I don’t like the idea of giving google more info about me, but they probably already have it.
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I do
My bank account itself isn’t linked and the credit card is a virtual number (as in my credit card company provides a virtual number so Google pay does not have the actual number) so to me it’s probably more secure than PayPal linked to my checking account
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I’ve also heard Google Pay/Apple Pay are more secure in the sense that they aren’t affected by credit card skimmers, too
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Me too! My previous phone didn’t have the ability to use it but I haven’t had a card number compromised since I started, where typically it’s been about one every other year.
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Yes, though my card itself now supports tap so I’m using that even more (it’s faster and less error prone than going thru the phone). I carry 1 card, license, and insurance card in a stick-on wallet on the back of my phone.
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My main credit card is tap to pay so I’ve never set up any phone stuff, and only some of the places I shop even reliably take the tap to pay versus inserting.
I use Apple Pay and it creates a fake card number every time I use it which makes it nice because even if someone gets the number it used in a transaction they aren’t getting my actual number. So I use it anytime I can. I don’t love giving them the personal info, but in this case the convenience is worth it to me. Plus Apple already has all my info anyway if I’m realistic.
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Ohhh canadian cards have done tap and or chip n pin since forever. And we upped the taps for covid. Meaning who knows what anyone’s pin is these days
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Yeah, Canadian banking practices are way ahead of America’s. When I lived in Iowa in 2000 I was so baffled that everyone was paying for everything with cheques. Like, pieces of paper. I couldn’t use my debit card most places. Every time I’ve been to the states I’ve been amused and appalled by the archaic payment options.
I looked it up once. Canada adopts new banking/ payment tech easily because we have only a few banks. (and tons of credit unions, but they act as a unit in most ways)
America has tons and tons of banks and each adopts tech at their own pace.
I can’t explain why credit cards all became tap overnight several years ago here and are still mostly not there. @anomalily, care to shed some light?
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About half are tap here now, but not all the payment portals are updated.
I talked about it a bit in this episode:
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And all of them adhere to a few networks, and so work and play ni ely
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Tap limits are set by the retailer you shop at.
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Is there a specific way to get a funny forum badge?
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What is my town considered if there are about 25,000 full time residents? I keep saying smallish town, but is that right? There are also about 20,000 students when university is in session, so I have no idea how to figure that either.
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Some people specifically call those “college towns”. In my state, that could be classified as a town, village, or city depending on the type of government it had.
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Yes please. Not sure I’ll have time to do them. But want to see if I can.
My husband does.
Large town or small city. But I side with the rabbit- College Town is it’s own thing.
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Are you talking about:
- How to change your badge-title-thing near your name
- How to get a specific type of badge?
For the first, you go into your profile settings and select from your badges.
For the second, it’s a combo of getting them from challenges and/or asking Lily. 
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But college town can be the 30k total full time and students in my moms town up to the 90k in the one an hour from me. Seems like a very broad definition?
ETA: google says “welcome to the city of”… but they must be including the students
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