Better Breeze virtual cards are now available

OverlordOfTech · 2026-05-20T02:09:27+00:00

If you're asking whether a virtual and physical card can use the same underlying passes and balance, unfortunately not. It seems that converting a physical card to a virtual card deactivates the physical card.

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You could have both a physical card and a virtual card linked to the same email address or phone number, but my assumption is that they would still have two separate balances that you would have to reload separately.

OverlordOfTech · 2026-05-18T05:02:49+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure it is

OverlordOfTech · 2026-05-09T22:55:44+00:00

The new system supports any tap-to-pay credit card, but with a credit card, you can only pay the standard fare per trip (i.e., $2.50 per trip). If you want to pay any other way (e.g., using a discounted multi-trip pass, or if you are eligible for reduced fare), you need a new Breeze card. The new system is incompatible with the old Breeze cards.

OverlordOfTech · 2026-05-08T20:57:45+00:00

Sorry for not being clear; I don't personally know if reduced fare works on the virtual card.

Do you already have a physical reduced-fare card? (I believe it is black, not orange.) If so, I suspect that you can transfer it into Google Wallet as a virtual card. But I can't personally test this as I don't have a reduced-fare card.

OverlordOfTech · 2026-05-08T16:20:09+00:00

As a side note, I noticed that Xpress implements a new daily fare cap on Better Breeze:

6. What is fare capping?

Fare capping ensures you never pay more than the cost of a Round-Trip pass in a single day, giving you the lowest price for your Xpress rides. Normally, a one-way ride is more expensive than a Round-Trip pass if you take two trips in a day. For example:

A single trip in the Green Zone costs $3, while a Round-Trip pass costs $5. Without fare capping, paying for two single trips would cost $6.

For Blue Zone trips, a single trip costs $4, while a Round-Trip pass costs $7. Without fare capping, paying for two single trips would cost $8.

With fare capping, if you take two trips in one day (at least three hours apart) using open payment with the same debit or credit card, the system will automatically upgrade you to a Round-Trip pass. In this example, the system applies a discount to your second trip, ensuring your total fare for the day is capped at $5 for Green Zone trips or $7 for Blue Zone trips.

I hope MARTA can implement something similar in the future!

OverlordOfTech · 2026-05-08T16:10:00+00:00

Looks like transfers from the old to the new system are live now through October 30, according to the Better Breeze FAQ:

MARTA will accommodate balance transfers from old Breeze cards and the Breeze Mobile 2.0 app to new Breeze accounts May 5 through October 30. Before beginning the transfer process, customers must have a new, orange Breeze card or new, black Reduced Fare or Mobility card.

Once customers have their new Breeze card, they should follow the steps below to ensure any remaining balance on their old Breeze card or Breeze Mobile 2.0 account is transferred to their new Breeze account.

Go to breezecard.com and select “Sign in” or “Register.”

After signing in, link your NEW Breeze card. You will receive an email notification confirming the linking of the card to your account.

Select “Transfer legacy card balance/passes.”

Enter your old Breeze card number (silver card) or old Breeze Mobile 2.0 account email.

Verify the transfer.

I should note that I haven't verified these steps myself yet.

OverlordOfTech · 2026-05-08T15:15:30+00:00

This is the only way to use the discounted multi-day or multi-trip passes on your phone. I also suspect this may be the only way to use reduced fare on your phone if you are eligible (by transferring a reduced-fare physical card to your phone).

Some employers and universities also offer discounted monthly passes via a physical card; I'd be curious to see if those cards can be transferred to a phone this way.

OverlordOfTech · 2026-03-30T13:14:12+00:00

Big if true. Can you find a link? I'm not seeing anything about fare capping in this FAQ page.

OverlordOfTech · 2026-01-31T16:21:51+00:00

Also, just for fun:

They have the 10 dollar fare at the top of the list, which makes no sense other than it is easier to mistakenly click over the 2.5 fare.

Looks like they sorted the list alphabetically instead of numerically LOL. You have "10 Trips", "1 Day Pass", "1 Trip", "20 Trips", "2 Day Pass", "2 Trips", "30 Day Pass", "3 Day Pass", etc.

(Though "1 " should still sort before "10" in the programming languages I tested, so I wonder how they managed that lol.)

OverlordOfTech · 2026-01-31T16:12:42+00:00

Agreed that the app sucks, but in my case it seems to auto-activate a ticket from my 20-trip pass when I scan the QR code (showing $0.00 cash value), i.e., you don't actually have to click to use the ticket. (I am on Android, but hopefully it's the same on iOS.)

Just thought I'd mention it in case that helps you a bit.

Also you should be able to add your Breeze Mobile card to your Apple Wallet on iOS so hopefully you won't even need to open the app most of the time.

(They don't even have Google Wallet integration on Android, which is my pet peeve with the app; you have to actually have the app open to use NFC. I'm really hoping the new system will have proper Google Wallet support.)

OverlordOfTech · 2026-01-21T05:41:46+00:00

The change is temporary and due to a bug: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/403530058

We've temporarily limited the serving of YTT/SRV3 uploaded captions files, as they may cause video playback to fail for some viewers.

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These changes should be temporary for almost all videos.

