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    [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

    Nobody here mention security?

    Like with passkeys (getting better though) and encrypted RCS messages, this is a proprietary standard that still sadly offers way more security.

    It is token based afaik and the secret is never shared or even readable by an attacker. This card can be stolen with a single swipe, all that is protecting you is the banking system being overly cautious and expecting their systems to fail, so you need to enter a pin code on higher transactions or your card is simply locked.

    Paying with VISA card online is insane from a security perspective, made slightly less bad by requiring authentication with a proprietary TAN app.

    [–] bryndos@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I've got this papery stuff, and circley metal discs that works in most places. Unfortunately it does have pictures glorifying some family of depraved paedos on it , but not easy to avoid that.

    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Carrying an actual wallet all the time is pretty inconvenient, but honestly, I've been considering getting back into cash for 2 reasons: 1) If more people use cash, it's harder to legislate it away altogether and 2) so small-time vendors don't have to pay taxes. I don't mean the local grocery store (the big chains get audited anyway), I mean the person with a stall selling homemade smoked sausages in front of a store, or the guy by the road who sells smoked fish from the nearby lake.

    Also euro banknotes don't have people on it to avoid the whole paedo glorification thing, so that's cool

    [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

    Yup.

    And while the monarchist EU countries do stamp their monarchs on their coins, there's more than enough decent and interestin people on other country's variants.

    Like Austria stamping Mozart and Bertha von Suttner (first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Price).

    Or Croatia putting up Nikola Tesla, a Serb from Croatia, on some of their coins, likely to provoke Serbia. Or perhaps to symbolize unity between Croatians and Serbians but I frankly doubt that.

    Or France recently creating coins with three important French women on the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins: Simone Veil, Josephine Baker, and Marie Curie.

    Greece put up a couple people who were instrumental in Greek's fight for independence and, more notably to Europe as a whole, the mythical Princess Europa riding on Zeus - the literal symbol of pan-Europeanism is on Greek's 2€ coin.

    And that's just a sample, there's even more. Largely (ignoring the monarchies) people who genuinely deserve to be looked up to - or at least respected - are on the coins that have a person on them.

    [–] iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app -5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    If you live in a country with 19th century banking where people still pay each other by IOU on little pieces of paper, then sure. In modern countries a lot of places only take electronic payments.

    [–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

    In my country there are both places that only accept electronic payments and places that only accept paper IOUs. Go figure.

    [–] bryndos@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I don't go to those places, don't need their stuff.

    Don't need much stuff really.

    Glad to live in 3rd world shithole.

    [–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago

    I refuse to shop at a place that doesn't do cash.

    [–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

    It’s ok, there are temples around the country that will vouchsafe your ability to pay

    [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

    sounds better than an electronic payments only dystopia tbh

    [–] FoolHen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I got a case with magsafe and a magsafe card wallet, that also works and you can have more cards too

    [–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

    Same, though it's built-in to my phone, just needed the 'wallet' to attach

    [–] Atlas48@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

    I just don't bother in the first place. Don't like having a single point of failure.

    [–] manuremy@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

    But my Nokia C2-01 is smaller than my card..

    [–] kibblebits@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago

    Can I use my Apple Card?

    [–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I don't even have a physical card (I have a virtual one). But fuck cards, it's a waste of plastic.

    [–] Mika@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    How do you pay with virtual card without google pay?

    [–] oats@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    You're saving a lot of money that way

    [–] Mika@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Saving on what?

    [–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

    Card fees. I'll use Wise for reference here. They have a free account that you can sign up for. If you want to get a plastic card, that'll be circa 4€ for the card, something for shipment and then a recurring plastic card fees.

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