Is this a 16th-century smartphone?

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• lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t use it as a phone, so yes

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OpenSource, no ads, nor tracking or logging, anonymous. no account needed, but not a Phone

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like a flip book made of gold. Flip those pages fast enough and it animated the stars moving across the sky!

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I suspect it’s brass or just gold plated. Gold on it’s own would not be particularly durable. Unless this was meant to be like those spinny clocks grandpa had on his window sill- purely decorative.

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I suspect it’s a steampunk necronomicon.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    50kg flip book

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    • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d a page comes loose it could chip your spectacles.

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• amio@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the term "PDA" dates back to about then.

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personal …Dubious(…?) Assistant?

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Position determinating assistant

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How big is this thing? I have no sense of scale here.

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  • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Perhaps we could re-choreograph the dance so it wouldn’t be in danger of being knocked over?”

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    • jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For others that also didn’t know what this means: norselandsrock.com/stonehenge-spinal-tap/

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought I had volvelles in high school, but it just turned out to be a cold.

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are the blank pages for? Are you supposed to engrave your notes on them?

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  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My guess would be to add area specific star patterns to make local traveling easier.

    Like having a detail specific map for each specific point of interest.

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  • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was wondering that myself!

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• ItzzMe@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder how the lunar volvelles worked

  Sounds like it’s based on the moon obviously, so what happens if it’s below the horizon or in the new moon phase?

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• MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  even if it folds up a bit it still looks really bulky.

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  • ech@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude, it’s technology from 500+ years ago. Give 'em a break

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