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Nooo... never hotel or restaurant wifi... nooooo...
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VPN's there for a reason.
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My wife uses her brother's old iPhone for FaceTiming with him. It stays charged by her chair in the living room.
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k5054 wrote: Does there still exist a way to pay without the QR code?
Not at that lot. And I did look.
I have used several other lots in the downtown region recently and those still use a credit card reader. Only. Cash not allowed.
One types in the license plate number then selects how long, then the credit card.
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I'd be tempted to just add a few black marks on the QR code with a sharpie ...
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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Yes, when they assume that EVERYONE has a smartphone it is a big problem, as well as assuming that those who DO have smartphones know how to use QR codes.
REQUIRING everyone to use a smartphone app is a huge burden on the elderly, even if they have smartphones.
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I live in India, and here, we have the UPI: Unified Payments Interface - Instant Mobile Payments | NPCI
When a QR code is scanned, and used for payment, it shows the name of the recipient (on my mobile), and I can refuse to pay if the name looks fishy. The UPI payment system is indeed a robust one.
modified 13-Dec-23 12:45pm.
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I guess that requires mobile phone coverage, supporting all the various standard of all potential customers.
Maybe 100% geographical smartphone coverage is the top priority development goal of every country in the world, ahead of health care, decent and healthy food, education and housing. I read a claim a few days ago that 90% of all adults on earth own a smartphone. I am not sure that I believe that figure, but my impression is that less than 90% have decent health care, food, education and housing. Maybe having a smartphone will help them forget their uncovered needs.
Having mobile technology available as an option is great, but I really dislike how we make ourselves (read: the entire world) totally dependent on it working flawlessly at any time, and is available to every one of us at any time. When I go out for a walk, or go downtown shopping, or whatever, I usually leave my smartphone at home. (Except when I go out with friends who take for granted that they can carry on a conversation with me through texting if the noise at the pub gets so loud that we have problems hearing each other across the table, so we use SMS for chatting  )
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Quote: usually leave my smartphone at home.
In the crime dramas I watch, that never suffices for an alibi!π
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trΓΈnderen wrote: When I go out for a walk, or go downtown shopping, or whatever, I usually leave my smartphone at home.
Optimist?
Myself I was an emergency contact for about 10 years which is why I first got a mobile. So it went everywhere with me. To a certain extent I still am.
But now I also consider cases where perhaps I witness an accident or I fall and realize walking further is going to be a problem.
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The parking garage at my doctors office is like that.
Mobile Webapp to pay: enter license plate number, cell number, and credit card.(and maybe spot number?)
Just drive out when you are done and you receive your receipt via SMS within a few seconds.
No honor system, tow trucks are the enforcers.
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I never scan QR codes. Ever.
During lockdown a lot of restaurants wanted customers to scan a QR code to view the menu, but I insisted that they hand me a printed menu, which they all did.
I'm bad enough with reading restaurant menus that the idea of trying to do it on my phone was just not going to happen.
It's not you, it's me.
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In the process of importing data from different sources; kept going back and forth: adding a field here and there; another enum; another conversion run. Heavy sigh.
I finally put the "source" text in one property and overlayed it with a bunch of "Get's":
IsItThis => Contains ...
IsItThat => ...
DivisionNumber => Substring ...
UnitType => Parse( ...)
etc.
No more "data"; just code.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: back and forth: adding a field here and there; another enum; another conversion run
Very long ago I learned to do write code to create code. My tool of choice for that is Perl.
Probably my most ambitious project was when I used a pseudo schema to produce all of the Db DTOs, Database layer code, CRUD procs, UI DTOs with validation, and full unit tests. Probably close to 500 files.
I also use Perl a lot for data munging.
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