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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's what half this subforum is called at work. it's true, but you shouldn't say it
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's what half this subforum is called at work. dsyp
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's what half this subforum is called at work. lol
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Jul 19, 2023 03:17
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I just remembered the Yo app getting funding
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Jul 20, 2023 04:17
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didnt the yo app have a setting to yo at you every time israel bombed palestine or was it the other way?
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:didnt the yo app have a setting to yo at you every time israel bombed palestine or was it the other way? the other way. every time you yo'd israel would bomb palestine
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Jul 20, 2023 05:05
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free kevin! ...from his wretched earthly meat-shell 
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FMguru posted:free kevin! pancreatic, geez. that one's usually a death sentence. 
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Jul 20, 2023 06:36
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RIP Kevin
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Jul 20, 2023 16:23
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not that funy imo
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git apologist posted:not that funy imo lol glad i wasn't the only one thinking this
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Beve Stuscemi posted:RIP Kevin the guy from the "Party Time" video died? 
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Jul 21, 2023 10:11
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this displeasures the kevin
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Jul 21, 2023 11:36
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RIP Kevin. I highly recommend reading his books if you haven't, they're amazing.
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https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1683625570637053954
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Jul 25, 2023 22:50
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Don’t know if it is tech per se but in the 90s you could get a “trip tik” from CAA if you waited a week that was a flip book with turn by turn directions for where you were going. First co-op wound up being at the company that did all their software, feel like that could have been a huge thing if they took it further. also everything ran off pick/pickbasic (other great old tech poo poo was my main job that semester was building a javabean to interface with their systems to process credit cards, again super forward thinking but never taken further looooool)
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Also the guy that did most of the work behind them was super chill and had a model train themed ice cream place out of an old caboose as a side business. Jeff if you’re reading this you know who you are and I hope you’re doing well (please don’t doxx me)
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Jul 26, 2023 00:31
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triptiks were a thing my dad was big on - probably because it gave me and my brother something to do on the 1200 mile trips to my grandparents - in the early 90s. we got them from AAA, but same idea, it was a comb-bound vertical orientation, maybe 10 inches long by two and a half wide, strip of maps showing all the turns you’d need on the highways plus stops and points of interest. i loved those things as a kid, and fast forward to being about 30 and learning a triptych was an art thing from the two art history people i know as an adult.
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Jul 26, 2023 04:20
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nurrwick posted:triptiks were a thing my dad was big on - probably because it gave me and my brother something to do on the 1200 mile trips to my grandparents - in the early 90s. we got them from AAA, but same idea, it was a comb-bound vertical orientation, maybe 10 inches long by two and a half wide, strip of maps showing all the turns you’d need on the highways plus stops and points of interest. i loved those things as a kid, and fast forward to being about 30 and learning a triptych was an art thing from the two art history people i know as an adult. I learned what a triptych was when I was like six, from a Mickey Mouse story in Donald Duck's Pocketbook. I think you needed to combine the lost pieces to get a treasure map that lead to a jewel fountain. I believe not all triptychs have treasure maps.
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Jul 26, 2023 04:31
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oh they all definitely have maps but sometimes the treasure is the friends you made along the way and also but stuff in hell
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Jul 26, 2023 05:45
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triptiks ruled and honestly i would still use them today if i could. Phones run out of juice and fall off network.
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Jul 26, 2023 10:40
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I print out Google maps instructions. Phones are nowhere near reliable enough, especially in Winter.
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Jul 26, 2023 10:41
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i use an app called “here” that lets u download maps locally, which solves a majority of the problems but overall id still rather have triptiks i wonder if someone has an app that makes them
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Jul 26, 2023 10:46
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I used to use here when I had a nokia
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Jul 26, 2023 12:00
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Doesn't solve rhe "phone stops working/responding in the cold" thing tho
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Jul 26, 2023 12:01
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i just memorize the route before leaving
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Jul 26, 2023 13:23
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google maps lets you download the maps to your local device in case you have no service, you nerds
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rotor posted:triptiks ruled and honestly i would still use them today if i could. Phones run out of juice and fall off network. I would have got totally lost in the dark in Italy (which was not big on lights anywhere it seems though now it's on fire maybe that's solved) if it wasn't for my wife having one of those big Microsoft Nokia phones because those let you preload maps and use GPS without incurring data charges so we could figure out where the gently caress we were at one point we got diverted off the toll road through some tiny villages and just had to follow other cars and hope we got back on it. We did and then they charged us for the toll again, the fuckers.
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Jul 26, 2023 13:35
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not that all these other things aren’t worthwhile but don’t both apple and google maps let you cache whatever you want these days
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turns out aaa/caa will still do printed triptiks, at least according to the mid-atlantic chapter's site not that i'm a member or can look up how much it would cost to get them printed. they do prepare digital versions, too, though it looks like they're promoted as 'online' which probably doesn't do a whole lot to get them to you in the middle of nowhere outside cell network range
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Jul 26, 2023 16:29
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mediaphage posted:not that all these other things aren’t worthwhile but don’t both apple and google maps let you cache whatever you want these days yeah. with google maps you can select an area you want to save, i'm not sure how apple maps does it but i know they added the feature
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Beve Stuscemi posted:google maps lets you download the maps to your local device in case you have no service, you nerds ios 17 maos is adding it, too Beeftweeter posted:yeah. with google maps you can select an area you want to save, i'm not sure how apple maps does it but i know they added the feature it'll work the same way, which is nice
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i remember how cool it was using openstreetmap on my n800 because it'd cache the route with a definable radius
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trilljester posted:Hot City was really awesome back in the day. I spent wayyyy too many hours on there. holy poo poo what was your handle? I was Leperflesh, I assume you remember me because I was extremely important and popular e. wait are you Jester?
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i used to always have the atlas in the passenger seat and help navigate with my dad on trips because my mom didn't like reading maps.
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Mr. Nice! posted:i used to always have the atlas in the passenger seat and help navigate with my dad on trips because my mom didn't like reading maps. yep same, my dad would have the route highlighted and i'd call out the exits and mile markers. i think it made traveling more interesting because you had to, like, look at the stuff around you instead of just waiting for the computer to say take the next exit.
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Elder Postsman posted:yep same, my dad would have the route highlighted and i'd call out the exits and mile markers. i think it made traveling more interesting because you had to, like, look at the stuff around you instead of just waiting for the computer to say take the next exit. i like driving without the gps as much as possible because then I don't get tunnel vision on just driving forward and following directions. i like to look around and learn so that i better remember on future trips.
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Jul 26, 2023 18:28
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these were a thing in the 20s and 30s get a little printed scroll to load into your Drivin' Watch and advance it as you hit each turn and highway
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man I loved maps up to the point of learning orienteering
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and yeah i hate nav. i'd rather learn which roads in town are busy and when, and do a "ok, down sheridan, cut across on evans...santa fe is gonna be crazy rn so i'll take this side street" mental review of my drive. I wish there was an apple navigation option to "Sorta get me aimed in the right direction and then shut up" option. Like i don't need you to nav me all the way back to my exact side street, just point me the correct way and get me on an artery and i'm good from there
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