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There are plenty of companies in Brazil that offer PIX payments to foreign e-shops. Valve has been accepting PIX for some time now, for example.


Can you suggest some?


Many banks and Fintechs here offer this, the trick is that you need to open a local office, so you have a Brazilian subsidiary with a CNPJ number in order to open a bank account and receive the money.


Pix is free for natural persons and individual entrepreneurs. For businesses, receiving is free, but they pay a fee to send money[0], this can vary from one institution to another.

[0] https://www.contabilizei.com.br/contabilizei-responde/taxa-p...


Some languages do it way more frequently. Take my native Portuguese. Brazil had 3 ortographic reforms in the 20th century, while Portugal had 5 in the same period, all before the "Ortographic Accord" of 1990, that unified ortography in both countries.


It's such a versatile product. I bet everyone here who's older than 45/50 have at least once used a Bic pen to rewind a cassete tape.

I also used the plastic clip as a stapler remover.

There were many other uses for it, for sure.


The clip is also a superb stress-reliever by biting it :-)


Never tried myself but I know they were used to defeat older U locks for bikes.


For that job you needed one of the opaque round ones with a more flexible plastic. It had to friction fit over the centre of the keyway so it could deliver some torque as you were working the tumblers.


I'm not that older, but I had learned this trick, mainly when the device goes wrong and we need to fix the tape :)


cassettes were still popular 20y ago, you can probably take 15y off your estimate!


At least in my area, cassettes were still popular 30 years ago during the transition to CDs, but by 20 years ago we were in the midst of the transition from CD to iPod. I don't remember seeing new tapes for sale anywhere after about 2000, and we were definitely burning CDs full of MP3s before then instead of making mixtapes. Personally, I bought my last cassette around 1995. Your point still stands, however...I think cutting 10-15y off the estimate would be reasonable.


In my own case CD's, MP3 and cassette use have overlapped. MP3 players were expensive, Discmans were too big to fit in a small pocket. So walkmans were still useful. I used to record tunes and mixes from the radio at the time too as it was super quick to hit record on the ghettoblaster when listening to the radio provided you had a tape ready. So yes I was still using and listening to cassettes in the early 2000's.


as 32 year old, I can confirm I used BIC pen (or similarly shaped pencils) to rewinds tapes.


I always just used a pencil.


I usually had neither on me when needed, so I just used my pinkie.


That's good for small rewinds, but with a Bic pen, you can rewind the whole tape as fast (maybe even faster than some) ad a tape deck. Just slide the pen in the spool and start spinning the cassete.

Like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8v9Ijp1So


That worked too, was just a bit more uncomfortable.


That's because WSL2 implements an X11 client and sets the DISPLAY variable. X11 network transparency does the rest. You can do the same on Linux, as long as you're to learn how X11 arcane permission system works.


The current architecture is wayland based, with weston and an RDP backend, and the Windows host running an RDP client. X11 apps run on Xwayland within WSL2, so ultimately rendered on the same RDP client.


Windows implements and X11 _server_ (the client in X11 jargon is the app, which if remote works on a remote server - yeah it's confusing. You can have the X11 server on a thin client showing data from an X11 client running on a remote server). They also added Wayland support, too.


`xhost +`

Problem solved


For corpos, I attribute it to BOTH. They're malicious AND stupid.


More like a documentary of the last eight.


The last two felt more like Weekend at Bernie's.


Brazilian punk rock band Garotos Podres (Rotten Kids) recorded a song called "Papai Noel Filho da P#*&@" (Santa Claus Son of a B&#£¢). It's an Anarcho-Socialist anthem that exposes how Santa is a "capitalist pig" that "rejects the poor", "gifts the rich and spits in the poor" (quotes from the song).

Slightly changed radio lyrics: https://www.letras.mus.br/garotos-podres/46145/


A large enough telescope in space, with a coronagraph could, in teory, find such planets by direct imaging. Right now, I believe only JWST fits the bill, but using it for this purpose would interfere with other types of research, so the coronagraph us used only only to observe planets the wer already discovered by other methods.


I’m pretty sure that new telescope being constructed in Chile will be large enough to directly image planets but I could be wrong.



Taiwanese law forbids TSMC manufacturing chips abroad using their latest process, so no 2nm in the US fabs,this leaves Intel's 18A as the mist advanced one in US soil.


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