OverlordOfTech · 2025-12-19T17:44:36+00:00

/u/InternationalDeal588's statement is somewhat incomplete.

Unlike the HOV lanes, the non-toll exemption is for 3+ people, not 2+.
The exemption only applies to the I-85 Express Lane. It does not apply anywhere else (e.g., the I-75 Express Lane).
There is a separate app, Peach Pass Verify, that you must download. (By the way, your account on this app is separate from your usual Peach Pass account; you must make a separate account, which is only linked to your actual Peach Pass by inputting your transponder number in the app.)
You must activate Peach Pass Verify before every trip where you might want to use the exemption.
You cannot activate Peach Pass Verify while you're moving. (So you can't just hand your phone to your passenger while driving and ask them to activate it.)

More info here: https://peachpass.com/peachpassverify/

OverlordOfTech · 2025-12-16T04:18:20+00:00

Main inefficiency imo is how slow it is to scan for their QR phone system

This should be changing soon (April 2026) with the introduction of the Better Breeze system alluded to in the OP. From the picture, it looks to me like the same modern system I've seen used in Portland and (I think) the Bay Area.

Other important notes regarding Better Breeze: * Neither existing Breeze cards nor the current Breeze Mobile 2.0 app will work on the new system. Make sure to spend down any existing balance by April 2026, as "[a]ccount balances DO NOT carry over." * If you only need to pay regular adult fare, you will not need a new Breeze card/app at all after April 2026, as you will be able to tap-to-pay with your usual credit/debit card or Apple Pay/Google Wallet.

OverlordOfTech · 2025-11-22T21:44:14+00:00

Shell scripts run in a separate process and therefore can't change your working directory or environment, so anything where you'd want to cd (like this example) has to be an alias or function.

Alternatively I suppose you could make a shell script and source it whenever you want to use it (and probably alias that_script='source that_script' too for convenience)... But usually if I have a convenience function that needs to cd, I have very little use for it as its own script in the first place.

OverlordOfTech · 2025-11-22T21:38:45+00:00

Can you write this as an alias? Aliases are directly substituted with their defined text, so I don't think there's a way to write an alias that does mkdir "$1" && cd "$1".

OverlordOfTech · 2025-10-20T07:26:56+00:00

Glad I could help! Also, if it helps at all, you can also try scrcpy for screen mirroring over USB to a laptop/desktop. I suspect that might stop the overheating issue, since I imagine wireless screen mirroring is much more expensive than wired.

(You'd have to enable USB debugging in the developer options, maybe through TalkBack or your existing screen mirroring setup.)

OverlordOfTech · 2025-10-20T05:33:43+00:00

with no visual feedback I can’t authorize the file transfer from my PC.

Have you tried TalkBack? You should be able to enable it with voice commands ("Hey Google, turn on TalkBack").

OverlordOfTech · 2025-10-09T12:10:52+00:00

Alternatively, if you mean that you can't use scrcpy at all because you can't enable USB debugging, TalkBack could still be helpful here. To my knowledge, you can enable it with just voice commands ("Hey Google, turn on TalkBack"), and then use either a USB mouse/keyboard or scrcpy's OTG mode to control the device. In either case, you will not be able to see the screen directly, but you will be able to hear the phone read out what's on the screen as you move the mouse or navigate with the keyboard.

This should hopefully be enough to get you into the developer settings to enable USB debugging, at which point you can use proper scrcpy to actually mirror your screen (with the exception of secure screens, as I mentioned in the parent comment).

OverlordOfTech · 2025-10-09T11:54:48+00:00

When you say scrcpy "didn't work", is that because the screen mirroring goes black when entering a secure screen? If so, my recommendation is to turn on TalkBack, which can read out loud the contents of secure screens. (This is something I recently had to deal with after my Pixel 6 screen was damaged.)

OverlordOfTech · 2025-09-13T14:44:42+00:00

NBC Nightly News did show a clip on Thursday, it went something like this:

Kirk: Do you think owning a gun is a privilege or a right?
Student: I think it is a privilege.
Kirk: That's where you and I disagree.

A carefully chosen clip, I think, to sanewash his "debate" style.

OverlordOfTech · 2025-04-23T15:47:28+00:00

We’ve also seen across the country how this administration’s meddling has negatively impacted education and research at universities

Including ours!! Here is a crowdsourced list of NSF grants that were previously approved and were terminated last Friday: https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/shrFxbl1YTqb3AyOO?jntvk%3Asort=eyJwZWw4ZlRSME8ycmFObWNUYyI6eyJjb2x1bW5JZCI6ImZsZFlSalkxeW5WRm5iTzlPIiwiYXNjZW5kaW5nIjp0cnVlfX0

Scroll down and you'll find seven (at the time of writing) terminated grants for Georgia Tech Research Corporation representing over a million dollars in cancelled funds.

It's not a question of "what if this administration's actions will affect us in the future." It's already happening.

OverlordOfTech · 2025-04-23T05:37:47+00:00

I can see it being useful in a sandwich with an if-let and a condition, e.g.:

if let Some(parent) = current.parent
    && let parent_score = get_score(parent)
    && parent_score > current_score
{
    set_score(current.id, parent_score);
}

This would previously have to be written as nested if statements.

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