🙄 first of all, I carry a very limited wallet with me most of the time, and I only have to carry a keychain when I’m in the US.

I was replying to the dismissive person above asking what to do when he loses his phone. Which is absurd in itself.

I will say that it is incredibly liberating to have my one device do almost everything else I care about, mapping, calendaring, communicating with people in meeting with, conducting my purchases, and providing podcasts or tunes all at the same time. I love that I have open source software for almost all of the functions, and well essentially all conglomerated businesses are evil, I trust Visa way more than I trust, say, Bitcoin, or BNPL vendors like Affirm, or Klarna.

I’m not going to handle cash money if I don’t have to because exchange rates are terrible and take margins at EACH transaction, are bulky, are prone to loss and are dirty, while my CC/Debit cards offer zero forex fees.

I value my privacy, and I make reasonable efforts to frustrate the algorithms’ models of me, but quit pretending we all have to be Mennonites, and purity testing your community …

Taking the CC out of the sock drawer, at home. That’s an edge case though. That’s not what we are solving for the other 99.99% of the time …

I’m trying to follow… Whatever that reply was. I shop at Amazon for electronics components that otherwise take several days to get to me and aren’t readily available in local brick’n’mortar retail.

I also have bought a lot of adapters, specialty wiring harnesses, and int’l travel gear from AliExpress over the years.

I’m pretty sure that I’m not ‘Trash’ and instead a human person. But you do you, boo, and rationalize away insulting me and everyone else in your community here, because we aren’t doing… Whatever it is you’re doing.

I agree that people have spending problems but you probably have a way to attack your compatriots in this group less…