Letter paper (8.5" x 11" | 215.9mm x 279.4mm) is kinda sorta pretty close to A4 (8.27" x 11.69" | 210mm x 297mm) so without having the two next to each other, it can seem like A4 is just a funny piece of letter, and vice versa. But to answer the actual question, USA and Canada (and apparently the phillipines???) use the “North American Standard” which is a terrifying mess in comparison to the beauty that is the ISO standard.

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It’s a (probably ai gen) DND druid meme???

It’s a paid search engine, so their only priority is serving you good search results. It feels like using google before the 2012-ish enshittification.

Have you tried Kagi?

All your explanation is neat and all, but I’m going to stop engaging. You’re refuting/attacking points that are systemically related to what I’m talking about, but aren’t actual values I hold, nor have I indicated I hold them. I will however address 2 things you said, just for fun:

I believe you didn’t intend to. I also believe a lot of those who upvoted you totally think you did.

Argue with them when they comment with incorrect interpretations then? Why are you arguing with me about how my (in my opinion) incredibly clear non-endorsement of a system could have been interpreted by some people that left upvotes?

It is bad. Destroying families bad.

Yes? Again, nominally I agree with everything you’ve said, you just dont understand the north american tipping system, or that saying “how it works” is not the same as saying “how this good and well designed system functions”

Oh and for what it’s worth, I promise you that the upvotes on my comment in fucking 196 weren’t because of some imagined endorsement for tipping culture or capitalism (again, we’re in 196). They were most likely because you are being truly insufferable.

You’ll get a lot farther with people being kinder in their corrections of your incorrect presumptions if you vibe check yourself and cool it with the providing the enlightened eurobrain takes.

If I were you, I’d be a tad more cautious with the use of that word, “works”. Seems a lil bit overblown for what you are talking about.

I know the north american tipping system is a top-down broken trash fire. You’ll find that I never actually endorsed the system, just commented on the reality of it. It’s possible for someone to acknowledge how something works (“how it works” =/= an endorsement of functionality) while understanding that the system itself is negatively impactful to those inside it

If you don’t check the amount before entering the pin, it’s a you problem.

I’m not an American, so someone else is free to correct me, but most of the US is still being introduced to chip cards. I believe there’s still places where it’s not exactly uncommon for the server to swipe for you.

But then, you are legally allowed to literally kill them, right?

Holy bad faith Batman

if you can’t afford having employees, then don’t.

Yes… I agree. I never actually endorsed the north american system though?

A cursory glance at your profile tells me that we’re probably roughly equally far left, so why are you trying to start a war here when I was merely trying to correct your functional understanding of a system.

I’m not going to shame you for being a eurobrain, but why would you start talking authoritatively on the deranged state of North American tipping culture when you dont seem to understand how it works?

It’s surprisingly common for cashiers to re-enter your tip amount for you when they reset the machine if there was an issue with your transaction, or maybe they fudged the automatic gratuity on a large party, or maybe the person needed assistance with the machine and the cashier decided that was their chance… Unfortunately when people’s incomes rely on tips, and a tip is expected on every meal, it’s only a matter of time before someone takes advantage, and unfortunately some people just… Aren’t super observant.

As terrible as Capital One is (extremely bad), this isn’t a dark pattern to keep you from spending money, they get more out of you if you spend more on your Credit card because of the interest on repayments.

I’m going to very sincerely disagree. You can see it as misinterpretation if you like, but I believe there’s functionally no difference between the two statements you’ve provided and as long as the right is trying to come up with any excuse to outlaw our existence, its optically beneficial to come up with ways of educating people who may be “eggs” about being trans/enby that are informative, but are less likely to fuel a deranged groomer witchhunt. I’m glad it helped you and your friends, but given the political climate, I believe we should avoid terms that endanger us more than needed.

Continue using it, I certainly won’t stop you. But I’m not going to start.

Frankly idgaf about the prime directive (edit: this is perhaps an exaggeration, I meant I wasn’t necessarily referring to the prime directive) , but as an enby person, I think going around saying “doing this makes you an egg” is pretty antithetical to people not wanting to be judged for not complying with the gender roles that correspond with their assigned gender.

I don’t think egg jokes are healthy for the trans community homie

We love to see it. Welcome to your journey :)

The point is that if someone really wants to get into your device, they will. It doesn’t matter if youre using open source firmware, in a custom implementation of linux, on a MIPS CPU, and you personally build every package from source and complete a compliance code review before installing it, etc.etc.etc. If government agency x is targeting you specifically, your best line of security is to lock your device in a safe, take a boat into the middle of the ocean, and then dump it at an unrecorded location and never retrieve it.

A device is only secure as long as you are not using it, and it is not accessible physically, or by network.

You do you dude, I’m just saying your advice is awful for the average user.

Does your threat model involve The Mossad? There’s no way on earth that you are genuinely remembering multiple 512 byte random passwords, let alone actually taking the time to type them in.

Having a password manager, with MFA, a strong master password, and rule based device verification is ultimately more secure as you can have every password be randomized.

Best practices are best practices for a reason. I recommend you follow them.

Genuinely terrible advice. Every popularly available password manager service hashes all your passwords, if they have a data breach they have extremely strict reporting compliance and the majority of services will re-hash all your passwords. If youre so extremely concerned about that, host your own.

But what concerns me the most is

Unless they specify they only store the hash I refuse to sacrifice one of my strong passwords.

… What to you mean sacrifice?

God, they really need better transit infrastructure down there >!/s!<

Seethe harder pal, facts don’t care about your bigoted delusions

Nano good

There’s lots of people willing to do that, your sexual preferences do not map to the whole of humanity