For me digital wallet is a bit more convenient than using my real wallet, but not essential. I have one credit card that I use all the time, but it seems my bank hasn’t bothered to make it work with NFC payments yet for some reason, but it works with Google Wallet so that’s nice.

I also always keep my wallet with credit cards and a little bit of cash as a backup. One time I was out at a bar and there was a power outage. They were still serving drinks, but instantly all transactions switched to cash only. I think it makes a lot of sense to have backup options.

The opposite can be good too – your phone as a backup just in case you forget your wallet.

It’s probably not entirely been worth the effort to stay up to date with changes whenever Google breaks things. At some point I may stop. I guess one immediate value has been that watching things unfold has hastened the souring of my view on Google. I am now frequently looking for ways to avoid their ecosystem, and avoid big companies / non open source in general. I’m far from ready to leave the ecosystem on every front. But at the very least, I would never recommend a Google product in my professional life at this point, at least not without careful planning of an exit strategy.

I loved The Longest Journey series. Beautiful games. Not without flaws, but beautiful and thoughtfully written.

Furthermore, when it lands on PC it will likely be an Epic exclusive. I’m not buying at that point either because I really disapprove of timed exclusivity. I would rather pirate at that point, TBH.

To be fair, Microsoft is one of the most aggressive at checking for root on Android devices. They’re not the good guys here.

1. Install Kitsune Mask (just like Magisk install) https://huskydg.github.io/magisk-files/

2. Install PIF Next. It will automatically download new device fingerprints as Google bans old ones https://github.com/daboynb/PlayIntegrityNEXT

3. Google, banks, Microsoft, whoever else is aggressively checking for root. Please consider to eat my entire asshole. Thank you.

Edit: nvm I’m bad at reading, I missed that you couldn’t even root your phone.

Google and the banks can eat my whole asshole.

Shazbot

This is the one I use.

I think it’s a pretty fair comparison because in order to get the lifespan that I expect out of my hardware (3-5+ years), on Android I need to install a custom ROM just to get security updates.

Meanwhile Apple is still publishing updates for devices even 10 years old sometimes.

Yes, I know Google is starting to commit to 5 years of security updates, but if you bought a Pixel phone last year (like I did) then there’s a decent chance that yours still only came with 3 years of updates. So if you want a similar level of service then you end up having to do a lot of work yourself to make it happen.