• jaybone@lemmy.world
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      They had been saying this over at that other site for like 13 years before I left.

      I’m sure it’ll work out here though.

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        If I browsed these types of joke-sharing communities more often, I’d petition community mods to create a rule against it. I don’t think that’s too harsh.

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    I keep 3 forms of payment on me for this reason. Phone, card, cash, in that order.

    Edit: Within 30 minutes of making this comment, I was at a Walmart. No NFC payment. The machine didn’t like my card. Now I have 2 quarters and a penny in my pocket.

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    "Why are you suddenly in a rush, sir? Life has clearly already passed you by.

    Hey, uh, just between you and me, what was Alexander Hamilton really like?"

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    I heard the Elderly Man’s words in the voice of Kris Kristofferson’s Whistler character from the Blade movies.

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      well that is at least a 4 yo joke. know a few apple types that would have the manager make it work with their expensive watch just because. Gpay which works now mostly, didn’t work half the time either. I still keep plastic handy. Target now has self-serve reversible checkouts which mostly don’t work. gl getting these to take cash. I couldn’t get this one to scan 3 items. call attendant, yeah I just left items there and walked out. love/hate tech. gl to future boy

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    Honestly I wonder how well these PTP payments would work in my home state considering how now one used them and phones are infomas for not working on top of a lot of places being cash only so I can only imagine how few places can even except g pay

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      Does it even use the mobile data for payment?

      The establishment taking payment needs to communicate with their merchant provider (otherwise they’d never get their money), but I’m not sure that the phone does. It’s similar to contactless cards, but uses a different floor limit so you don’t need to enter a PIN, as it’s assumed that if you’ve unlocked the phone then you’re authorised to make payments.

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        Isn’t moble data the stuff your phone uses too communicate like the main reason why people don’t use their phones outside in my home state is due to how there’s a lot of dead zones where it can’t communicate no calls, texts or Internet connection. When travailing the only thing your phone really can do is play angry birds and take pictures because the environment is basically forcing your phone to be on airplane mode

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          Yeah, if you’ve got no internet then you can’t do all the nice internet things.

          Pretty sure you’d need internet (wifi would do) to set up Apple/Google Pay on your phone, but I don’t think you need internet when out and about paying for things.

          Apple seem to have no problem with it.

          https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8204935

          Looks like the Google one needs to phone home every so often, but should work for “a limited number of transactions”. Whether that’s by value or by transaction count I don’t know. It certainly seems to be instant whenever I use it, which makes me think it doesn’t rely on internet access.

          https://support.google.com/wallet/thread/177978646/do-you-need-data-to-use-google-pay?hl=en

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            You’re correct. I’ve made payments with my phone and watch lots of times without any WiFi or data connection.

            Only the payment terminal needs to be connected.

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    How many different payment methods does the world need? Is this efficiency or just another skimming scam lol

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      Skimming works because it attacks 1980s technology.

      Contactless is much more secure, given an extra 40 years of defending scams.

      Thinking of this as “just another attack vector” is laughably ignorant, really.

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        I tend to view the finance industry as a bunch of skimmers. Funnel money through as many companies as possible so everyone gets a fee.

        I was not thinking of security at all.

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          To be fair, I wasn’t expecting to hear that you were coming into a conversation about contactless payments, using a word like “skimming” and meaning something completely out-of-context.

          That’s a real doozie, yo.

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    could give a flying f’ about punchline in title. must be a reddit aftertaste

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    news about shoplifting loses at all time highs. I’ve forgot a few things in the cart and walked out with them. arrest me. too short staffed to chase down self checkouts. no wonder MBA geniuses. spend a dollar to save a penny