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Imagine you find an internet service that is useful to you. It's provided by a company in another country, but you find them trustworthy. There's a free option, but you consider buying a subscription. The price is significantly lower than e.g. Netflix or Spotify. You find the service is worth the money and you can afford it.
The question is: do you find it unprofessional / unfriendly / bad if the taxes are included in the price, or if they are excluded?
Example for "included": »1.23 § per month (includes 0.23 § taxes)«
Example for "excluded": »1.00 § per month (not including taxes)« or »1.00 § per month (not including 0.23 § taxes)«
Note: the question is only about the pricing page. The payment page lists without-tax, tax and with-tax amounts explicitly.
The answer probably depends on how pricing works in your area, so please answer accordingly.
As you are German (sorry if I'm mistaken), please provide a way to indicate VAT ID (Umsteuer-ID) and to be excluded from taxes. I.e., 1.23 € with taxes, but as soon as enter my European VAT ID, I get 1.00 €.
@menelion Of course! That's important to me as well.
Paddle (the company that takes care of checkout & world-wide taxes for me) have that feature in their checkout process. It works exactly like you describe.
@menelion Well my integration is not live yet, so it's a bit early to judge them. But so far, I'm happy based on the following:
- Their pricing¹ is fair. - Support staff responds reasonably quickly. - Business and domain verification went smoothly. - They cover over 220 countries & territories. They offer all the major payment methods & about a dozen local ones. - APIs are flexible enough for me² & work well. Their documentation is one of the best I've seen in my decades-long career. - They have been around for a loooong time & seem to know what they're doing.
I haven't heard such criticism. Regarding laws: at least for those of Germany, where I am based, there don't seem to be obvious problems because the lawyer who wrote my Terms of Service is happy with me using Paddle.
¹: I'm on a special "microtransactions" plan because my prices are all below 10$. ²: My product is a bit more complicated than the average due to the way extras can be added/removed to an active subscription.
If you like what we do about open source digital infrastructure at @sovtechfund, don't hesitate to tell your local representative about us. Our work is in the open, we share our experience and can't wait to see your country copy us.
Adriana Groh (CEO): "We also have an international focus: we try to provide a kind of blueprint to other governments to inspire them to take on the same mission as the German government."
This is probably one of the most fun live performances I've ever seen. Griff - Sound of Your Voice (Live from O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire: youtu.be/0JBX-Nq1kHA?si=lDRWXp…
Sound of Your Voice performed live from O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on 27th October 2021 on the One Foot In Front of The Other tour. Director - Andy Morganan E...
It feels weird posting about my Christmas tree when the world is falling apart around us. Having a real tree makes me so happy every year, though. The ornaments are coming out later tonight. Softening my personal sorrow as well. I like to pretend I’m a kid again at Christmas time.
I'll be honest, there are days where I wake up and I'm like "what are we even doing?" Every day I look at the headlines and a new war has broken out somewhere, or the president did or said something insane and clearly illegal, or whatever else. I have to constantly remind myself that no matter how bad things get, there will always be good people who care and want the best for you.
I once had something similar in a hotel fridge. Contact sensors would recognize each time you take a drink/snack from the fridge.
Of course, I wanted to cool my own stuff. Solution: press/trigger each sensor a dozen of times. Then use the fridge my own way. In the end, put the hotel stuff back in.
During checkout, the face of the clerk was falling apart. "I'm an engineer, I tested your fridge, but did not consume anything" left their mouth open, but it worked. No charge.
Domluvil jsem na leden prezentaci Fediverse a Mastodonu pro jednoho známého českého novináře, kterého tady zatím čteme přes zpravobot.news. Máte nějaké nápady, jak netechnicky orientovanému publicistovi, který ale názorově souzní s většinou uživatelů české Fediverse, nějak odprezentovat základy (nikoliv detaily) technického fungování, doporučit mu významné světové účty relevantní pro novináře a celkově nějak vyargumentovat, proč by nativní (nikoliv jen přemostěná) mohla dávat smysl?
nesnažil bych se mu prodat to, že je to decentralizované. To je implementační detail. Pokusil bych se nějak nastavit očekávání. Že tu úplně nemůže čekat obrovské publikum, spíš malou komunitu, ale se skutečnou lidskou interakcí a vztahy nezničenými dark pattern algoritmy.
@sesivany udělá to samé, co všichni, kterým to člověk zmíní bez dalších instrukcí: jde a založí si účet na mastodon.social. Kde žádné normální české účty ani moc nejsou...
@schmaker ukážu. i to, že ho tu čteme přes zpravobot...
Ale problém je, že z hlediska žurnalistiky se toho tady zas tak moc neděje. A oni se po zkušenosti s žumpou na Novinkách asi komentářů čtenářů spíš bojí.
