I rarely see vending machines that have modern payment methods. It’s like finding a unicorn when there’s one that takes a card. Haven’t seen one with tap to pay at all yet. It’s weird how close I am to Silicon Valley, but in many ways feels like its still stuck in the 80s or 90s.
“You can pay with your watch”.
Good grief, I hate living in the future.
IMO, paying with your watch would be neat, if it wasn’t linked to mass surveillance and fascism.
I don’t care how much my kids calls me an old fart, I don’t think I will ever attach a payment method to a watch.
This is the smallest bill I have, please break it for me.
I refuse to even let my phone have my payment info.
Yeah, it’s crazy. Phones are just about the least secure payment platform imaginable (in the sense of regular criminal hackers, other people having physical access to the device and corporate spies), and banking apps are cementing the vendor lock-in.
How is having physical access to their phone different from having their wallet with credit cards and id?
In your scenario either way, the thief has it. My wallet doesn’t have any facial recognition or passcode option, or native GPS tracker if it’s stolen.
And in both cases you can block this shit as soon as you get access to internet or bank. So wtf.
This is quite literally objectively not true. It’s literally the exact opposite in fact… Your phone is more secure then every other standard method of payment that interacts with your bank account.
In the case of theft of your physical person then your phone is still more secure then any cards or checkbook. Case is literally the least secure in the case of physical theft.
I get not likely the whole corpo aspect of things. But don’t be a fucking idiot and ignore reality and the facts whole doing it.
You’d think someone with the author’s politics would be more reserved about “smart” technology.
I haven’t bought anything from a vending machine in years. They take tap to pay now?
Hell the little kiddie rides and such do too. Making them non-negotiable if your kid is an emotional terrorist. Mine is too small luckily but I just know her mom is going to permit everything and forbid nothing.
I rarely see the rides in use, but my guess is the permissive parent already gave the kid a tablet and tablets are way more addictive than mall rides
My ex-stepdaughter was the one to always go on those. No iPad or phone in public, but she was used to having constant interactive entertainment soooooo… yeah
ex-stepdaughter
Your what?
My ex-wife’s daughter from a previous relationship. Used to be my stepdaughter, now she’s not. Maybe a weird way to phrase it, I guess.
Her mom never really had much time for her or later, our shared child. So the first one was super spoiled by smart devices from a very early age and the second one… idk, but I’m hoping I’ll do better than her.
I understand now. Wouldn’t she still be your stepdaughter though? Unless you never shared custody over her / never bonded, and she’s an adult now anyway.
Not shared custody because she has a father who now has custody of her 75% of the time. We actually cooperated to get our kids out of the witch’s reach, but unfortunately it’s nearly impossible here to get her to lose custody altogether, even if there’s a hundred reasons. They only remove kids from druggies and people with histories of violent crime.
I used to have this. Then I realised how surveillancy it was and got a dumb watch. I now get my weekly spending budge out in cash and pay with that. Turns out u spend less when ur paying cash.
