Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are cards worse?
You need special equipment to accept cards.
Did they not have the equipment?
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Re: DoChat – a Dockerized WeChat PC Windows client for Linux
#62I went back to China for a month in December 2019. It's crazy how Wechat payment is now used everywhere. Any shops in China (I believe 99% of them): in wechat, you have "wallet" that generates QR code. Go to any shop, at the counter, show the QR code generated, they have the machine (or wechat app) to scan it. done. Crazy efficient. Most of the people there don't bring wallets anymore. Most of the restaurants in Shen…
That sounds pretty scary,what a price to pay. Let's say you're blacklisted for something, that's it, you can't buy anything or get any services from anywhere. You can't even beg for money! I hope I never have to see that in my lifetime,a very rare thing where I would prefer wars before it came to this.
That's exactly what's happening:
- https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/939q35/heres-how-chin... - https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20976964/chinese-america...
Re: DoChat – a Dockerized WeChat PC Windows client for Linux
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been to Chengdu and Shenzhen in 2017. People were sometimes sighing and rolling their eyes when I tried to pay with cash. Even worse with cards.
Why are cards worse?
First, it takes time. Second, western cards (especially debit) are not always accepted in China.
Re: DoChat – a Dockerized WeChat PC Windows client for Linux
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Same in the UK, you get at least £30 from your contactless card/Apple/Android pay. Some shops do more, an increasing large number allow a larger limit. However some large shops (Tesco) only allow large limits on their own payment apps, rather than Apple/android pay, forcing you to use your card and pin!
The £30 limit does not apply to mobile payments. There's no limit for those. I've successfully made 2k£ transactions with Apple Pay.
It depends on the merchant and they're apple/android pay enabled or not.
Regular contactless limits are 30, otherwise the limit is much higher.
My highest was ~£1200 at an apple store, and I had paid a 500 deposit on a car, but it refused the 8K balance. So there is a limit somewhere between your 2K and my 8K attempts on apple pay ;)
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Do people have to pay transaction fees for using their bank cards in the US? At least over here in .nl there are none of these fees (as a consumer) and we have free NFC payments with your regular bank cards or Apple Pay etc.
EU caps the transaction fee of banks to like 1%. (which is paid by the seller). NL is a bit of a special cookie here, companies in NL don't like paying 1% transaction fees, so most companies only accept MAESTRO. Because Maestro has lower tx fees. Every time I visit I can't pay for anything with my VISA or Mastercard. It's rather frustrating.
Put Germany on the same cookie jar, while it has largely improved since I arrived here, plenty of restaurants are still only accepting cash payments.
This was really strange to me, being used to pay with debit card almost everything in Portugal.
Re: DoChat – a Dockerized WeChat PC Windows client for Linux
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
EU caps the transaction fee of banks to like 1%. (which is paid by the seller). NL is a bit of a special cookie here, companies in NL don't like paying 1% transaction fees, so most companies only accept MAESTRO. Because Maestro has lower tx fees. Every time I visit I can't pay for anything with my VISA or Mastercard. It's rather frustrating.
Put Germany on the same cookie jar, while it has largely improved since I arrived here, plenty of restaurants are still only accepting cash payments. This was really strange to me, being used to pay with debit card almost everything in Portugal.
In Germany I thought it was due to being privacy conscious?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Put Germany on the same cookie jar, while it has largely improved since I arrived here, plenty of restaurants are still only accepting cash payments. This was really strange to me, being used to pay with debit card almost everything in Portugal.
In Germany I thought it was due to being privacy conscious?
On the contrary, it is due to the operating taxes.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, there are plenty of ways to communicate with younger people. But I am talking about, for instance, my grandpa. Many people in China (including my family) aren't so "cosmopolitan" and only use WeChat
I know this probably sounds ridiculous to some, but you could also use the phone to make a phone call.
How do you send a picture by phone?
Re: DoChat – a Dockerized WeChat PC Windows client for Linux
#69Nice work! I can't make it switch DPI though, on HiDPI screen it looks miniscule.
I'd like to add the DPI setting to the project. Cloud you please to file an issue for recording this feature request?
Re: DoChat – a Dockerized WeChat PC Windows client for Linux
#70the novelty of volume mounting the /tmp/.X11-unix to get an actual ui is neat in itself. nice work
Did they mount /dev/shm as well? Otherwise I’m kind of surprised that works.
Currently the project has to use the `--ipc=host` for running the docker.
Can we get rid of the `--ipc=host` by adding a `/dev/shm` mounting?