Chtěl bych Fediverse prodat jako kultivovaného prostředí, kde vznikají komentáře k primárnímu obsahu, ale upřímně... je nás tady pět a půl a těch kvalitních komentářů tu nejsou zrovna tuny.
Spíš hledám způsob, jak v mainstreamu vůbec zviditelnit, že ještě pořád jsme to nevzdali, zlepšujeme to, ale nevíme, jak liberální mládeži vysvětlit, že by to mohlo být i víc cool, než Instagram
IMHO fedi není pro mainstream... Nic ti nedoporučuje koho sledovat. Když někoho najdeš tak se klidné může stát že s tvou instancí nefederuje. Když už federuje tak ti nic nezaručí že uvidíš vždy všechny zprávy. A když ti nějak záleží na tvém dosahu není způsob jak jej měřit protože nikdo netuší kam se tvé zprávy dostanou.
Moderace je věc instance - nácků rasistů, všelirůzných úchylů se tady taky najde dostatek.
@FoxVK @schmaker "tak ti nic nezaručí že uvidíš vždy všechny zprávy." Tohle je na mainstreamových platformách běžná věc a mainstreamový uživatel je s tím očividně v pohodě.
@schmaker Možná by stálo za to mu to prodat jako síť, kde může být Honzou Novákem, ne novinářem Seznamu/HN/Deníku N/... jako ho vnímají lidi třeba na X. Byli tu populární lidi z jiných platforem, kteří to tu díky menší komunitě vnímali jako bezpečný prostor.
@sesivany @schmaker přesně tak, pro profesionály je tu možnost bezpečně (v netoxickém prostředí) publikovat svoje témata,s tím že odkaz na novinářskou práci (článek) tu zafunguje v rámci nějakého širšího názorového postu nebo dlouhodobě budované důvěry. Lidi tu nepostujou, aby se udrželi v mechanismu algoritmu.
Druhá věc,co by mohla být motivační: může se stát inspirací pro další novináře a pořád vlastně průkopníkem něčeho co dává strategický smysl do budoucna (opozice vůči kontrole)
I've just read one more post about #segregation in the United States and I had a sudden thought: what would happen if, for example, I was in the States in the epoch of racial segregation and as a white person, just out of protest against racism, would go to places marked "for black people"? does history know such cases? Thanks. Disclaimers: I'm not trolling, I've never been to the US, only read various books about those times. And I do know that nothing good would wait a black person who tried to go to "white-only" places, we even had a text about it when I was learning English. but what if someone got tired of this cruel nonsense, someone white, I mean? Did such a phenomenon exist? #Unitedstates #USA #History
Bon je comptais pas le faire, mais vu que France travail me refuse le chômage et que le MDPH c'est la merde aussi..
Je cherche un poste de développeureuse backend / système. Globalement dans mes anciens tafs j'ai fait du go et python. J'ai un master dans le domaine, quelques projets et 3 ans d'expérience en alternance (dont deux en full remote).
Mon seul besoin c'est que ce soit du full remote. Donc si vous connaissez quelqu'un qui cherche ou quoi, pensez à moi svp 💜
Me and a family member are working on trying to replace the battery in my BrailleNote, the one with KeySoft 3.07. Does anyone have a copy of the original service manual PDF (bnser212.pdf) as opposed to the txt version? I have the txt version and we might be able to make it work but the PDF one has the pictures to show where the various connectors are on the board. Thanks! #tech #TechRepair #BrailleNote
Today’s instalment of ‘living in the future is actually pretty neat’:
When I was small, the first step in decorating a Christmas tree was sorting out the lights. Lights used incandescent bulbs, on a long string, wired in parallel. At least one would have blown in storage during the year, and you had to lay out the string, find the blown ones, and replace them (and then discover you’d run out of spare bulbs and needed to go to a shop). If you didn’t, the rest would get more current and would be more likely to blow. If enough blew, the others would get so hot (they were too hot to touch in normal operation anyway) that they would set fire to the tree and burn the house down.
Now, we have LED strips, which consume a fraction of the power, don’t burn out, and are not a fire risk. They also seem to not tangle as easily, but that’s probably unrelated.
- Apply filters to search results, bookmarks, and favourites - Display account pronouns - #quoteposts
## Fixes
- Make "Load newest notifications" work - Load images from sites using LetsEncrypt certificates on older devices - Show emojis in author names in bylines - Translate boosted posts correctly - Improve display of error causes - Show display names with some RTL characters correctly
Pachli 3.2.0 is now available. This release applies your filters to search results, bookmarks, and favourites (if your server supports this), shows account pronouns throughout the UI, and supports Mastodon’s new “quote post” feature.
