On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 22:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/07/2021 20:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 20:22 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 06/07/2021 20:08, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > It's annoying when banks decide to "improve" security by > > > > requiring > > > > their customers to use a specific platform rather than a > > > > general > > > > standard. All banks here use smartcards but the personal > > > > terminal > > > > is > > > > just an offline card reader with a display. > > > It is only the Post Office Bank here that requires the Smart Card > > > Reader. The Post Office > > > also sells the a reader to make things "easier". I suspect they > > > take > > > a piece of the action. > > > :-) :-) > > And require a Windows machine to use it? Personally. I'd look for a > > different bank. Here the bank just gives you the card reader when > > you > > open an account. > > We have accounts at other banks. But the P O account is tied into > paying house taxes, > electric bill, gas bill and others. Too much of a pain to change.
Getting way off-topic here, but in the UK you can switch bank accounts for all such payments (direct debits) in a single operation. The two banks coordinate the handover between themselves. Takes a few days but is no more complicated than changing your phone service provider. I did it a couple of years ago and as I recall didn´t need to contact any of the payees myself. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
