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Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps

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On 11/28/25 07:09, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-11-28 04:25, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:11:43 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:
>>
>>> Slackware (US) and OpenBSD (Canada) will accept checks. But I do not
>>> know if they can cash checks in a currency not associated with their
>>> Country.
>>
>> I dimly recall receiving such a foreign-currency cheque many decades ago.
>>
>> The bank said they could clear it (less some suitable fees, of
>> course), but it would take a few days. I was happy with that.
>>
>> Might have been a bank cheque, not a personal cheque.
> 
> Way before the euro, 1976, my father and me travelled to the UK. The 
> amount of money in bills we were allowed to take out of the country was 
> limited by law. My father took a bank cheque to cash in London or 
> Birmingham, and it was not easy. I think that we had to find the office 
> of our Spanish bank in London, the Santander (BSCH now).
> 
> In retrospect, I wonder why not use a credit card, but we did not have 
> any. I do not know why.
> 
> On other trips, we used traveller cheques, those were new but easy to use.

   Credit Cards go back a ways ... but weren't as plugged-in
   as we know them now until much later, late 70s perhaps.
   I recall commercials for American Express ... the card
   everyone would take anywhere.

   Now it's the card almost nobody takes  :-)

   Travelers Checks *were* pretty good and easy. You
   can still buy them ... though not so sure they'll
   be so widely accepted these days. More secure than
   CCs and esp direct bank xfers via phones.

   ANYWAY, it today's Vlad-infested environment, I do
   NOT provide CC numbers, much less bank routing
   numbers, to anything but a VERY narrow handful of
   well-known corps - ones I can *sue* if they
   mishandle the money. If I can't buy it on Amazon
   then I probably won't buy it. Damage me and I'll
   damage you back. Fair.

   Paranoid ... or REAL ?

   Hell, gimme a name and physical address
   for Linux-X ... then I'll send a platinum
   coin or something  :-)

   Hmmm ... How about a "FundLinux.net" ... click
   a box as to which distros/projects you want to
   fund ? Still gotta be able to SUE them if they
   leave all the numbers in Vlad's easy reach ...

   Oh, USA esp, time to change EVERYONEs ID
   and account numbers. Do it every five years
   or so - maybe more often as AI-assisted
   attacks are escalating.

   Oh, odd note, in Florida gold coins are now
   considered proper legal currency again. Alas
   a biz would need an expensive x-ray florescence
   device to be SURE they weren't being scammed.

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  Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-11-27 10:16 +0000
    Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-27 22:04 -0500
      Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-28 06:26 +0000
  Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-27 13:10 +0100
    Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-11-28 20:37 +0000
      Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-29 02:05 +0000
        Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-29 11:31 +0000
  Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-27 20:21 +0000
  Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> - 2025-11-28 01:11 +0000
    Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-28 03:25 +0000
      Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-28 13:09 +0100
        Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-28 22:50 -0500
          Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-29 13:41 +0100
          Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2025-11-29 10:20 -0500
            Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-29 22:39 -0500
    Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-28 00:13 -0500

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