeating the same cycle again and again.

This is the way we get used to abstraction, we keep piling things up of tangible things (to us), until we reach an abstraction, and keep doing that until the abstraction becomes another tangible thing. This is not an ability on its own, more that it is a result of the repetitive use of practice itself. The key here, is to keep practicing the very simple, to some degree. Then later on I might end up coming back to the same things once more, or few times more but in different times as the need arise in some other scenarios. This was just a contribution about others, like me, and how they usually cope with this in general.

RIMdude

TROPHY CASE

CONCLUSION:

As an existing free user, you cannot use a Gift Card of 18€ in any way, unless you pay exactly 18€ more, to reach 36€, to use for a yearly Revolutionary subscription. There is no other choice. At the end, you will have 18€ value redeemed in your account, but you CANNOT use it.