I think they shrink down fairly small? Maybe she has them in a string of anal beads?

Probably Meta paid them off. I bet the band wasn’t even involved, probably Meta negotiated with the marketing division of the record label.

I like the Reconfigured version better with Glitch Mob and others.

The Garmin vivoactive 5 is the one I was considering since it seems relatively affordable and apparently once the card is on the watch through the Garmin Pay app then it works without the phone being connected.

The reason I’ll never pay Google a subscription fee is because they still spy on you and make money off your data even if you pay them.

The deal is supposed to be either:

• I get your service for free, you spy on me and sell ads to cover the cost of the service

OR

• I pay for your service, you will NOT show me ads or sell my data

Any service that doesn’t fall into one of those two categories can GTFO.

NFC pay is not ubiquitous enough in my area so I use a phone case that has room for cards. I still need to carry a physical health insurance card and a physical ID as well so my wallet case is not going away. I actually bought a pixel 9 instead of 10 just because my favorite wallet case was available.

I’m considering just getting a Garmin watch that I keep disconnected from my phone to use for NFC pay. Seems like I would be able to set up my cards in Garmin Pay app and then just disconnect it.

It doesn’t even need to be in the store, just let me order one online and check off a “GrapheneOS” box, the same way that I can order a Framework laptop with either Windows or Linux.

But I get your point, I can see how someone could get confused when their phone arrived and required some extra tinkering to get Google stuff to work.

Wouldn’t it be better if it DID? Wouldn’t that get around all the “tamper” detection stuff?

Right now I have Google Play disabled in my owner profile, but it would be nice if apps in secondary profiles could pass the full Play Integrity checks… even though I’m actively trying to transition away from them.

For example Cisco DUO says my device with GrapheneOS installed has been tampered with, and I was hoping that would go away if I could just buy the phone with GrapheneOS installed.

We make no-stir risotto in a Dutch oven, I’m sure a deep-ish cast iron with a lid would work as well. We use a cast iron camping pot from Ozark.

Even if that were true (most of the time I get a rideshare it’s in a place you couldn’t pay me to drive in)…

Driving is way more risky than photography, unless you’re shooting in a war zone.

I’m not so sure.

I guess you could argue that the rideshare driver doesn’t own a car solely for rideshare, but the same argument could be made about the camera.

I’d argue that the rideshare driver is putting more wear and tear on the vehicle than the photographer is per shoot.

OOP maybe doesn’t realize it, but her post is perhaps an argument for spending less on the camera.

The photographer even at these rates that she percieves to be low, is going to pay off her camera before the rideshare driver pays off the car.

It’s even worse than that, they think the root cause is immigrants, minorities, and trans people.