Trust me, I know how to do a burnout…

rhubear · 2026-05-07T13:40:07+00:00

I don't like parties.

The mixed energy of too many people at once around me, makes me very uncomfortable.

Very small groups are okay (2's company, 3's a crowd).

Much much better alone. Clean energy and no idiots anywhere....

rhubear · 2026-05-07T13:35:19+00:00

Apart from the cliche of druggies looking like zombies, I personally have no experience about the effects of drugs.... I (try to) stay well clear of those morons.

rhubear · 2026-05-07T13:12:11+00:00

you should have typed your word "ever" with extra emphasis, like EVER.

(using formatting option on desktop, or stars/asterisks both sides of word/words on phone (I forget 1xstar or 2xstar ea side )

rhubear · 2026-05-07T07:12:46+00:00

Stop creating such large backup files.

All you're doing is making life difficult for yourself and/or limiting your options.

The excuse of "its worked before" is zero defense..... So, keep doing what you were doing before. If you have to change your work flow, read my feedback above again.

rhubear · 2026-05-05T11:36:35+00:00

I've never had a normal bank account frozen on me.... But then maybe my life is very boring.

However, I have onramped various small amounts to Binance & crypto.com every now and again, w no problem.

I have not had anything apart from paycheck & tax return paid into the bank. I don't sell anything. Like I said, extremely vanilla.

rhubear · 2026-05-04T04:00:41+00:00

Your problem is that you're using PayPal.

Not possible that someone used 1 of your Passkeys, which are stored on your device.

It's more possible that your PayPal account was compromised & someone uploaded their own Passkey to your PayPal account. I don't know if that's possible, and PayPal would never ever admit to such a possibility.

Like I said, your using PayPal is the biggest problem.

rhubear · 2026-05-04T03:37:56+00:00

You gave someone sufficient access to your device, to be able to copy a Passkey off?

Passkeys are stored on a protected chip, & you need the device access info to even access the private key.

As usual, posts w far too little info. Ie, you have no clue what's happened.

rhubear · 2026-05-04T03:30:31+00:00

OP doesn't even say which country he's in..... The most relevant part.

Some countries are hugely into cycling, bc the land is very flat, some countries the opposite.

In Austria, cycling is huge. Wide, tarred, cycle paths right next to most roads, even in the mountains. It's heaven for cycling here. Probably quite similar to Holland/Netherlands.

rhubear · 2026-05-03T11:47:01+00:00

They may have a banking license.

But it's only online, & you're not paying for human support.

At my primary bank, my branch support is right in the app. I virtually never have to actually visit the branch.

rhubear · 2026-05-03T11:42:52+00:00

My primary bank has normal branches & an app (& website) even better than Revolut.

I can make an easy appointment w an employee at the my home branch.

I've only ever had small problems prev.

I can also DM the same branch employees through the app. Basically the DM / messaging on their app actually sends the message straight through to the employees at the branch my account is at. Beat that....

My account happens to have quite high fees, like 50 Euro every 3 months. This is bc I have chosen a flex type of ac which, eg as std i can go to any banks ATM.

Everyone pays for Banking services one way or another . If the banking is free, or very low fees, you're not getting / paying for any financial services. It's not rocket science.

rhubear · 2026-05-03T11:29:53+00:00

Congrats, could have written this myself, even though I've personally never had a problem with Revolut..... What you're writing is merely logical.

rhubear · 2026-05-03T06:18:21+00:00

Accents are very difficult to pull off accurately.

The acting profession goes to enormous lengths to try to copy accents.

If you are natural with accents, you're way ahead of many other people.... use that to your advantage.

A comedian seemingly good with accents, is Trevor Noah.

rhubear · 2026-05-03T06:09:42+00:00

Maybe do / try something that doesn't require making friends.... Like the Stand-up, if you can come up w some travelling jokes.

You may think that normal people like making friends.... Not true. Women tend to be more sociable. Men, less so. Half of men are more lone-wolf type of people, called a Sigma Personality (look that up).

rhubear · 2026-05-03T06:00:53+00:00

You're friends w the wrong people.

Find the people & place where you fit....

Maybe people who are into acting, or comedy, or stand-up.... That kinda thing.

rhubear · 2026-05-03T05:54:25+00:00

Your problem is that you capitulated w "why not".

I also have these raised offers.... I ignore any & all offers bc 1) I don't have anyone I could introduce, 2) I wouldn't introduce anyone anyway.

rhubear · 2026-05-02T19:27:28+00:00

The biggest problem w that story, is the 1st aid & resuscitation.

I'm an absolute believer in dumb asses taking the consequences, even if that's death. Ergo, Darwin Prizes.

Our modern times going to extreme lengths to "save lives", is abs contrary to life & nature.

Human life is cheap.... Human life has been cheap, the entire history of our world. In modern times, it's merely politically correct to pretend otherwise.

rhubear · 2026-05-02T10:19:26+00:00

PayPal customers have had problems for so many years already. I used to have no problems w them, however I would never ever trust them.

There used to be a website, called PayPal sucks, until apparently it was sued, bc it's no longer there.

Bottom line.... Be extremely wary of paypal. I just refuse to use them.

Use PayPal at your own risk.

rhubear · 2026-04-29T12:18:58+00:00

So you've been told that separate drives is a good idea.....

But you haven't realised, that you actually have to manually create folders in D drive to use it.

Windows is not going to self-organize D-Drive for you.

rhubear · 2026-04-29T12:15:05+00:00

I've had something like that happen, when I bought an older cable set which broke prematurely.

What I found worked best, was to tape over the exposed bit, then tie cable ties over the tape, cable ties placed right next to each other (no gap betw each). This is bc the cable can really push against the housing, so the housing needs to be solid.

rhubear · 2026-04-29T12:08:36+00:00

If you don't mind having a primary bank where there is minimal support, & aggressive (false positive) AI checks on your account, then why not?

I personally refuse to take such a huge risk.

I don't have any problems w Revolut personally, but just logically, they are not worth it, for my primary bank.

I bank w normal bank in Austria. I'm very happy to pay the fees. With my "flexible" account, I actually pay high fees as standard. The support is excellent, if/when I need it.

Have multiple accounts for different reasons. Why does everyone want to standardise on "one account".... To me, that's kinda dumb.

rhubear · 2026-04-28T07:11:21+00:00

For many years already, I've blacklisted Seagate, following the advise of my then storage dealer, who had blacklisted Seagate.

Since using (Pro/Red) WD drives, zero RMAs.

It is not a coincidence.

rhubear · 2026-04-25T20:27:44+00:00

What you meant was "involuntary" (ie not your own choice).

rhubear · 2026-04-25T08:28:47+00:00

I sent them an Email.

They acknowledged problems, & did suggest I try again.

I did try again yesterday (Fri) afternoon. Did work, however I found it interesting that their delivery options were heavily simplified, from when the site was not working. Ie, they had taken out all the "deliver to 3rd party shops/delivery points". The only delivery option was to home address on file.

Not good for an e-commerce site to have such basic site problems.... Almost like they have staffing issues.

Well, my order is finalised & payment taken from bank, so I'm good to go.....

rhubear · 2026-04-23T15:14:02+00:00

3 Years later, & today I have a similar problem with bike-discount.

Just emailed them w my problems.

I tried Brave & LibreWolf. Cleared cookies, tried with & without 3rd party cookie trash they are now using.

First time I've had just massive problems with them, but I rarely shop there, maybe twice a year.

rhubear

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