I don't know what's better -- Monero users not running their own nodes which makes them identifiable, or this blog post being a victim of Markdown Hell and every numbered point being "1." because they had the audacity of putting bullet points between the numbered points
The fact that conservative Americans seem not to know the basic fact that our number system is based on Arabic numerals and think that Zohran is going to indoctrinate their kids with some "Muslim nonsense" is really a screaming indictment of our education system, isn't it?
It is, but it's also pretty funny. (speaking as someone living outside of the US). then again, I wonder how many people in my country know that the numbers we use every day are called Arabic?
@VE3RWJ That's a good thought. i remember it personally because in first grade I was taught about roman numerals, and then we talked about why we use the Arabic ones instead. This is 100% Zohran trolling the right, and it is absolutely working.
It seems #mixxx has very limited conditional logic when dealing with variables/toggles in the UI/skin. It is quite hard to get exclusions to work, especially when you are actually in need of a tri-state
I have a 4 decks option, but not the way I wanted it... and for now is a separate branch.
«in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.»
Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok boasted that the billionaire had the "potential to drink piss better than any human in history," among other absurd claims.
Používám GrapheneOS už několik let a je super vidět, jak komunita pořád roste. Mám proto otázku na ostatní: Jak řešíte profily a Google služby?
– jedete jeden hlavní profil + sandboxed Google Play, – používáte více profilů (např. hlavní bez Googlu, druhý pro appky), – spoléháte na Private Spaces (soukromé prostory), – nebo jste úplně bez Googlu a stačí vám Aurora Store?
Vyzkoušel jsem všechny varianty, ale zajímají mě vaše reálné zkušenosti. Co vám dlouhodobě funguje nejlíp? Já se přiznám, že jedu jeden hlavní profil se sandboxed Google Play. Důvod je jednoduchý: – v práci mi volají přes WhatsApp, – jedna pracovní appka přes Auroru nefungovala, – a několikrát denně používám navigaci v autě.
Přepínání profilů mě po čase prostě přestalo bavit.
Asi ta první varianta - hlavní profil se sandboxovaným Googlem.
Více profilů jsem zkoušel, ale pro mne to nedává valného smyslu - pro kalendáře stejně potřebuji mít všechny relevantní profily pohromadě a vytvářet v nich události. Dále, lidé mi volají a píší přes všechny možné messengery, a i když člověk občas zkouší je dostat na svoji stranu, ne vždy to jde :/ a přepínat se kvůli nim je strašně o hubu.
Plus, mám u Googlu nakoupených pár aplikací, na které jsem zvyklý (a včera jsem ještě jednu přidal), takže toho Google Play se jen tak nezbavím. 😄
Ta bezpečnostní vylepšení mi stojí za to, že to zůstává v tom hlavním profilu.
@warzazel I use sandboxed google play exclusively for bank and Garmin connect, all other app are on my personal profile, I do not like Viber, but it is necessary because of my work. all other app are FOSS, and the social network is #mastodon and #matrix #grapheneos
@mrakmm Same here — I only use sandboxed Google Play for the apps I need for work, plus Garmin, Strava and my bank app. Everything else is pure FOSS apps. @warzazel
více profilů + v každém z nich privat space. (Owner mam uplně čistý kromě molly+unified push)
druhý profil je daily driver/soukromý kde jsou jen FOSS aplikace (kromě vpn, a správce hesel které jsem prvotně doinstaloval přes auroru ale s aurorou jsem je jen nainstaloval updatuju je přes třetí profil, kde mam throaway sandboxed google + spyware apky jako whatsapp nebo banku a věci co vyžadují google push / v private spacu školní věci jaky spyware365 nebo teamsy tam sandboxed google space nepotřebuju)
+separátní profil na …… V kazdém profilu/privat spacu jiná vpn/tor tj jiná IP adresa
@tyrkysovapanda Tak koukám, že jsem byl za ta léta břídil a to jsem i nosil jeden čas dva telefony. Jako jo, já to chápu. Jen mě už nějak otravovalo to přepínání.
@tyrkysovapanda Já mám GrapheneOs od pixelu 2xl už jsem toho vyzkoušel fakt hodně. Ono nejhorší, že potřebuji pár aplikací do práce. Každopádně díky za informace 👍👍
Mám takový mix: Jeden telefon čistě soukromý pro příbuzné. Mimo Google s F-droid FOSS aplikacemi. Druhý telefon s privátním Google účtem, kde mám také banky a platební karty + stahuji si tam nějaké pracovní e-maily. Třetí telefon čistě pracovní, kde je WhatsApp a všechny pracovní věci. Něco pod Google Play, zbytek F-droid a Aurora.
Takže docela paranoidní režim se třemi telefony + tablet a dva ntb s linuxem a jeden Widloidní. Domácí NUC NAS už raději nepočítám 🙂
Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!
This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.
Here is a picture taken this morning showing off how snowy it is around here. I am putting the description in the actual post, as I think it is too big for the image description part.
