Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco

Re:Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco by xethos on Saturday October 11, 2025 @12:01AM (#45546477)

Yes and no. I can eTransfer in Canada... to a limit of $2,000 CAD daily. Rent is $2,100, so parent's point stands.

I could upgrade my cellphone and use Google Play Services, allowing up to $10,000 CAD daily, but I have no intention of doing so. I think it's messed up to tie my financial and digital sovereignty to a foreign corporation, I don't appreciate the hit to battery life, privacy, and the pre-requisite bump in hardware to run GApps, and I simply don't want to end up on the spending treadmill for new cellphones.

Canada "solved" this, but the limits haven't kept up with inflation or life in general

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Re:Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco by Nursie on Saturday October 11, 2025 @12:56AM (#45546683)

In Australia I can send $20k. In the UK it was similar.

These concerns seem very weird to me.

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Re:Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco by xethos on Saturday October 11, 2025 @03:37AM (#45547381)

They kind of are, I'll immediately cop to that. I don't think it's that odd to say the constant upgrade treadmill is expensive though. I also don't appreciate gating features of our society behind smartphone ownership.

My specific concerns are odd. Not appreciating smartphone requirements for life feels more mainstream (if only marginally)

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Re:Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco by Nursie on Saturday October 11, 2025 @06:02AM (#45547894)

I’m not tied to a smartphone to do those things in the UK or Aus either.

Different geographies work differently I guess. In Brazil there’s an entire payment network (pix) that is centrally run, free and hugely popular.

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