How about two gym memberships and a library card?
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We also desperately need a non-US archive.
Works for something like PSN. I see cards for sale in local shops. They can presumably be used to claim some funny money in the service that you can pay with.
Steam could probably do the same, but would suck for a smaller operation.
There used to be some cash to BTC machines that would work with any service.
I would add "downvote posts with no useful content" to that. (Report if you know the community has had the sense to forbid that kind of posts.) That does seem to cause some people to flip out, though.
I don't think they are. Protectionist and interested in their exports, seem more likely.
Spam in, spam out, profit in the middle.
I disagree on even that. It should be enough to have some trusted "notary" tick a box that they have verified your driver's license as valid. It should not be stored out sent anywhere at any time. Just showed to a human. Regularly, if needed.
And/or windows admins.
I have bought a few otherwise hard to find books on Amazon. Actual paper books. At least used to be possible.
If all the settings and versions match, my first suspicion would be that there's some library available on one system that gets used but not the other. Have you taken very verbose logs to see if there's differences that stand out?
All things were doable before. The point is that they were manual extra steps.