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I needed to get a message to my misses while on a long flight home. It wasn't an emergency but it would have been a total bummer to let her know after I had lan
by sv0t 2y ago
I needed to get a message to my misses while on a long flight home. It wasn't an emergency but it would have been a total bummer to let her know after I had landed.
The problem was I had packed my wallet into my check-in like a dumbass. I couldn't figure out a way to sign up for in flight wifi. Plenty of apps and services have my credit card number on my phone but none of them would show the entire number without me signing on.
The flight however had Alipay as one of the apps to pay, which would have been great except it wasn't working. It still allowed connections to alipay. I figured out I could cancel the payment through a button hiding in a transaction details page and be dumped out to the alipay home screen.
The alipay chat feature wasn't working though, they'd must have thought about that. But some of the mini-apps did work, including the mini-app for my home automation.
It let me send a message to the terminal thingy at the door of my place where you buzz people in (there was a feature to send mail to other rooms, I just sent it to myself).
This took up about 40 minutes of the 11 hour flight.
- retrochameleon 2y agoSet up a password manager like Bitwarden or 1Password (which you should absolutely do anyways), and you can put all your card information in the manager. They typically will auto fill them as well