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I ran graphene on a Pixel 4A 5G for a while until that phone inexplicably died.
I now have a Pixel 8 Pro, and I haven’t installed Graphene on it. Why? Google wallet.
That shit is so convenient. That I can leave my own wallet at home and tap to get on transit, tap my work’s virtual credit card, etc is holding me back from a second install.
I have a p8p as well and am a sucker for contactless pay.
I have a samsung android watch which costs like $50 second hand to get around the wallet not working on graphene.
I dont really care anymore about gathered metadata that much. I was more black and white earlier, but nowadays I just try to minimize the cloudification instead of being completely against it.
I choose my battles, and being against google wallet isnt really worth some effort from my side.
I ran graphene on a Pixel 4A 5G for a while until that phone inexplicably died.
I now have a Pixel 8 Pro, and I haven’t installed Graphene on it. Why? Google wallet.
That shit is so convenient. That I can leave my own wallet at home and tap to get on transit, tap my work’s virtual credit card, etc is holding me back from a second install.
“I’d rather give up all of my data to Google so that I don’t have to… have the awful burden of carrying a wallet” lol
I just carry physical cards. I don’t really understand this “every step away from google must be painless” attitude.
No one said it did? It’s a service that I find great value in, and one that I had given up for a time and enjoy having access to again.
Everyone has their limit, this one is presently mine.
Sure, it is a step away that carries friction for me.
But you’re speaking in absolutes and blanketing “every step”.
I’ve taken many steps away from Google that were not “painless”.
Looks like they have a link talking about this, and someone commented that they use a service mentioned for contactless payments.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/contactless-payments-with-grapheneos/
I haven’t reviewed this myself as it’s not a concern for me.
Thanks, I had seen this but Curve is UK specific.
It’s in the whole EU as far as I know.
Ah fair. All I get is “not available in my region”.
I have a p8p as well and am a sucker for contactless pay.
I have a samsung android watch which costs like $50 second hand to get around the wallet not working on graphene.
I dont really care anymore about gathered metadata that much. I was more black and white earlier, but nowadays I just try to minimize the cloudification instead of being completely against it.
I choose my battles, and being against google wallet isnt really worth some effort from my side.
Oh, that’s a hot tip. I didn’t know the watches could handle tap to pay independent of the phone.
… Though I’m awaiting a new pebble, not sure I’d like to dual wield watches.