I just can’t take an article complaining about ads seriously when it’s that peppered with ads …

The average person understands email pretty well.

No, they really don’t.

Only if it’s installed somewhere beneath the current working directory, whichever that might be when running the command.

“bank accounts in different countries” is not the same as bank accounts “in any country”.

Which is exactly why you need to tell people what currencies and countries apply to you, if you actually want any useful answers.

what benefits do the african cards from Zimbabwe and Somaliland offer that especially favor travelers ?

I think I’ve heard that banks in Somaliland sometimes offer insurance against pirate attacks, which might come in very handy.

I have bank accounts in different countries […]

In that case the most valuable piece of advice I can give you is that no matter how good contracts you have with your banks currency conversion is never ever for free, so make sure to only use credit cards that you pay in currencies that you have income in or else you’ll always unnecessarily waste money by having to convert from the currencies you have income in to the currencies you need to pay your credit card balance. It’s utterly unlikely that you’ll ever find any credit card that has so good conditions that it’d make up for that loss.

Which brings us back to square one: In order to get any useful advice, you need to tell what currency (or currencies) you have income in, that you’ll use to pay your credit card balance.

Any useful answers to this question will depend heavily on where you live and in which currency you’re going to pay your credit card balance.

I think Paris is a great city that I really enjoy visiting every time I go there, but you’re perfectly right that it’s incredibly overrated, anything with that reputation really must be, nothing that exists in reality could possibly come even close to such a myth.

He doesn’t look like an Industrial Average!

Considering that HSBC is remarkably evil, even compared to other major international banking corporations, this might be a good nudge to stop doing business with them.

The answer to every single one of those questions is: Conan the Barbarian

I like my stuff self-managed.

Bitwarden / Vaultwarden is a popular available working solution for self-hosting and self-managing passkeys (as well as passwords).

Malta

Maltese is an awesome language!

Why would someone own 8 vehicles?

He might be too poor to be able to afford more than that.

Why is it so pervasive? And why does some of it seem to be ignored for literal years?

Considering that you know that these problems have not yet been fixed, you must still be using these products despite these problems not yet being fixed and there’s your answer: What would the motivation be to fix problems that aren’t severe enough to make you stop using the product?

Doesn’t need any comment:

int getCount() { return count; }

Absolutely needs a very extensive comment:

double getBojangleFlux { return fubar * .42; }

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Blick_auf_Arkona_mit_aufgehendem_Mond.jpg

Okay. So how do we turn it off!?

This is probably not the reply you want, but as someone who (in the past 40+ years) has never owned a TV, I simply can’t refrain from asking: Have you considered simply not owning a TV?

Your friend sets you up on a date. Are you going to treat that person horribly. Of course not. Why? First and foremost, because you’re not a dick.

I have in my life met a number of people to whom you might want to explain that this was how they were supposed to behave.

Please ban all the stupid password rules.

Yes.

I would rather just get hacked […]

Eh, no.