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Hey all,

I run a business in Algeria and most of my clients are actually in Europe. I want to build a website to showcase and sell my products online, and my first instinct was Stripe, but turns out it doesn’t support Algeria as a business location at all. There are hacky workarounds like setting up a US LLC + US bank account just to unlock it, but that felt like a lot of overhead for something that should be simple.

I’m specifically curious about:

**•**	What payment gateway/provider are you using that works from Algeria and is comfortable for European buyers (cards, etc.)?  
**•**	Did you go through a local bank/PSP, or something international?  
**•**	Any pitfalls, fees, or delays I should know about before picking one?

Would really appreciate real experiences. Thanks in advance 🙏

Hey all,

I run a business in Algeria and most of my clients are actually in Europe. I want to build a website to showcase and sell my products online, and my first instinct was Stripe, but turns out it doesn’t support Algeria as a business location at all. There are hacky workarounds like setting up a US LLC + US bank account just to unlock it, but that felt like a lot of overhead for something that should be simple.

I’m specifically curious about:

**•**	What payment gateway/provider are you using that works from Algeria and is comfortable for European buyers (cards, etc.)?  
**•**	Did you go through a local bank/PSP, or something international?  
**•**	Any pitfalls, fees, or delays I should know about before picking one?

Would really appreciate real experiences. Thanks in advance 🙏

I have a HAVIT KB221WB wireless keyboard where the bottom-row modifier order is different from a standard PC layout (Fn is where Ctrl usually sits). I also want F1-F12 to default to media functions (volume, brightness) without holding Fn, similar to most modern laptops.

I've confirmed via keyd monitor on Ubuntu that the physical Fn key sends no signal to the OS when pressed alone - so it can't be remapped via keyd, xmodmap, or similar tools. HAVIT support confirmed this is fixed by factory design with no toggle.

Before I give up on this keyboard - has anyone found any workaround for Fn-less keyboards like this, whether software, firmware, or hardware-level? Or is a non-VIA/QMK keyboard like this simply a dead end?

Spent the last 7 months building the integration layer behind an analytics product that connects to a CRM platform, the part that authenticates, pulls historical data, and keeps everything in sync in real time. Wanted to share a few things that surprised me, since most of this never shows up unless you're the one building underneath it.

The biggest one: pagination silently changed strategy partway through large data pulls. The API would start with page-based pagination and switch to cursor-based mid-sync, with nothing announcing it happened. My first sync just quietly dropped records for a week before the counts stopped adding up and I went looking.

Webhooks lied too, in a specific way. An event would fire, I'd go fetch the record it pointed to, and it wouldn't be there yet. The API lagged behind its own webhook system by a beat. Fixed it with a short deliberate delay before the fetch instead of retrying immediately, which just hammered an endpoint that wasn't ready.

Billing got weirder than expected once it wasn't per-user. When access is billed per account rather than per person, you get real scenarios most billing integrations don't plan for: two team members trying to pay for the same thing at once, a payer's card failing on renewal, responsibility shifting from one person to another without anyone losing access mid-transition.

None of this is visible from the outside. As a CRM user you just experience "the integration is being weird again" with no idea why. Usually it's not that the platform is broken, it's that these tools grow faster than their APIs get documented, and things quietly shift underneath the surface.

Curious if others managing CRM integrations have run into similar flakiness, pagination inconsistency, webhook timing issues, or anything else that only shows up once you're deep in the plumbing.

Hi all,

I've been admitted to a postgraduate program (not a full Master's) at Nova IMS, running September 2026 to July 2027 (about 10-11 months, listed as "1 academic year" on my admission letter).

The university told me this likely falls under a Temporary Stay visa (E6) rather than a D4 Residency visa, since the program is under 12 months.

Has anyone been through this exact situation? Will I actually get a Temporary Stay visa or a D4 for a program this length? Any real experience would help a lot.

Thanks!

Salam khouty

got accepted into a postgraduate program in Portugal starting September and trying to sort my student visa

anyone been through the TLScontact process from Algeria recently? specifically:

• what documents did you need for the student visa?
• when do appointment slots usually drop? cause there's literally nothing available 🙂

any help appreciated 🙏🫡

Salam khouty

got accepted into a postgraduate program in Portugal starting September and trying to sort my student visa

anyone been through the TLScontact process from Algeria recently? specifically:

• what documents did you need for the student visa?
• when do appointment slots usually drop? cause there's literally nothing available 🙂

any help appreciated 🙏🫡