Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:03:25 +0000 Subject: Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <66c5199f@news.ausics.net> From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: vector apex Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:03:24 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <66c5199f@news.ausics.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 47 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-jhRo0yLDDA1qVKnlTHaSD/sYgqZ5zn2mm+SSrMJxUCxH6rJa9y3WIxJ4yh6hvdedp/mREKZEaBT5/e2!NsnJufBaZ9JalYEcRK9w4l3jAo3ZIxE4GMlOxbHj/HNWS592oeaRqJQYd4sF4I7DSP79LRG5t5S5!OAisd7BB4paT1JXsQT19 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3487 On 8/20/24 6:33 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote: >> On 8/19/24 4:06 AM, Marc Haber wrote: >>> Aliexpress has more of those, but many of those come without docs, so >>> it's basically luck to get it to work, and if you want to have some >>> continuity in buying Aliexpress is a bad idea. >> >> I never buy from Ali. Decided awhile back to just >> get ONE nice USA Amazon acct. If they don't have >> it I don't buy it. Don't wanna make my card >> numbers even more accessible to the PRC. > > They do accept PayPal now. Long back I started to set up a PayPal acct, but changed my mind, cancelled, about halfway thru. Then for weeks I kept getting fake "Your PayPal Account May Have Been Compromised - Log In Here !" mails :-) > Plus since I use pre-paid cards for > online transactions with only enough money loaded for each > purchase, any fraud attempts would likely fail quietly due to > "insufficient funds", or at least be easily spotted. Pre-paid cards can be good, or too limiting. My main cardholder USED to have a utility for creating a "fake" card with just x-dollars on it up to y-date. But then ownerships changed and that went away. IMHO it was VERY useful and needs to make a big come-back. Meanwhile, well, I just keep relatively low limits on my few cards. Most frauds go for the low-hanging fruit and then vanish - not gonna bother trying to increase the limits or anything. Also real CCs now come with a number of legal protections against fraud - ones that other forms of payment don't have. How many biz want a routing number directly into a checking/savings account now ? DON'T. Got yer bank accounts with "overdraft protection" so if one gets drained they can start draining all the others ? DON'T.