The image shows a quiet residential area blanketed by a fresh layer of snow, creating a calm and wintry atmosphere. The landscape is primarily white, as the snow covers the road, rooftops, and yards in a thick, undisturbed layer. The overcast sky is a pale, uniform gray, indicating continued cloudy weather, adding a subdued tone to the scene.
On both sides of the road are mobile homes, each painted in various muted colors like white, gray, and pale yellow. The homes have small front porches or steps leading up to their entrances, some of which are partially buried in snow. A few homes have lights on inside, casting a warm yellow glow through the windows that contrasts with the cold outdoor environment. Small trees and bushes surround some of the homes, their branches heavy with freshly settled snow.
A single light gray Jeep is parked on the left side of the image near a home, with a light dusting of snow on its roof, windshield, and hood. Tire marks and footprints are visible in the snow-covered street, leading away from the direction of the camera, showing that someone has already walked and driven on this quiet path recently. These tracks carve through the smooth surface of the snow, suggesting minimal traffic and a peaceful, early moment after the snowfall.
In the background, a red stop sign stands out vividly against the snow near the center right, placed at a street intersection within the mobile home park. The visibility of the stop sign and its bright color provides a striking contrast to the monotonous whiteness of the rest of the area. Spruce and bare-branched trees can also be seen further back, some leaning slightly and covered in a delicate coating of snow.
Overall, the image captures a serene and picturesque winter morning in a modest neighborhood. The footprints and vehicle tracks hint at the beginning of daily routines in a community gently waking up amidst a snowy landscape. The quiet stillness suggests the snow may have only recently stopped falling, leaving everything wrapped in a pristine, soft layer.
@FreakyFwoof yeah, I personally don't want that much snow this early. much closer to actual christmas and I would be ok with it, but right now? nope. lol. it still makes for a nice picture though.
@ke7zum @FreakyFwoof I only go outside when I have to when it is like this. my ballence is nothing like it used to be, plus my arthritis gets mad when it is cold, and I know that tonight we are going down to 14F, -10C for a low, which means standing outside waiting for the boys bus is really going to suck!
@ke7zum Curious, is there a reason you stand and wait for them, when they know where the house is because they're not blind? Genuine question, not trying to be a troll.
@ke7zum You said standing outside and waiting for their bus to get in, but... They know how to do that by now, no? And it's not too far from home if I remember, as I'm pretty sure I heard a recording of you leaving your house and going to where the bus comes. Isn't it a 30-second walk from door to outside?
@FreakyFwoof @ke7zum I am going to try to answer what I think you are asking. if I am wrong, please clairify. normally here you take your kids down to where the office is, and that is where the bus picks up the kids. with may and I both being totally blind, plus at least one of our boys having ADHD, it makes it really hard for us to try to keep them under control, and hear where things are that we need to hear, so there bus actually stops right across the street from our trailor, for us only. so when I say we wait for them, we are waiting for them to get to across from our trailor. they don't show up the same exact time every day, so we go out a few minutes early just in case.
@ke7zum No no, that makes total sense, and that's what I was wondering. In this cold, I thought if you could stand in the doorway and save yourself a bad fall and less pain, it would be worthwhile, but with ADHD being what it is, you do kinda have to be there.
If you are one of those transphobic motherfuckers who won't use someone's correct pronouns, you do NOT fucking get to say you are "in a relationship" with a chatbot.
You won't acknowledge the humanity of a trans woman, but you will build an emotional connection with a computer simulation you assigned a gender to?
#RunBSD #BSD #AnalogNowhere
André Polykanine
in reply to Jens Bannmann • • •Jens Bannmann
in reply to André Polykanine • • •@menelion
Of course! That's important to me as well.
Paddle (the company that takes care of checkout & world-wide taxes for me) have that feature in their checkout process. It works exactly like you describe.
Thanks for your input!
André Polykanine
in reply to Jens Bannmann • • •Jens Bannmann
in reply to André Polykanine • • •@menelion
Well my integration is not live yet, so it's a bit early to judge them. But so far, I'm happy based on the following:
- Their pricing¹ is fair.
- Support staff responds reasonably quickly.
- Business and domain verification went smoothly.
- They cover over 220 countries & territories. They offer all the major payment methods & about a dozen local ones.
- APIs are flexible enough for me² & work well. Their documentation is one of the best I've seen in my decades-long career.
- They have been around for a loooong time & seem to know what they're doing.
I haven't heard such criticism. Regarding laws: at least for those of Germany, where I am based, there don't seem to be obvious problems because the lawyer who wrote my Terms of Service is happy with me using Paddle.
¹: I'm on a special "microtransactions" plan because my prices are all below 10$.
²: My product is a bit more complicated than the average due to the way extras can be added/removed to an active subscription.