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I don’t have to worry about my credit card’s battery. And I don’t have to buy a new one for several $100 every few years. Credit cards aren’t ideal, but there
by earthnail 3y ago
I don’t have to worry about my credit card’s battery. And I don’t have to buy a new one for several $100 every few years.
Credit cards aren’t ideal, but there are also debit cards and they work just as well. Of course, there are different tradeoffs: what if you paid with a different card than the one in your pocket?
Still, Ryanair requiring printouts is a joke.
- scarface_74 3y ago> And I don’t have to buy a new one for several $100 every few years. You are free to go on Amazon and buy an unlocked cheap Android phone for $30.
- iksm 3y agoYah super, running apps made by trainees or websites that takes ages to even render, if not, filled with third party assets and trackers, as well as depending running whole cloud infrastructures just to enter a museum or to see a restaurant menu L O L. I think you don't even realize how stupid it is. PS: I did not ever gave 1 cent to Amazon, feel "free" to do so as well.
- scarface_74 3y agoWell choose where you want to buy cheap unlocked Android phones from. Do you not think it takes an entire "cloud infrastructure" for the museum to take credit cards?
- iksm 3y agoI think online ticketing systems are fine, and yeah they mostly require to run on a robust infrastructure. Knowing the trends, that certainly would depend on big-tech cloud infrastructure. I don't care unless this become a mandatory de-facto standard to access public places. Hopefully yet it is not, and people would reject that if that would become an obligation. But there's a chance that our children would not even know this is bare dumb cause it would be the norm.
- zabzonk 3y agoThis is a wind-up, isn't it?