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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • Just to add to the tire wear conversation: My winter tires have lasted 5 seasons (from early October-late April), and are finally worn enough for the tire shop to tell me this was the last season for them, and I drive ~140km/day.

    My summers on the otherhand were purchased from a dealership and only lasted 3 seasons (and were showing some pretty bad wear at that). New ones will be going on their second season next month, hopefully they last longer than that!

    This is on a PHEV ford escape.

















  • The apps that enable tap-for-payment ask your bank for permission and some security details to activate using cards for NFC.

    In North America, banks won’t give that permission/security info to any android app but google pay, and only if the play store verification thing says the OS is fully secure - and google pretends grapheneos doesn’t hit those security metrics.

    So yes, NFC is how tap-for-payment works, but unless NA banks implement it themselves, or trust a 3rd party that isn’t google to implement it, grapheneos phones are blocked from using the tap-for-payment functionality.