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Re:In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're re... by tauntz on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @10:34AM (#43762700)
That really depends on where you live I guess.

Random anecdote from Estonia. I noticed around a year ago that I'm getting old - I was the only person in a restaurant that used his card to pay - everybody else used either their watch or phone. Since then, I've also upgraded/downgraded and started to use my phone for payments.. just because I don't wanna be _that_ dinosaur.

It's not always like that though - you still have lots of people using credit cards (or rarely cash) in grocery stores etc, but it does seem much more common for _the elderly_, like me, 40+ :P

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Re:In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're re... by BrandoElFollito on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @03:56PM (#43765656)
It seems though that Estonia is at the bleeding edge of digitalization (at least compared to France where we are in the 17th century in comparison).

I will check myself in May when I spend a week in Tallin :)

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Re:In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're re... by neuralRiot on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @04:31PM (#43765971)
>just because I don't wanna be _that_ dinosaur.

You need to get a little bit older, eventually you’ll find amusing to be the dinosaur surrounded by sheeps.

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