Thanks to all the fine and selfless people who worked to get the new version of TDE out. I've been niggling at it for months, by running the almost-release version and upgrading every couple of days. Great work, everybody!
I tried to donate to TDE last night and discovered that for some reason I cannot send money directly via PayPal for . . . reasons. I hope it gets sorted out at TDE so I can send some money. Not a lot, but more than nothing.
On 2025-08-10 04:49:49 dep via tde-users wrote:
Thanks to all the fine and selfless people who worked to get the new version of TDE out. I've been niggling at it for months, by running the almost-release version and upgrading every couple of days. Great work, everybody!
I tried to donate to TDE last night and discovered that for some reason I cannot send money directly via PayPal for . . . reasons. I hope it gets sorted out at TDE so I can send some money. Not a lot, but more than nothing.
PayPal continues to become more and more an impediment to making online payments; it's almost to the point where it's unusable. I avoid it whenever I can, but there are still a lot of sites that don't provide any alternative methods. :-(
Leslie
said J Leslie Turriff via tde-users:
| PayPal continues to become more and more an impediment to making online | payments; it's almost to the point where it's unusable. I avoid it | whenever I can, but there are still a lot of sites that don't provide | any alternative methods. :-(
The reason I didn't use PayPal to donate to TDE is that the TDE donation page says not to. I haven't had any trouble with it otherwise, and it has saved me from unscrupulous vendors several times, including a substantial item purchased from Walmart who, like so many nowadays, routes its customer "service" through a boiler room in India. They jerked me around for weeks. I complained to PayPal and had my refund in half an hour.
On 8/11/25 03:48, dep via tde-users wrote:
said J Leslie Turriff via tde-users:
| PayPal continues to become more and more an impediment to making online | payments; it's almost to the point where it's unusable. I avoid it | whenever I can, but there are still a lot of sites that don't provide | any alternative methods. :-(
The reason I didn't use PayPal to donate to TDE is that the TDE donation page says not to. I haven't had any trouble with it otherwise, and it has saved me from unscrupulous vendors several times, including a substantial item purchased from Walmart who, like so many nowadays, routes its customer "service" through a boiler room in India. They jerked me around for weeks. I complained to PayPal and had my refund in half an hour.
I'd say that was unusual, my experience has been somewhat less than stellar. I sold something on fleabay a decade+ back and never rx'd the money. Big deal, less than $20, did not affect the length of my ladder up the side of the pig. Another time they refused to connect me with the vender to complete the deal for 4 damned days because I was 2000 miles from my home machine & trying to use a winblows box, costing that tv station about $10k/day in lost revenue because the whole commercial player it was built around needed a $50 scsi card. I was at the time doing consulting broadcast engineering, making use of my CET certificate. Now I'm 90 and really retired. But I'm still lurking.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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