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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • First a $40 fee just to swipe plastic is stupid, even VISA don’t charge anywhere near that much for the card machine operator. Sorry you have to deal with that.

    Also does the US not have smartphone banking apps? Do you have to pay fees for a bank transfer? Is it the landlord setting those fees? I’m confused how a free at point of use system is getting slapped with a fee.

    Why does everyone in the US have to write cheques to eachother, wasting everyone’s time going in person to the bank to cash them in? Even my employer just does a bank transfer to pay me my income.









  • Yeah, speaking as an electronics engineer who’s going through a new product release at work, swapping the screen to a different model, never mind a new display technology, means dealing with slightly different MIPI and TCP ribbon cable layouts. Unless you have a separate screen adapter PCB daughter board, that means redoing the track layout on the main board.

    So yeah, it sucks a bit for the consumer but it’s expected. I’d imagine Valve’s engineers tried very hard to find an OLED screen that would work as a drop in replacement. At least they’re not making promises they can’t keep, which happens a lot: Companies often lie through omission on their spec sheets.