[ig0r0]

I bought a new SIM to have a new phone number, create a new email, registered a new Apple ID from a clean VM and different IP, got to the step where I have to pay for the dev account and all of the cards I used got me an error. Banks saying Apple did not even try charging them.

[londons_explore]

Maybe the VM is the problem - not sure if they let you sign up from emulated osx.

[ycombiredd]

Could be. Long ago I tried to sign up for an Apple Dev account, having bought a cheap used Mac mini just for the purpose, but learned in the process that they were only allowing signups from Intel Macs and not Power PC Macs, much to my chagrin.

[ig0r0]

Not macOS, Linux to be competently different that my main machine.