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@AVincentInSpace @dragonfi @lina @stella @trumpet also from what i have heard the lack of online on maestro/vpay is not global
because at least in chile you can use either to pay online. on chilean websites. assuming your card is with a chilean bank.
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@AVincentInSpace @dragonfi @lina @stella @trumpet nowadays i got a card that can do it all (germany-only debit, international legacy debit, and new debit) which is handy because to this day there’s still disparities with what you can use where (no cash withdrawal on mastercard/visa, unless it’s debit and a netto, unless that netto has a dog as a mascot. also on atms with a fee. also no tobacco either.)
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@lina @AVincentInSpace @dragonfi @stella @trumpet it used to be a huge pain in germany to find a place that gave you the latter because the legacy debit card works for offline transactions and for online transactions you obviously could “just use” bank transfers with the IBAN that is printed on them, while banks are not particularly happy about just handing out loans every month
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@lina @AVincentInSpace @dragonfi @stella @trumpet probably the difference between pure/legacy debit cards like maestro or vpay (which may not even have a card number on them) and visa/mastercard debit which are like credit cards in most ways except that they are debit-backed instead of loan-backed and have lower fees
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@CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @prettygood @rk it’s not a perfect mapping since sd cards are either sd if the reader is usb-based or mmcblk if not
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@CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @rk @prettygood sd* are scsi disks which also include sata and usb mass storage disks due to both being built on the scsi subsystem in linux
sr being scsi rotational media like dvds, st being scsi tape
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i understand 6-7 on a visceral level now because i don’t think i can explain to anyone why i was laughing my ass off for a solid 5 minutes over the word “cantina”