Nobody is going to rush to implement a payment system where the fees can change 5x hour to hour because that’s just customer dissatisfaction waiting to happen.

But it’s not variable so the seller prices it in. Switch to Bitcoin and you have to pay it while prices likely stay the same. Also lately most of my games have been under 30 EUR tbh

A dollar in fees is a dollar more than with fiat for the person paying. That and do you expect enough normal people to learn about L2s and chains to make it worthwhile for Valve or whoever to implement support for anything besides the main chains of 2-3 major cryptos and stablecoins on ethereum main?

Two coupes and a gran coupe.

And they’re way too thin to be Americans lol, also the entire group looks Asian

Not very big cars and they’re not Americans.

Grass does look weird though

I’m in Europe, but latitude is about the same as Anchorage, Alaska.

For winter it’s not uncommon to have auxiliary heating that starts off a remote or app. Plus you wear clothes to make up for it

Summer is like 4-5 minutes of idling and then it’s not TOO bad to get inside. Unless you parked straight in the sun and your first drive of the day is in the afternoon.

Best car I’ve ever owned was a rusty 2003 MB E-class. 4 zone climate went down to 12C, seats were heated and ventilated, and you could set it to run the interior fan for 30 min with ignition off. 1000 miles to a tank of diesel.

Cost me a whopping 3k. They’re available as diesels in the US too (2005 MY only) and last about a million miles, but US did not get the diesel in the wagon body style I had, which made it the ultimate do-anything car

35C/100% is literal death for humans. I would literally kill myself whereever you live.

Also we have diesel cars here. Half a gallon gets you like 2-3 hours of idling lol

Or just don’t get in the car before it’s cold lol, wouldn’t do that with cloth seats either plus I wouldn’t want to sweat into those anyway, they absorb the sweat

Never seen windows cool a car down enough in the summer. I also cool my car to about 15C in the summer. What sweat?

Lmao

It’s a very different fabric from seats, which need to last way longer and use tougher fabrics.

Yeah, but then you give PayPal a whole bunch of control over your bank account. IIRC they can just withdraw whenever they want?

With card payments, there’s chargebacks for fraudulent transfers or if a vendor refuses a refund on fraudulent grounds. Those are just not a thing for bank transfers, at least not where I come from.

Personally, most of the time I make a payment, it’s a bank transfer (they’re instant most of the time anyway between SEPA accounts and under 10k per transfer or whatever). But there are many benefits of a card payment. Others include: Collecting points (on credit cards in some countries, or something like a Revolut card on any plan other than the free one), purchase insurance, etc.

People are always going to want to make card payments. We need better alternatives in the card company space, and standards to make sure every vendor can accept payments from every card type.

Ah, but in Java, unless they’ve changed things lately, you have the curly brace syntax of most C-like languages

if ("strawberry" in token_list) {
    return something;
}

Python is one of the very few languages where you use colons and whitespace to denote blocks of code

Well firstly it’s Python, secondly it’s not a command and thirdly it’s a joke - however, they have manually patched some outputs for sure. Probably by adding to the setup/initialization prompt

Everyone talks about dinner first, then sex. But sex makes hungry. Wouldn’t it be better to have sex first, THEN go eat dinner and grab drinks?

The “to each” part refers to the software they receive in this case I believe. Money in FOSS is… Yeah.

It’s because participating in FOSS is completely voluntary whereas participating in an economic system is not

I can’t even stand clothes that rub against my skin the wrong way, let alone car seats lol. Maybe some sort of sensory overload issue for me.

Where I live, it gets so cold you can’t drive away right after starting the engine anyway, you won’t see through your windows. You start the engine and heated seats and heated rear window (and front if you have a Ford) and then start clearing the ice off your windows.

In the summer, hot car is hot regardless of seats. Start the car and AC, have a cigarette or finish your chat, then get in the car.

I know some of those, but they don’t count.

Most of those are still just going to use Visa and Mastercard underneath to process payments by card… Since those are mostly all Visa or Mastercard. There are exceptions but those are regional.

There are a lot of “payment processors” but only 2 major card companies and that’s an issue.

Estonia. I’ve seen 1980s or 90s heaps of junk with heated seats. It’s kind of a requirement when it gets to -33C in the winter. It’s also very cheap for manufacturers to add, so a lot of them include it as standard equipment in northern countries.

It was more common than AC here until AC became standard equipment in cars.

I’m not American and even I only know Visa and Mastercard. I know there used to be Maestro, but that was also owned by Mastercard. So what else is there that works globally?