Well, what if you need an actual card for identification in the bank or something similar? Do you just show them the dissolved one?

Some banks issue stickers for phones without NFC. It's another physical card but contactless only and very thin (probably with an aluminum strip antenna).

>ExtremeDullard
>most interesting post

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I just wanted to say your dad is definitely proud of you dude

You clever, I like.

You're saving a lot of money that way

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

Gotta carry ID, what's one more card?

The only time I've gone to my bank in the last 20 years was to get a new card, or to open a new account at a new bank.

Don't know about OP but gov ID works for that purpose. I'm more worried about when they go to a store that doesn't accept tap.

I don't have british pounds at hand so can't test... Why are you putting valuable stuff next to more valuable stuff, anyway? Like to have everything stolen in one go?

Definitely doesn't live up to their username.

shaking my head my head

You seem to have been sniffing some to be smacking your head's head.

Just get this phone - a bit thick, but very pocketable.

I don't think they're necessarily sharing the photos with glowies.

I don't need to carry my ID most of the time

Kudos for the effort. With that said, this would definitely raise some eyebrows if you have to return the card when getting a new one.

I feel like it was a joke directed at people using ATM machines and staring at LCD displays

Saving on what?

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.

Expenses. Have none when you can't pay

How often are you finding people steal your phone?

Yeah I clearly overestimated people's familiarity with this particular meme.

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.

None because I try to avoid bringing it in the first place. It's my 2FA box.

I've never had to do that... Just say you lost it.

Works without connection too🔥

To be fair, it somehow got into hands of the owner of the bank, who is very closely tied to the government

Peak Lemmy behaviour I love it

I was thinking about this, and there are two easy workarounds, I think:

1. If possible, get a second active card in the same name. Ideally, a full-identical cloned card. Not sure if this would be allowed, but if not...
2. Add another authorized user to your account and never give them the card, then just dissolve that card for tap payments.

But, in either case, I do think you might run into a different issue: automated fraud detection sometimes requires me to chip+PIN, even for transcribed below the tap limit. This has happened to me when traveling. I don't think there would be any way around that, and if you then fail to authenticate with chip+PIN, it's reasonable to think that the bank would lock your card for contactless payments until you successfully authenticate the card again with chip+PIN. (To be clear: this is only speculation; not sure if that would be an issue in practice.)

So, I suspect that whether this would work or not might depend on your institution (or maybe jurisdiction?)

Have you ever run into difficulty with needing to authenticate with chip+PIN? Like while traveling?

That would be my big concern with this; it would make it very difficult to pass a PIN check, to say the least!

Super cool idea. I might just try it myself and see if I run into issues.

"Please use chip reader".....

Contactless payment works without connection. Now, the technical marvel is that it works even if the phone is dead.

Now how about contactless payments without visa or MasterCard.

makes you wonder what the CEOs of all those age verification companies are doing with all the photos

I don't carry my id and digital state ID s are out either way.

Non American credit cards when

Wow.

What I modified was in fact a contactless payment token. It had the form factor of a payment card, but it only does NFC.

I have another card for chip+pin.But I almost never use it where I live, because all limits were lifted on contactless payments a few years ago. If I try to pay something really expensive contactless, it will ask me for the pin - which is specific to the payment token.

Suddenly we need to explicitly write /s again

We know that the NSA and probably whoever dedicated enough can potentially access webcams remotely too, and millions of kids now have cameras in their room at all times through their phone or computer.

I'm European, I technically have a MC credit card which I'll use on the rare occasions I need a credit card, but the vast majority of the time it's debit card or direct transfers (what they're now calling wero).

At that point one should just
https://dangerousthings.com/product/vivokey-thermo/
and get a free thermometer as well

Fairphone 6 has an add-on exactly for this.

this can be useful too! https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tu_darmstadt.seemoo.nfcgate

probably requires root though

Depends on how fussy the bank is, but yeah.

sounds better than an electronic payments only dystopia tbh

It would have been nice if crypto didn’t turn into a network of pyramid schemes.

Like, I am sympathetic to the idea. I mined a Bitcoin a long time ago (and lost it in intervening years). But holy moly, did it erupt into a tire fire.

Yeah, I'm afraid I've no idea. I'll search, but to be sure I've got the right one, a link would be appreciated.