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  • Issue is that I need a Paypal account, for which I need a phone number and bank account from the same country. I have Canadian bank stuff, but no Canadian phone number.

    I’m in Lebanon

    That won’t go well for you long term, Paypal will eventually catch on and permaban you. You’ll also lose whatever funds were in the account during that time.

    If you still go through with it I suspect you’ll need to figure out how to buy a non-virtual phone number, just seems like a waste of time since Paypal will eventually add it to their permaban/fraud database.




  • It’s basically what others mentioned - the code can be a long string you can enter, but usually it’s a QR image representing the code itself (I’m sure Mailchimp is going to give you a QR image when you set it up).

    Most people use a TOTP authenticator app on their phone to take a picture of that QR image & load it into their app. Once the code is generated it does not change so in theory you should be able to share that code or QR image amongst yourselves & load it into your own apps. No data/mobile connection or SMS/email required unless you’re using a specific TOTP app that needs that.

    On Android I’ve used andOTP and Google Authenticator apps with good results but there are plenty of other TOTP authenticator apps if you look around.

    PS - In terms of sharing it, just share the picture of the QR code with whatever screen/image capture tool you like to use. Just keep in mind you don’t want to keep the QR image laying around online, the whole point is to secure your Mailchimp account after all.


  • I think Mailchimp just expects each person to have their own account there, each with their own 2FA authentication. Guessing that’s not quite the answer you want :)

    Just took a look at my work’s Mailchimp and we seem to have authenticator and SMS authentication available. Can’t you just set yours to authenticator and share the code amongst yourselves? That seems easiest in your situation unless you also ruled that out.

    My Mailchimp account also has email authentication but that may be because it’s an older account, I don’t see it as an option when I look in the Security options right now. But it’s worth checking if yours has that as an option, then just set that email to a shared email and/or auto forward that incoming email to others.

    Or worst case - Not sure if feasible but maybe a shared google voice account? Services like Google voice can do sms to email so all the incoming texts can come into the email and then you can auto forward or do whatever from there.



  • I was given a dunkin giftcard

    Dunkin gift cards expire? That’s news to me, it’s been a while since I’ve encountered expiring gift cards. Not sure that’s even legal but maybe they expire in your particular state?

    To answer your main question I buy gift cards with discounts/cash back all the time. It basically makes them cheaper than using cash. For example my credit card has 5% cash back for grocery stores so that gives me 5% cash back on gift cards purchased there.

    Also a lot of credit card and stores do gift card sales where they’ll do 10%-20% discount, or throw in a free gift card with a purchase.








  • Video editing / post production is the type of work that you need to have contacts in the industry to really get by. So you’d still apply to job postings but after a while the different production crews working on projects will have your info & can book you on future gigs when things go well.

    I am not in that field but have a few friends/family doing it. Traditionally the majority of those type of jobs tend to be in the NYC area or southern California. I know people use Mandy to look for those type of jobs but I’m not too up to date on other places. That yt site you mentioned seems a bit hacky, maybe designed to attract beginner youtube influencer types.



  • I rarely block people. I find it better just to leave Lemmy communities with problematic/annoying users… lemmy.world communities are the worst in that sense.

    e.g. it might be me commenting in a non-political community about something random and then people jumping in and politicizing the thread and/or anything I wrote there. If I wanted to talk politics I’d join a politics sub, dealing with people that turn each and every post into something political gets old fast. And if the community moderators aren’t interested in moderating that shit then what’s the point sticking around in that community? So rather than block people I just leave those communities entirely & move on.



  • For me it was fine, maybe about 15 years ago. Small startup company I was at ran out of funding, we got something like 1-2 months severance. We all got along fine so it wasn’t like everyone hated the job or the owners, sometimes startup companies just don’t make it through those first few years.

    Summer is probably the best time to be unemployed, spent a lot of time exploring my neighborhood during the weekday afternoons and was practicing making cold brew & other summer drinks LOL.

    Was doing freelance work while being on unemployment / looking for a new steady job. Think it was about 4-5 months before I landed a new job (did get 1-2 job offers during that time but was maybe being a bit picky & turned them down).

    … Also helps that I keep savings so short term unemployment won’t wreck me. I’ve seen posts about people being out of work for years, that would be a far worse scenario.