One strange thing (to me) about Indonesian ID cards is that they have a compulsory field "Religion" where one must choose one of six possible religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. If one is without religion or follows another religion he must still pick one of those 6.
Another strange thing (to me) is the complex dependency between institutions. In order to be able to apply for various things like documents, benefits, scholarship, school admission etc. one needs approval from head of family then head of the village, then letter from the police and so on. Be on bad terms with any of these (individuals) and some government services are unavailable to you. I heard a story from and Indonesian about how he could not go to university because the head of the village didn't want to give him the letter that he needed to apply to university.
Also marriage between members of different religions is not possible. So one person must convert to the other's religion before they can be married.
> "Religion" where one must choose one of six possible religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. If one is without religion or follows another religion he must still pick one of those 6.
It always felt, to me, like the Dutch colonizers culturally transferred their concept of pillarisation[1] to Indonesian society.
The reason why religion is probably Mandatory(tm) is because Indonesia is an islamic country. You see similar behavior in other islamic countries in the middle east and their documents.
> Also marriage between members of different religions is not possible.
You can. But it's hard. So basically the main requirement of marriage is it must be performed in a religious ceremony. You cannot have a pure civil marriage in Indonesia. So the thing is.... the clerics, the priests are not fond of mixed-marriages. But there are marriages between Buddhist and Catholic, Christian and Catholic, Muslim and Christian. I'm an Indonesian.
Also, there is a loop-hole. You get married overseas and register it in an Indonesian embassy.
I believe the reason why Indonesia does not list atheism in government forms is because in most Shariah influenced jurisdictions, atheism would amount to apostasy and hence be deemed a crime.
A "religion" field in government documents is fairly common. In many countries, some tax revenues are given to religious institutions proportional to the number of citizens that belong to that religion.
This is correct. The Church Tax is only collected if you belong to denominations that collect it. The state takes a cut on the collection, so Church Tax indirectly benefits other citizens.
On the other hand, it's pretty unsettling to be asked your religion when you register your address for the first time. The church in your home country can sometimes onboard you without your knowledge, and you end up paying the church tax. This happened to French and Italian friends.
It's not strange. Many religions contain an absolute prohibition against denying your faith. It prevents any true believers in those religions from having government documents.
Can I transfer Cryptocurrency into and out of PayPal?
Currently, you can only hold the Cryptocurrency that you buy on PayPal in your account. Additionally, the Cryptocurrency in your account cannot be transferred to other accounts on or off PayPal.
I feel like there is a lack of solutions in this area. I messed with Zoneminder a few years ago and I never want to touch it again. What I would like to have is a low-maintenance setup in a docker container that I can throw on a VPS or raspberry pi, run it, set a username/password, point my dad to the web interface where he can configure anything he wants and I never have to deal with it again.
Yeah...I messed around with iSpy (works, but not the best quality recordings for whatever reason), Blue Iris (works better than iSpy, but costs more and had a few times where it just...stopped working. Could't start the application up anymore, couldn't find any sort of safe mode to fire it up and export the profile for a reinstall. Just had to uninstall and reinstall.
After the second time I just said to hell with it and use the software built into my Synology NAS. It's slow and not amazing, but it's easy to keep the cameras and NAS on their own vlan and off the internet for security purposes.
That's exactly zoneminder that you describe! The configuration is maybe not very friendly, but once set up, I never had to deal with it again, and it has been up for many years now.
Are there any online resources on what is the most reliable and cheap printer to use long term? I'm thinking a BW or Color laser printer where the parts last a long time and accept cheap third party toner cartridges?
- Build quality and the low price, the thing is huge and weighs 22kg and I paid only 100 EUR for a new one
- Availability of cheap third party toner cartridges
What I do not like:
- Every toner cartridge must include a circuit board that needs to be replaced together with the cartridge. This increases toner cart replacement price by ~4 EUR
- Third party toner quality varies a lot even from the same seller it's hard to find a cheap supplier with constantly good quality
- After 7 years and about 3k pages printed, a white vertical line / streak started to show up on the printed pages
Based on recommendations here I guess my next printer will be from Brother.
I’ve had very good service from my HP3600N color laser. Economical, reliable, decent paper handling.
It was caught up in the HP driver security cert error of late last month (which makes me suspicious that it wasn’t an accident, but a reinstall of Apple drivers fixed it).
I just ordered an HP laser printer since Wirecutter recommended it. Not used it yet. On HN I see people recommending Brother all the time though, so now I hope my HP is still ok :-)
FWIW, I've been using HP lasers for the last 12 years. The first one started getting a bit wonky after 9 years and I replaced it; the new one has been fine. We do a middling amount of printing (~10,000 pages over those 9 years, iirc).
I haven't tried non-first party toner; the B/W high-capacity HP toner cartridges for my current printer, for example, are ~$200 and last for ~10,000 pages, which works fine for me; my total cost of ownership ends up at $45/year or so, and there's zero hassle involved, which is worth a lot to me personally.
Please tell me how to send a 10k USD from US bank account to EU bank account for $23.46 or less. Transferwise is one of the cheapest and it costs $50 USD in fees.
> tell me how to send a 10k USD from US bank account to EU bank account for $23.46 or less
Sent a few thousand dollars from my Fidelity account to a Frankfurt-based friend’s UBS account last week. Zero fees. Note that I sent, and they received U.S. dollars. I believe they incurred about a dollar of slippage in the FX conversion to Euros.
It's powered by Utrust which doesn't add any fee (only the seller gets a fee: 1% of the selling price). They just actually just introduced what they called reverse stacking : If you stack 1000 utk, you can get the 1% fee payed by the seller.
I am not sure about how much fees Visa will add from their part of the currency transfer. But I guess these fees will stay the same no matter which project you use as long as Visa is part of the payment solution.
