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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"
I'll never understand this, but I see it all the time. People should have shared money, and they should also have their own money. Does my wife like it when I buy myself expensive toys? I have no idea, it's irrelevant unless I stop covering the bills.
Bills. And retirement savings. And college savings for the kids. Oh yeah, saving for the new stove.
I give myself $50/mo to spend on whatever I want. Anything else I mention it to my wife. Oh, and if it takes space in the house I mention it too.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#473Earlier quoted context omitted.
But why would you do that? I mean if that's you money, why would you ask your partner? I'm pretty frugal, don't spend on stupid things easily (well, things that I find stupid, at least), but if I had a business idea or even a fun project I don't think I'd need permission from my partner to spend my own money on it. Discussing it is a different story, of course.
I think it's pretty common that when people get married it becomes our money instead of my and your money.
And we can buy emoji domain names.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for me. (I suspect the details of this vary between system versions, and they certainly depend on settings chosen in System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts.)
It's the standard behavior. If you do something to modify or override it of course it won't work, but that's like changing the keyboard to Dvorak and saying that pressing the g key gives an i instead so you can't count on getting a g when you press the g key.
It's standard for Cocoa-based apps, I think, but it doesn't appear among the system-wide shortcuts in System Preferences on my Big Sur system, at least. The only shortcuts offered under Input Sources there are to select the previous or next input source (which are set to Cmd-Space, Cmd-Opt-Space).
A command to open the Emoji & Symbols palette is generally at the end of each application's Edit menu, and that's where its shortcut appears. But in current Firefox the item in the Edit menu shows the shortcut as Cmd-Space (not Cmd-Ctl-Space), and it doesn't work for me because the system-wide shortcut takes precedence.
If I disable that shortcut in System Preferences (which may well be the default, particularly if multiple input methods are not enabled), then Cmd-Space does work in Firefox to bring up the Emoji palette -- but note that it's not the standard Cmd-Ctl-Space combination.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#475Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for me. (I suspect the details of this vary between system versions, and they certainly depend on settings chosen in System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts.)
Works fine for me in latest Firefox. I've never had it not work in a specific app. Though, sometimes the keyboard crashes and doesn't come back up until a restart (that could be the fault of my Ryzen Hackintosh, though).
What exactly works in Firefox -- is it Command-Control-Space or just Command-Space?
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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Yeah. Try using wildcard email accounts together with a uncommon TLD, and people ask me if I work at their place all the time. Last time I booked a car at Hertz: > Me: My email is hertz@capableweb.work > Agent: Woah, you work here at Hertz? That's so cool > Me: sure, can you remind me of the employee discount again? So many email validations fail with a uncommon gTLD that I started switching everything to a .com doma…
Be careful using illegitimate car rental codes. Sometimes they look so cheap because they cancel a lot of your insurances, because your employer carries those insurances itself. So if you crash or the car is damaged, the clerk says, “Don’t worry Hertz Corporate will pick that up” but of course when they discover you are not an employee they will not.
No one wants car rental insurance anyway.
Especially not Hertz, who doesn't honor claims anyway and is thankfully bankrupt.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. Try using wildcard email accounts together with a uncommon TLD, and people ask me if I work at their place all the time. Last time I booked a car at Hertz: > Me: My email is hertz@capableweb.work > Agent: Woah, you work here at Hertz? That's so cool > Me: sure, can you remind me of the employee discount again? So many email validations fail with a uncommon gTLD that I started switching everything to a .com doma…
From doing agency/marketing work for numerous large corps, I can tell you that many have a straight up block on corpname on any email name or domain to prevent phishing.
I've never seen that and I have dozens of company@me.example emails signed up.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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Germany is a bit over the top in this regard. When abbreviating a name to two letters (like as an avatar or as a short form for a newspaper author name) we usually specifically avoid KZ, HJ, NS, SA, SS. You also can't get those in a license plate. There must be some demographic which cares. I've personally only seen people amused by it.
Could you please explain HJ, NS and SA?
HJ = Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth)
SA = Sturmabteilung (NSDAP paramilitary org)
NS = idk, probably NatSoc / National Socialist
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#479Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#480I would recommend advertising that at https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/ the people there are f'ing addicted to the rocktes emoji and dont care how much to pay to have it appear somewhere
I was actually just thinking that he should probably register the [diamond][hands].kk domain, there's got to be some demand for it given how much it gets spammed over there.
way ahead of you... OP was right, it was a pain to use that registrar.