With the credit cards, you still need to get android wallet, Apple pay, authenticate, do the NFC dance…
Many European countries already have local parallel systems already for pin and chip cards, Visa/MasterCard is already a secondary system if the card is used within the country’s border despite the huge logos.
It hasn’t been rolled out to brick and mortar yet. This is planned in Q4 2026. ( And yes: they have planned much lower fees than visa/MasterCard and simpler P.O.S setups where existing hardware could be used).
The EPI (European Payment Initiative , a grouping of 16 European banks and financial institutions) is deliberately doing a slow launch though the tech behind it is all set up.
They don’t want to F-up with people’s money.
Special UV glue repair kit for cars from most online stores, read the instructions and use common sense. Will need your phone to remain in direct sunlight for a little while. But the end result will be way more optically clear than most other solutions, short of replacing the whole back (and most, if not all, crack lines will disappear).
Works great IMHO.
Not using it but I heard curve does it too over graphene OS. (And no, it’s not a bank nor FOSS) But if a tokenised wallet app is all that keeps you from Moving forward …)
It’s up to us, users of those FOSS apps, to collectively pour more money into the pockets of FOSS devs to make f-droid more important to their bottom line (and for a lot of FOSS apps that are also distributed on the play store, it won’t be hard to be a bigger financial input) so that when the requirement is pushed to their play store account, they feel free to decide to side with their hearts and say goodbye play store, knowing this community will keep them fed.
Time for many of us to get aquainted with the liberapay button on most app pages in f-droid.
Maybe it was a stray Android dev who moonshines in FOSS projects or their security team that is a fan of GOS’s secure implementation of Android (Yes, they are rightfully admired by many of the big guys for That) or : What part of their soul did Graphene sell to get that early access?
Yes. Cooperation among the remaining liberal democracies is important. We are all in the US/Russia/China crosshairs.
Taiwan, Japan and South Korea do care. They are very much afraid that if Russia succeeds, then China would follow suit. Taiwan has a problem with TSMC that opens factories all over the world and therefore dilutes the protection having all the factories in Taiwan was having. South Korea understands the Ukrainian Territory of Donbass is a training ground for Kim’s army. And Japan has disputed land to protect from China and Russia.
A huge, essential for survival, client base?
And suddenly, Huawei, WeChat, Baidu doesn’t look too bad to the EU.
(It’s not in the interests of what this sub stands for, but it’s an argument US firms and government would listen to).
Going as great as intel! Goooo team waste…
Even the UK has significant leverage with ARM.
It allows sepa transfers (no fees by law and instant), which Wero is a front for (but, like stripe and others, Wero will also entail processing fees for businesses).
Liberapay which is held together by a few frenchmen is only funded through donations to it’s own liberapay crowdfunding account on its own platform.
I think considering it all, it’s a very laudable project.
What does the “transperancy” correspond to? It doesn’t look like a data collection thing.
And the EU will falter, again. Not its citizens, mind you, its politicians.
After a lot of fanfare, the European parliament concluded that they cannot realistically get rid of using Microsoft, Google, AWS.
The UK doesn’t talk anymore about getting a backdoor into apple’s E2E (probably because the US allowed that country to get a seat into icloud allongside the NSA).
Google isn’t hesitant anymore about opening its AI mode in France.
the GDPR isn’t fully applied: Gemini, chatGPt and others remember past conversations which is in breach of the GDPR, but it’s fine, no one noticed.
French police have proof that the guy on kick didn’t die because of the tortures so KICK should be fine.
Trucks are back on the market, unmodified because the EU will adapt security and emission regulations for them.
This is what bowing to Trump and his FANGS looks like. This is what all European nations are doing behind the theatre of resisting for the benefit of their citizens.
No it’s all good American firms that are going to take the leadership of our future. Done.
And no: even if one day the democrats come back to power (and how are they ever going to do that?), it won’t change a thing, they also like having their hands around our necks.
Because we want US money. If we start not buying US weapons, energy and tech, Trump could put more tarrifs on our backs and OMG that would be our downfall!
There we are just selling our countries themselves to the US, we already accepted to sell our population’s sanity to all US social media and US entertainment companies. We already accept Google to filter our news and put what is important to them at the front-page of the news cycle.
No one cares anymore. The EU is dead, merely 5 minutes after pushing strong laws against all this.
BACO: Bruxelles always chickens out.
Yes with your own data. But with the data the state has about you: it’s all going across the pond. Whether you like it or not. They have chosen to bow to Trump. As the head of NATO said : “Daddy’s back”.
Not gonna happen, it’s time to acknowledge it. Europe is weak and set in its ways. It doesn’t want to lead but be a follower with a theatre of regulations that is not applied to big US corporations.
Europe would prefer to kill 10 of it’s nascent cloud companies rather than push away Microsoft, Apple or Meta.
Expect the same in AI Access to European data.
It’s all smokes and mirrors. We don’t want to be eaten up by Russia and we don’t want to fight. So we stay under the protection of uncle Sam in exchange for what we go all in deep into US tech and surveillance capitalism.
And we are sold cute stories about laws like GDPR or DMA that will never be applied and ridiculously small penalties for the few cases that make it to court.
That’s good, have it, not using it yet, never had the opportunity to. Brick and mortar will probably be the first time I’ll use it (unless online shows up first, but I usually buy stuff from small online retailers, seldom the big ones that will embrace it first.)
I work for a french public owned company in transport. The whole company uses Microsoft 365, “sysadmin is an idiot and I don’t trust his password system” [ editing done] etc… Oh yeah, no one thought about cleaning up the system so copilot’s here all right, just sipping in the corner.
We are truly f***d .Doesn’t matter whom attacks, the US, China, Russia, indépendants. They can paralyse this transportation network in a snap. And I know it’s far from a lone example.
The french public services are hopeless as far as computing and basic security is concerned. There are a few times when they struck genius and got productive, secure services out, but day to day companies that are the infrastructure of the country itself are hopeless.
And the person you are talking to doesn’t represent Europeans.
As far as I see, throughout most of Europe the is a very strong current of filth in people’s mind. Fashism and racism is on the rise in both the US and the EU. The US isn’t alone going through this.
The emergency is such that the Time must not be used for pointing fingers between democracy lovers but to find a path that would push people going to the far right today back into saner grounds. And to get back those votes, going full left isn’t the emergency pull. It’s good on the long term but the emergency is such that we need to entice those that strayed back into the fold , not offer them a portrait of what they’ve been brainwashed to hate.