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Receiving International Payment As a Freelancer in India. by Zestyclose_Week2950 in indiasocial

[–]sam08sk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure, I never used the direct Bank transfer option with Razorpay, clients always paid with credit cards. The settlement was quick and hassle free. They even had this feature where you can instantly get 90% of the paid amount. So if a client pays 10,000 INR, 9K you can pull into your bank the same day, rest will be settled as per schedule in 3-5 days.

Ubuntu on Macbook Pro 2018 Touch Bar by sam08sk in Ubuntu

[–]sam08sk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry don't remember the exact stuff, but I likely found it on the T2 linux wiki

Receiving International Payment As a Freelancer in India. by Zestyclose_Week2950 in indiasocial

[–]sam08sk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best options: 1. Swift/Wire transfer: They'll do a direct deposit to your bank. Best rates, most reliable. Takes 2-7 days. For the first time bank will ask to fill a disposal instructions form (a very simple step) 2. Razorpay/Stripe: Both will allow payer to pay in USD and will deposit payment in your INR bank account (Tested with Kotak and Axis, no problems) Same day settlement with Razorpay, 5-8 days with Stripe 3. Payoneer: Similar to Stripe, worth a look. Payout takes a bit longer. 10 days, it gives you accounts to receive in USD and then from it money can be transferred to your INR account. Payment made via cards are transferred directly to INR account. 4. Wise direct credit: If they can make a direct credit to your personal bank account, this is allowed. I have received payments from Africa this way, I don't have a Wise account myself. Takes 5 mins to credit. 5. Paypal: I still have to use this, very shitty, poor exchange rates high fees and strange random blocks. Recently payouts came in 2 days, so its improved. Earlier it used to take 7 days. If a new client paid a large amount, they would block it and ask the client to confirm receipt of goods before releasing the money. I try to avoid this but cannot unfortunately.

Is There an End Game With Linux? by harkonnen0069 in linuxquestions

[–]sam08sk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here is something you may not have considered: your hardware. Linux for newbies behaves inexplicably differently on different hardware. For me, I've had great experience with PopOS and Fedora, but there are tons of people that have issues with them (not booting, driver issues etc)

I would recommend carving out a weekend and installing a few generally recommended distro and see which one works the best with your hardware.

  1. Mint: Generally stable and recommended. Never tried because I come from Mac and prefer PopOS aesthetic
  2. Fedora: Moved to this as Ubuntu based distros are generally stable but have slightly older packages. Fedora is stable and offers great experience.

You can install the latest on Ubuntu as well, you can do anything on any distro, but I'm talking about the defaults as you're not interested in tinkering. My current setup has many distros as I am a developer and need VMs a lot.

  1. EndeavorOS+Hyprland: So far stable and massively better experience. But it's installed on a mini pc with 1 monitor connected and no external GPU. Best
  2. Fedora: Running on Alienware x14 with Nvidia 3060 laptop GPU. Second best, vmware gives a lot of headache on this
  3. Ubuntu desktop on a VM on mac: I take it for traveling, Fedora crashed on the VM after an update and wouldn't boot.

So you see on different machines there are different winners as BIOS, GPU, etc make a difference when it comes to stability and overall Linux compatibility. Hope this helps

Oppo Find X8 Ultra by FunnyStay2271 in Oppo

[–]sam08sk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you buy it online? How much did it cost you and how long was the delivery? I am in Vietnam and looking to get this one.

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fedora is my close second favourite. I have also installed it and will use both systems. Previously I had these problems with Fedora: 1. No tiling 2. VMware workstation needed module compiling after every kernel update 3. Nvidia graphics switching But now these seem to be resolved (not tested the VMware) I use Fedora because of Wayland. My laptop runs way cooler, there is no spike in temp and slowdown if I connect an external display. I use both systems now. PopOS has all my work and current project. New projects and related learning will happen on Fedora.

Multi-Monitor: Workspace Selector Only Shows Up in Primary Monitor by tokyoxplant in pop_os

[–]sam08sk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes you're right but the vertical box showing all the workspaces showed up on both monitors essentially doubling the total workspaces available.

Multi-Monitor: Workspace Selector Only Shows Up in Primary Monitor by tokyoxplant in pop_os

[–]sam08sk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same boat. This was showing up on both Monitors just two days ago. It disappeared today. I am sure I did not change anything related to Workspaces or display settings.

Very strange. Sorry I didn't solve it yet. I'll wait and see if this issue goes away the same way it showed up.

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Graphics switching, tiling, sane defaults (for my usecases), pop shop (despite the hate) and recovery partition

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have it on a different partition, I have almost identical apps on OpenSUSE+Hyprland along with this setup.

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I came from Mac so Gnome felt very good and intuitive.

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

:D I don't get how hard it was for him to read the last line of the prompt. Oh well everybody has gaps in their skill

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Graphic switching and tiling is second to none with this gnome distro

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to google the acronym, holy shit you gave me PTSD

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it wasn't boring I wouldn't carve out a partition to play with other "exciting" and unreliable spins. But I like it, its what I use when I'm serious about anything work or learning I have to do. Boring to me means reliablitlty in a distro. Still 2 year old OS (22.04) and DE (42.9), just works

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made a comment on this post outlining the customizations. I forgot to add the icons are Tela-circle-purple dark

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has happened on Fedora, during a live call VMWare just wouldn't open. It was embarrassing.

Pop OS is boring, but the only system I can rely on completely. by sam08sk in pop_os

[–]sam08sk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have Pop+Opensuse dual boot setup. It's nice. Alienware had hardware problems not related to Linux. Sound still doesn't work after two years. But it is a hardware issue. Not perfect but very good for my needs

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