Looks like the sanctions worked then.

How is this possible? How did you pay your bills before online billpay systems - did you pay them all by phone?

We had something called an ‘acceptgiro’, it was basically a pre-filled money transfer order. Usually the amount, beneficiary and some reference number were pre-printed. All you had to do was sign it and mail it to the bank (which usually was free, you had pre-paid envelopes from the bank). It was usually attached to the bill, basically a tear-off part of the bill that you signed, stuffed into an envelope and mailed.

For recurring payments you usually give the other party ongoing permission to directly take it from your account. This is still extremely common and how I pay 99.999% of my bills. For things like mortgages, rent and insurance it’s usually required to pay in this way. Basically, my monthly bills get paid without me even having to think about it.

Checks? Cash? What year is this?

My 77” OLED also comes with a special wall mount, no stand. No way to put the TV down without the box. You then need to get the wall mount off the wall and take that too or you won’t have a way to put it anywhere.

Fuck it, we’ll just have it render at 320p and let FSR upscale it to 4k.

Who wants to bet this guy votes republican, which at this point is basically controlled by the Kremlin ?

No, I’m saying that christians are people who claim to be christian.

I don’t think Dolly Parton hates her family.

If the definition of “Christian” is “someone who follows the teachings of Jesus”

If that’s your definition then there are no Christians.

No True Scotsman

It depends a bit on your viewing distance. With 65” you should probably at about 1 to 1.5 meters from the screen.

Maybe because your TV is too small?

4k is not about a sharper picture, neither was 1080p. The sharpness was already good enough. The point of the increase in resolution is larger TVs at the same sharpness. Back when I had an SD TV it was 576p on a 28” screen. When I moved on to 1080p I got a 50” TV. Notice how the size and the resolution increase are in the same ballpark. Now with 2160p I have a 77” TV, so there is still a little wiggle room. I could get to 100” at 4k before I would have to consider 8k.

TVs got larger over the years, and that was made possible by the increase in resolution. There is still some room for growth in 4k.