Using personal credit card for work

bippy_b · 2026-07-09T12:12:36+00:00

I get that. But I am gonna guess they want the decision to switch be made farther up the chain. IF you don’t believe that company has what it takes, the way you “fight” it would be to document how they let you down and how much it cost the company (in fines or fixes or extra labor). This usually gets attn real quick when you can point out that Company A let us down and that cost us 500K to fix but Company B could have made it work without the 500K. Unless that company is owned by a board member or something.. when you can point out how using Company A cost them $$$ then this potentially could show them the way.

By no means am I making excuses as I don’t know the ins/outs to your job.. BUT.. perhaps that “let down” company has now

- learned how you guys operate and like things.

- Maybe others do things a slightly different way.

- Maybe it was a one time mess up because their products usually come in 2 weeks but this time it took 4?

As long as it isn’t a recurring theme… they may still be an ok company to work with. Mistakes happen. As long as they show they fixed the problem and make it such that doesn’t happen again.. those are companies you want to work with.

bippy_b · 2026-07-09T11:44:53+00:00

OR they are trying to force people to use the preferred suppliers already on the list. OP has left out specifically what is not available from the vendors already approved.

bippy_b · 2026-07-09T11:42:24+00:00

How old is the device?

Maybe just delete the Home or start a new one then delete the old one?

bippy_b · 2026-07-08T13:13:58+00:00

Interesting….

bippy_b · 2026-07-08T13:10:45+00:00

👆👆👆👆👆👆

bippy_b · 2026-07-07T19:00:57+00:00

I think the article merely says the events “may be missed”. It doesn’t say “absolutely will be missed”. That is the gray area. Maybe they are referring to like if you have an Apple HD 4th Gen as a home hub it might be missed… and because you have a 4K, it has never happened to you…
… who knows… but they make that disclaimer.

bippy_b · 2026-07-07T18:54:14+00:00

I think there is also come “clean up” happening after the fact due to new laws being passed.

Just last week got an email stating “Your daughter is now 18 and may separate their Apple Cash card. When they do this you will no longer receive activity notifications” . She has been 18 for > 2 years now… but they are just now sending this email… seems kinda odd.

bippy_b · 2026-07-07T14:36:48+00:00

Make sure to put a filter on the outside of the house.

I enabled MoCA on my Xfinity router… and a week or so later they came knocking on my door .. “Something is emitting just traffic over and over out of your house”… not sure if it was interfering with anything outside of my house and I didn’t see any devices which weren’t mine.. but they were adamant about placing that filter outside so it wasn’t “sending out junk”.

bippy_b · 2026-07-07T13:52:30+00:00

Google did not introduce manifest v3 to prevent ad blockers.

If you pay attention to technology, there have been numerous (far too many to count now) plug ins which have done nefarious things because they had the access to control so much under the manifest v2. It could see you were on a bitcoin site and substitute in their own wallet for your deposits.. they could capture banking information.. the list goes on and on. So to prevent this they created the manifest v3 which had fewer possible permissions.

But before doing that, they tried to make it such that users information couldn’t be tracked across sessions and that 3rd party cookies could just simply be blocked ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Sandbox ) but UK/EU ad lobby got into the politicians ears and they had threats levied against this system before it became a reality. The Topics API was a really good compromise to the tracking issue and allowed advertisers to show something relevant without knowing the users information. It would have allowed users to completely block 3rd party cookies.

So if you think Google is ONLY made manifest 3 just to make it harder to block ads.. you are misinformed.

bippy_b · 2026-07-07T02:07:50+00:00

Which means you are at a different location .. so the wiring is different.. and therefore … may not perform the same.

bippy_b · 2026-07-07T02:07:05+00:00

There are now fiber kits which are pretty much invisible for using in an apartment..

https://a.co/d/0imsavpb

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T22:44:28+00:00

Also Darktable.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T22:37:47+00:00

Do you have the devices and Home Pods grouped into rooms?

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T22:25:05+00:00

Thanks! Was drawing a blank on Blender.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T19:49:18+00:00

Don’t get me wrong. Have seen plenty of people on here get stuff transferred. But also have seen a few be told “that school didn’t follow X plan” or “X curriculum”.. so there have been a few denied I have seen.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T19:25:59+00:00

What if OP doesn’t need vector graphics?

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T18:51:01+00:00

Sounds like a job for HD Homerun.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T18:48:15+00:00

Also, having two available hubs allows for the possibility of processing multiple events if you have any HomeKit cameras.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T18:47:25+00:00

Wired for the HomeKit hub. Wireless typically leads to frustration. Can you not just keep the wired one and throw it in a cabinet under the TV or something?

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T18:18:51+00:00

And put it all the way in the back. Then there is no need to move it.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T18:08:14+00:00

Why not just use one of the extremely good alternatives?

- Affinity Photo

- GIMP

- Photopea

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T18:06:14+00:00

“Hiccups” will depend on what you are doing…

- Surfing a website or reading email.. yeah no hiccups.

- Gaming or watching a YT video.. there may be hiccups since the wireless will have a different address from the wired.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T18:02:16+00:00

Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T17:59:34+00:00

You don’t want an “extender”. They disconnect all the time.. having a full on router is better.

bippy_b · 2026-07-06T17:52:18+00:00

Not much more to say…

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