photon, 4 months ago

@ljrk the same thing happened to me a few days ago. I thought it was due to problem with my credit card.

ljrk, 4 months ago

@photon I suspect that too, possibly because of the diff b/w my legal name and my chosen name. Will try again with the former and using my old address...

ljrk, 4 months ago

@photon Update: Seems to be unrelated

buffet, 4 months ago

@ljrk gave them a couple calls a while ago; befriended their support in the process

apparently that form is just constantly broken and they don't care

ljrk, 4 months ago

@buffet Lol, sounds like a surprisingly pleasant experience. Could the support help you though? :'D

buffet, 4 months ago

@ljrk not really, The Strat seems to be to just try periodically and it will work eventually™ (i still don't have an account)

ljrk, 4 months ago

@buffet big oof. Probably their high availability cluster is just currently not available or sth

ljrk, 4 months ago

@buffet Hm, I get a lot of CORS errors in the console, even when disabling uBlock, strict tracking protection and such... geez. Probably I need to fire IE10 or sth.

buffet, 4 months ago

@ljrk lmk if you manage to make it work somehow

ljrk, 4 months ago

@buffet o7

buffet, 25 days ago

@ljrk a friend just got it to work
what they learned:

• their bank-bank credit card and revolut didn't work but trade republic did
• they had to enter their full name, including their second name (has to match the credit card)
• if you do something wrong you get some sort of timeout, so it's not worth trying again

ljrk, 25 days ago

@buffet OMG, now it did work (same card). I made sure it was the same name (incl. second name) and took care to enter everything correctly on first try. Also, I used Chrome just for this and no FF...

buffet, 25 days ago

@ljrk got to touch my computer and it just works

actually feels weird after i tried it so many times in the past^^

ljrk, 25 days ago

@buffet Now I just need to get an instance allocated. R/n it says that there's none available? o.O

buffet, 25 days ago

@ljrk huh? i got one, but decided to change something and terminated it because i assumed that would be the easiest, but apparently you don't get the resources back immediately

i'll try again tomorrow

ljrk, 24 days ago

@buffet Yeah, rather weird, said that all in the Frankfurt were booked. I clicked the ARM instance tho.

leah, 4 months ago

@ljrk Solved: go somewhere else ;)

ljrk, 4 months ago

@leah But free ARM servers with 24Gig :~

leah, 4 months ago

@ljrk it's not free, you're paying with your soul.

ljrk, 4 months ago

@leah What soul? :'D

I actually planned to run some CoreOS/Flatcar on it but just thought of running some Illumos arm64 distro on it for complete sacrilege!

ljrk, 4 months ago

@leah sips from my Obstacle cup

https://www.zazzle.de/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_mug?tdid=b3af7754-7e9c-45a1-b23c-54f3d423782d

leah, 4 months ago

@ljrk I didn't have much success running Illumos virtualized, but it was a few years ago...

ljrk, 4 months ago

@leah Yeah, it's mostly used as a virtualizer itself by now, but I had some fun back then hacking on some open solaris code base (i11n), I long for something to tinker with :D

daswarkeinhuhn, 4 months ago

@ljrk You have to forgive them - they're just not that well versed in internet things and technology and stuff

ljrk, 4 months ago

@daswarkeinhuhn That's true, they mostly know "number goes up" and "what company do we buy and shred next?"

daswarkeinhuhn, 4 months ago

@ljrk ❤️ just ❤️ the ❤️ capitalism ❤️ things ❤️

ljrk, 4 months ago

@daswarkeinhuhn Jup, I still need this shirt (I already got the mug):

https://www.zazzle.de/datenbank_11g_blockieren_polo_shirt-235084591709986041