Most of the stores I interact with accept it -as long as it passes a bill checker- but they take a commission -usually 4$- on it.
I don't think they'd take it at all if there was a risk to lose 96$ on it.
People who have access to a fresh dollar bank account[0] have the ability to deposit the old bill and then try to withdraw it again in hope of getting a new bill.
A couple of services spun up that take lower commission for bulk conversions e.g. 2$ instead of 4$ for each 100$.
Is there another appliance that I can test to see if that's the issue? I don't have an oscilloscope.
Edit: I just tested powering it from a UPS: It's flickering more now and when it show the correct content it stays for a second more then when powering from the ecoflow.
I just tested moving the ecoflow to another room (both door closed ~5m between the ecloflow and the monitor) and used an extension cable to power the monitor.
The issue is still happening.
Unfortunately I don't have a different HDMI cable at hand now. I'll test another cable as soon as I get my hands on one.
A bit off topic: I'm facing an issue where a monitor works only when getting power (220v 60hz) from an outlet but not from an external power generator: ecoflow river pro (220v 60hz) as well.
It's the only appliance that doesn't work. It turns on normally but stays black (I use it in mirror mode).
Every hour or so it may show the correct content for a glance then it'll turn black.
I suspect the power supply source is not the real reason, maybe there's something causing interference with the cable?
I'm waiting to have a free weekend to check it out.
When I get a chance, I try to dig into the "magic" parts of the tools I'm using.
I've wrote a bit on this on my blog in the context of creating a (nano) web framework similar to Rails [1]
and a (nano) http client library similar to requests [2].
I find this to help assure me that if I have to go one layer deep in abstraction I'd still be able to learn how it works.
Getting locked out of Google is a legit risk that I have: I'll loose most of my personal & professional data because of it: Emails (Gmail), Files & Photos (Drive), Contacts, Calendar...
Google already offer a way to download backups from
Google Takeout. But this isn't enough because:
1- I have to remember to download an up-to-date backup myself.
2- I have to store the backup somewhere.
3- Retrieving the data is cumbersome: e.g. if I need to access my emails after a lock down I'll have to first get a recent backup that I stored somewhere then try to find a program that work on my machine that'll read the email format then import it.
This approach is open to flaws that is why I'm working on the side on a product that address these pain-points: you'll be able to automatically get backups to the service servers and it'll do all the parsing so that you can have a similar services UI (read-only) to the ones from Google.
Congrats on the release! I was following up the development progress on GitHub.
I'm pretty excited about "Plugin Interface".
I think we can this refactor effort as a success story: simpler code + improved performance + more testing.
> Launch a competing product that accomplishes the same thing.
Disclaimer: I was part of hCaptcha team.
https://hcaptcha.com/ is competing with ReCaptcha. It's a drop-in replacement for ReCaptcha.
It's privacy focused (supports privacy pass), and is fair: webmasters get a cut for each captcha that is solved correctly (they can choose to directly donate it to a charity of their choice), hCaptcha get a cut for running the service and a customer will get their images/data labeled.
It's privacy focused (supports privacy pass), and is fair: webmasters get a cut for each captcha that is solved correctly (they can choose to directly donate it to a charity of their choice), hCaptcha get a cut for running the service and a customer will get their images/data labeled.