It's OK, Gramps, let's get you back to bed.

Strangely enough thats exactly why I dont carry a wallet. I carry all the things you'd expect in your wallet, but spread out over all my pockets.

Get a card binder. Can even put in a note or two with rarely used cards.

I learned my lesson when my banking app had an error with location detection and wouldn't let me pay. Luckily I was with someone I could borrow the money from. I now always carry a backup, lol.

Eh, my wallet is a single point of failure. My phone is/can be backed up and recovered if lost, stolen, or broken.

Not to mention, if you lose your phone, you can remotely deactivate it, and it (can) take a pin or biometric to unlock the phone and access the data. Your lost/stolen wallet means anyone who has it has access to all the info in it, and you have to go through the hassle of deactivating cards and getting new cards.

In a better world, phone-based payment and IDs would be far superior. The problem is that the current companies and governments involved in setting that up are a bunch of invasive money-grubbing fuckwads.

I wouldn't mind that so much if those payment methods were more universally accepted, but they aren't.

I use a wallet case so I can put cards in the back of my phone case instead of carrying a wallet.

Exactly. We should decrease our dependency on these companies, not increase it.

A guy in front me at the grocery store had to ditch a cart full of items because his phone was dead.

Super embarrassing for them.

You already can't in so many places. I thought it was required to accept cash, but apparently that's only for paying the government.

Some ATMs track the serial numbers of the bills you get. Even then, though, it's more private than a card. Unless they have video of you shoving the bills into a machine for payment, say at Walmart self-checkout, they really don't know how many hands the bills passed through before they passed through a reader again. Also, good if you can get a store to break the large bills for you. Then, they only know that you paid for a pack of gum with a 100-dollar bill.

Cards also need to take quite a bit of damage before they stop working too.

Or if you live in the middle of nowhere like I do, stores just don't turn that feature on.

That's basically why I carry a wallet -- as backup. I got used to leaving my wallet at home unless I was driving and I needed my license. But, then one time I spent 45 minutes shopping tried to pay, and for some unknown reason I couldn't pay with my phone. Now, if the phone doesn't work I have the NFC card in the wallet. If the NFC doesn't work on the card, it also has a chip so I can insert it. If, for some reason, that fails too, I have enough cash for at least the main things I want to buy.

If I'm going out and not planning on doing a major shop, and don't need to drive, the wallet stays home. If something comes up the phone will probably work, but it's not worth the extra space to carry the wallet just in case.

Who?

Gen X has been skipped again.

I'm not mad at that.

The less we are noticed, the more autonomy we have.

I agree, Gen X deserves some of the inter-generational posting spat.

I'll start: the "Mtv generation" is largely freaking out over people breaking gender norms. Guess its only ok when Prince does it.

My phone's dead. Guess I'm broke until I find a charger.

>it was about that time that i noticed @OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world was about 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era

Nah. It's just cards. I haven't touched cash in a decade, but I do have way too many cards I need that can't go in my phone.

I've paid for drugs at festivals with card because the dealer had an iZettle

Many of my dealers were accepting Cashapp and Venmo when I got sober a few years ago.

Checking out at the liquor store

Cashier: "Can I see your ID?"

Me: "Awww. I hardly ever get 'carded' anymore. It feels kind of nice."

Starts to pull out wallet

Cashier: "Oh, nevermind. You're good."

Me: "...Listen here you little shit. You started this whole thing. Now I'm going to show you my ID anyways and you're going to act surprised like 'OMG! I could have sworn he was 22! I didn't even notice his bald spot.'".

We're well known to have aged particularly gracefully