• @froztbyte
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    41 month ago

    lol god that’s even worse :/

    so have nfc and value-capped transactions even made inroads there yet?

    • Sailor Sega Saturn
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      1 month ago

      NFC: yes. Most new credit and debit cards have NFC. Can tap to pay at pretty much any retail store and some smaller businesses. There are still weirdly many phone models without NFC (especially lower end), but the situation is slowly improving.

      Value-capped transactions: not really a thing if I understand right.

      • @selfA
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        61 month ago

        it’s embarrassing as fuck though when NFC’s either broken at the terminal or really finicky, so you have to get the cashier to slowly, painfully re-request the payment twice before giving up and seeing if your chip still works

        or you’re at Walmart or CVS and they intentionally disabled it in all their stores for asshole reasons

        even more embarrassing: I accidentally call it NFT and the cashier knows what that is and thinks I’m a fucking idiot

        • @froztbyte
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          41 month ago

          “have you got tap?” / “can i tap?” is a common local verbiage here

          (also “got snapscan?” but that’s more popular in some cities than others, depending how much inroads snapscan has made)

          (we also still have a fairly healthy cash market)

          • @selfA
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            41 month ago

            see I’m slowly shifting my vocabulary to tap unless I’m DIYing an NFC sticker into a project, but sometimes my cursed engineering brain takes over

            maybe both should be tap. maybe it’s all tap. REST calls are now taps.

            • @froztbyte
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              41 month ago

              “tapping the api”

              checks out

                • @selfA
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                  31 month ago

                  this is only part of why Netrunner is the superior deckbuilder

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                    …fucking hell I’ve got Netrunner on the brain. the card game about socialist hackers doing the best they can with what they can scrap together, organizing an economic war against extremely well-financed and terrifyingly powerful but inefficient corporations that almost own the entire world and will if you don’t single-handedly stop them

                    and as if that wasn’t cyberpunk enough, modern Netrunner is completely free and built on a game system and concept appropriated from Fantasy Flight after they let the game go out of print (though you can pay a reasonable price for good-quality printed cards, and they adopted roughly Fantasy Flight’s seasonal model that lets you do a MtG style deckbuilder without the greed elements, which is very nice)

                    e: and Musk is quoted in the other thread like “huh huh huh we all want cyberpunk right but just the duster not the other parts” and it’s like motherfucker a used duster’s normal hazard protection for a dying earth, ask me how I know, and all the other parts of any cyberpunk that’s worth a damn are about how much you fucking suck