Toot

Can I use my Apple Card?

What does this even mean?

Screen side with call buttons

Yeah just use glue, smh my head.

Take that Android! This works even with the phone powered off! It works even without the phone at all!

Wait...

Would be easy enough to print a custom case for this

Ah, now I see it. Thanks!

You could put the rubber bands in between the phone and the case, so it's not on top of the screen.

I'll do one better:

My payment card was just a bit too wide to fit in my cellphone's cover. The phone's own NFC antenna is at the top - and I use it all the time - so the card had to be at the bottom of the cover to avoid triggering the phone all the time, in portrait orientation so-to-speak.

So I dissolved the card in acetone to extract the NFC chip and its antenna, then carefully reshaped one end of the antenna so it's a bit less wide (and since I couldn't modify the length of the wire or the number of turns in any way to avoid de-tuning the antenna too much, I sort of accordioned one side of the rectangle to accommodate the extra length of wire).

Then I set the new shape of the antenna permanently by carefully applying a piece of packing tape over it, flipped it over, taped over the other side to seal everything, then carefully cut around the new, ultra-thin, stubbier contactless payment "card".

Now it fits really smartly in my cellphone cover!

Next time someone calls me a maniac, I'll show them this.

Ironic it's a monobank card, it's mobile only and you have to use a locked unrooted googled phone (or an iPhone) because big brother said so.

Ty, great idea will try it

Delete Plasma Mobile, get SXMO, disable touchscreen then accept calls with side buttons, ez

The fact it's secured with a piece of sellotape is just *chef's kiss*.

Hope that doesn't get too popular, I don't want to have to carry a second phone just to make payments when I can use a much smaller card instead.

Or you can just keep your card in your wallet, like you have done for decades

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

The privileged have to invent their own problems.

The problem is that I don't cary my wallet with me for pretty much a decade now.

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.

Nope, the point of this bank is that it's mobile only. No offices, no webapp.

Didn't have to carry a phone for decades.

Now I don't have to carry a wallet and multiple cards 🤷‍♂️

Ewww using a case.

I love this.

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.

You are fucking crazy. I love you.

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.

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

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

I opened an account with starling partly because they have a real webapp, but you have to fucking log in with your phone, which is half the reason I want a webapp: because fetching your phone when you're already at your computer is just a ballache

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

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.

Amazing, I have never thought of that! I have always carried my card behind the phone, which is a bit too thick for my liking, but this is such a great idea, thanks for sharing!

In other news, cash is foldable.

Nope. The website says "get app" like 4 times. There's a webapp but it's for business stats only (like if you own a cafe). They are just trying to "appeal to the younger generation", and one part of that is the app that spams emojis everywhere. Another part of that is furry stickers ("qr cat") believe it or not; in physical, Telegram and Viber because everything in this damn country is held together by Telegram and Viber.

Good luck folding £100 without having a pretty big bulge in your phone case.

Maybe a solution similar to this could work: https://github.com/nfcgate/nfcgate/blob/v2/doc/mode/Relay.md

Have the card at home sitting on a reader connected to your homelab, add NFC module to PinePhone and simply relay the traffic over network.

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

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

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

Nice meme, but for us out there with at least a fully virtual card (some companies provide such benefits), we need a real MyAss-Pay alternative

I recently found Walt, but it's a work in progress for now. The app is avalaible though

How do you pay with virtual card without google pay?

monobank

Also this https://telegraf.ua/ukr/ukrayina/5935111-gorokhovskogo-chekae-pokarannya-yuristi-rozpovili-chim-dlya-monobank-zakinchitsya-skandal-z-oprilyudnennyam-foto-klientki

TLDR: some woman did a facial recognition log in method, the bank said that the photos are not stored and deleted instantly, but because there was a Slovenian flag (looked like russian in the photo)in the background, she got her bank account blocked and the CEO posted the verification image online

Edit: wrong link

You just had to 1-up everyone here...

context?

See my other comment on this post