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  • It definitely is useful, I use it for train tickets, or user QR codes for things such as IKEA, supermarkets, gas stations… It’s quite literally a virtual wallet where you have all your “cards”, but they are QRs.

    This way, for example, you don’t have to install every single app to get the QR code that identifies you in every market. You just paste them into this wallet and you are good to go!

    NFC payments require a transaction platform and these things are only possible with banks or huge, “trusted” companies like Google/Apple.

    Although things might start changing in Europe (for now) with GNU Taler.




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    Just like I am not a fan of Firefox derivatives, I am not a fan of modified ISOs for Windows.

    This is because all the effort put on trust on a big company/community is now gone; now you must trust some unknown random dev.

    Install official Windows and apply trusted tools to clean it up. Or better yet, install Linux. That’s my general advice.









  • Let’s say you have 2 scripts that do some stuff:

    • script A: turns a light pink for 20 seconds and then through a smart speaker you can hear 30 seconds of La Macarena.
    • script B: send 25 notifications to your phone, spaced by 30 seconds, in which each notification is a different letter of an encrypted message.

    If you want those things to happen independently you must parallelize them.

    So think about an automation that at a certain point you want to launch multiple scripts. I’d always parallelize, even if initially these scripts were “instantaneous”, because you might change these and add more complexities in the future.