Paper maps are tough to come by, but, if you’re driving, at least, road signs are extremely helpful. Might make a wrong turn or two but you’ll figure it out. And if you’re going by foot, memorize your directions, take note of things you pass, and carry a compass. If the compass fails, at least you’ll have memory to go off of. And you can always trust the stars when you can see them.
USGS still published them. Local ranger stations in national parks will still sell section topographical maps, and digital copies of same (essentially just pictures of the maps) are free to download.
These are mostly useful for wilderness use but will generally cover urban areas as well. They also often contain trails and forest back roads that don't appear on Google/Apple.
Still use a candy bar phone, too. Never "upgraded" to all that smart nonsense.
I sit in front of a real computer all day. I don't also need a limited pseudo computer the size of a brick in my pocket. I like to just leave it all behind when I leave the house.
It's a computer that's harder to use, performs worse, is a walled garden where some corporation determines what you're allowed to do, many cost more than a desktop PC and the app ecosystem is a cancerous mess of censorship, ads and microtransactions.
I have the real thing. I don't need a watered down copy.
A smartphone isn’t supposed to be a replacement for a home PC, it allows me the convenience to do everything I would reasonably want to do on a PC from a plane, uber, the front seat of my car, at seconds notice with a device that literally fits in my pocket.
The advantages FAR outweigh any perceived disadvantage.
Fun fact: That TI-89, thanks to 20 years of being the same price, is now cycle for cycle one of the most expensive computational devices on the planet -- by a wide margin.
Pretty much all of the TI graphing calculators should cost about $20 these days.
Yeah, they are Z80 based. Twenty years of tech advancement should have crashed the price to almost nothing -- only reason it hasn't is TI effectively has a monopoly due to being embedded in textbooks and test requirements.
I work with a lot of IT guys for my job. Nearly all of them still rocking old school watches, flip phones and you'll get an ear full of security info if you ask about it.
Can confirm. Got two degrees in IT and Networking.
I use a disposable candybar phone with no internet and no camera.
Do yourselves a favor, get rid of your "smart phone", uninstall blue tooth.
Turn off all automatic updates and actually read and choose what's getting installed on your computer.
Stop being so reliant on GPS and start memorizing roads. And for goodness sakes, learn math and stop relying on calculators.
Your brain is amazing; use it.
Wait, the calculators are working against us too?
Even the fucking abacus is suspect at this point.
Mine tried to fuck me in the ass last weekend. I got drunk, woke up, and could only count to 4 on that dam thing.
Fucking Chinese, am I right?
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Joking aside, learn to use an abacus and a slide rule, and teach your kids to do the same.
Even if you never use them as tools, they impart intuition that you won't get any other way.
The abacus is a Chinese product after all. Instant sus.
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"always have been"
I have my issues with not using calculators being a student because i dont want to do integrals by hand
Wait until you learn Laplace and Fourier transforms and realize 95% of Caclulus can be reduced to simple Algebra. :mind blown:
Didn’t you know math is racist these days?
Paper maps are harder to come by now, at least in my area. So I look as I travel.
Thomas Bros still makes great maps.
Paper maps are tough to come by, but, if you’re driving, at least, road signs are extremely helpful. Might make a wrong turn or two but you’ll figure it out. And if you’re going by foot, memorize your directions, take note of things you pass, and carry a compass. If the compass fails, at least you’ll have memory to go off of. And you can always trust the stars when you can see them.
USGS still published them. Local ranger stations in national parks will still sell section topographical maps, and digital copies of same (essentially just pictures of the maps) are free to download.
These are mostly useful for wilderness use but will generally cover urban areas as well. They also often contain trails and forest back roads that don't appear on Google/Apple.
Truck stops still had road atlases last time I looked.
Still use a candy bar phone, too. Never "upgraded" to all that smart nonsense.
I sit in front of a real computer all day. I don't also need a limited pseudo computer the size of a brick in my pocket. I like to just leave it all behind when I leave the house.
Counter argument: I gain more from the use of a smart phone than it can harm me in any reasonable realm of likelihood.
This sounds like a boomer argument akin to leftists decrying “climate change”
It' doesn't "harm" me. It's just useless to me.
It's a computer that's harder to use, performs worse, is a walled garden where some corporation determines what you're allowed to do, many cost more than a desktop PC and the app ecosystem is a cancerous mess of censorship, ads and microtransactions.
I have the real thing. I don't need a watered down copy.
A smartphone isn’t supposed to be a replacement for a home PC, it allows me the convenience to do everything I would reasonably want to do on a PC from a plane, uber, the front seat of my car, at seconds notice with a device that literally fits in my pocket.
The advantages FAR outweigh any perceived disadvantage.
The TI-89 that's sat within proximity of my desk for like 20 years says fuck off
Fun fact: That TI-89, thanks to 20 years of being the same price, is now cycle for cycle one of the most expensive computational devices on the planet -- by a wide margin.
Sure it's not the TI-83+? I think they're still being issued in schools and still based on a Z80 core.
Pretty much all of the TI graphing calculators should cost about $20 these days.
Yeah, they are Z80 based. Twenty years of tech advancement should have crashed the price to almost nothing -- only reason it hasn't is TI effectively has a monopoly due to being embedded in textbooks and test requirements.
I work with a lot of IT guys for my job. Nearly all of them still rocking old school watches, flip phones and you'll get an ear full of security info if you ask about it.
They are right.