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[Marko :)]

Are birthdays disabled?
I used to always get a message on my birthday, but today I got nothing...

Happy birthday... with a slight delay! We're gonna blame it on time-zone differences.

Happy Birthday.

I put a fake birthday on my profile, no one needs to know it.

According to the internet, I was born on 01/01/1998.
According to my birth certificate, only year is correct.

You should never give your date of birth online, as well as answer truthfully on security questions. There are still online services that verify account identity based on those, and anyone who knows these details may get access to your online accounts.

 

[TairikuOkami]

You should never give your date of birth online, as well as answer truthfully on security questions.

Indeed, in my country, the day of birth is actually used as a social security number in US, it is unique. So when they call me and ask me:
When were you born? In 20th century. What year? The year of a dog. But what day? It was a night. The date? No, I am single, but thanks.

 

[Marko :)]

Indeed, in my country, the day of birth is actually used as a social security number in US, it is unique. So when they call me and ask me:
When were you born? In 20th century. What year? The year of a dog. But what day? It was a night. The date? No, I am single, but thanks.

You're joking, but in Yugoslavia, all republics had JMBG (jedinstveni matični broj građana, eng. unique master citizen number) which was your social security number. It was made of date of birth, republic, region you're from, if you're natural citizen, your sex etc. I was born two years after the war and still had JMBG because countries continued to use it, just renamed it from JMBG to MBG.

Only in 01/01/2009, because of possible privacy violations, government announced creation of OIB (osobni identifikacijski broj, eng. personal identification number) which was actually a random set of numbers assigned to every citizen and business entity.

Fun fact: even though (J)MBG is long gone from any use, a lot of government issued documents still have (J)MBG field for you to fill it and you can leave it empty or write your OIB. But no one should be surprised. Our laws still have written fines in Deutsche Marks.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

No Windows 11 option yet, used Other.

Windows 11 is back