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What common skill do you not have? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/ask@piefed.social

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not modern times for me. I had to concentrate to discern my left from right since well before the internet. Took a lot of practice to get close to instinctual.

I have a compass, usually on a handmade wrist band, in all my outdoor bags, plus a Casio with a compass. Before I got the watch, I usually had redundant physical compasses. Of course there's a compass on my phone as well. :)

Went on a new trail yesterday I hadn't tried because I thought it went a couple of blocks and came out in another neighborhood. After walking a mile I checked Google Maps and I was traveling straight into hundreds of acres of nothing. Didn't even realize I was headed east and the lowering sun was right behind me!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

By "thank you, modern times" I don't mean those tools caused my issue; I mean I'd get genuinely lost without them. Even within my city.

After walking a mile I checked Google Maps and I was traveling straight into hundreds of acres of nothing. Didn’t even realize I was headed east and the lowering sun was right behind me!

...oopsie. It's great you actually checked it after just a single mile!