Fuck google pay, apple pay, any payment system linked to a phone. Fuck a cashless society. I needed to use google wallet for some event recently and couldn't because I'm running grapheneOS. Refuse to use this bull shit. The card processors are a cartel but they're nothing compared to Google owning all transaction data.
I see people using their phone for public transit, I see most people using their phone when buying groceries, that shit makes no sense to me. Why would you want your money to run out of batteries so that it can spy on you?
Pre-pandemic I only used cash, now many places no longer even take it, at least in LA, which I didn't even know was legal. It just works and is not hard to use in any way.
jonny (good kind)
Bradley