In a lot of European countries there are local payment apps that work as alternatives. Some banks even have payment support in their own apps.

Check your local market for alternatives, though if your market is the US then there probably isn’t any.

No.

But third party payment apps might work. I’m using one for contactless payments and it works just fine.

Using contactless nfc payment on my grapheneos phone almost daily.

Just not Google Wallet.

https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295

For those who want more

Yeah, but you can also sign in by scanning a QR code with a logged in device.

Though technically it’s then other way around, you sign in to your desktop by scanning the QR code in the login window with your logged in phone.

Well yes, but it has it as an option.

QR based sign in

Surely it’ll trickle down this time?

This is my motivation. I’ll do it for your Godzilla, I didn’t mean to betray your expectations of me.

Oh yeah I could, I was more just interested in knowing if there was an automated selection process or something. Purely out of curiosity.

This is quite cool, but I see nothing on how the choice of cities to include was done?

In my case my city isn’t included, and the nearest city that is, is over 100km away on the other side of a mountain. The next one is about 500km away.

I also see plenty of smaller cities here in Norway than mine that are included, so this makes me think the selection of cities was probably made based on largest city within x radius. Would be neat to know how these selections were made.

10x that money goes into the home server.

Yeah, I’m not gonna buy something from outside of my country (Norway), our consumer protection laws are worth so much more to me.

And most of the savings get eaten up by import fees and VAT, it’d still be cheaper but I would lose out on 10 years of guarantee that trumps any warranty.

Harddrives too! I needed more drives for my NAS and looked at drives last week, noticed they’re all up almost 20% in price since summer… So I bought a single drive 5 days ago (18tb) for ~400 eur. That same drive is 610eur right now.

I bought a 1TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD one month ago, it has since tripled in price.

Apparently it’s a semi common thing for jewelry store workers to do.

You’re not thinking about when Microsoft bribed their way into them not switching by opening an office in the area?

There’s people running old raspberry pis with USB hard drives.

It’ll run on just about anything.

Though, you’ll only be able to stream original quality, no on the fly quality changes for low speed connections and such.

Yeah, you will have to send the dev the new trial ID for a re-activation.

That’s also why it’s costs more, because it’s more manual work for him.

It’s a chore, but really cool by the dev to offer it as an option for people with de-googled devices.

Nope. You can buy an infinite trial via the developers ko-fi!

There’s info about it on the symfonium forum.

Too bad it’s unusable if you’re like me and have huge playlists that you want to offline for shuffling due to spending long stretches of time without an Internet connection.

When I asked about this limitation, I was told that it was stupid to have such big playlists and needing to offline them because nobody is without Internet for long enough times for it to matter.

Great response from the developers that.