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And there was no on line manual

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    Also I used to be able to do this but I’m so old I wouldn’t remember how either.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be possible in my country as all the radio stations switched to digital and phased out analog.

      This thing would be great at picking up cosmic microwave background by that’s about it.

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      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’ve got all my presets set to Azathoth.

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      • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        BBC World service is still broadcasting on AM :)

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    • rjthyen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Pull out the button set a channel and push it in, it’s possible that they need to be lowest to highest frequency, but that could just be the only way we ever did it lol

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      • esc27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I vaguely recall pushing in two buttons at once to get them both to pop out, but maybe that was something else.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I used to have to replace a rubber belt in my cassette player every 6 to 8 months towards the end of my first car. Now I could probably figure it out but there’s a good chance I’d fuck it up a few times first. Time can be a harsh mistress.

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  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Trick question: none of the stations are worth listening to.

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  • tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Kids don’t even use radio. They don’t know what stations even are. Mine don’t even know what live TV is.

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Tell them it’s like a livestream but all the time

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      • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Hey old farts, no hate, but the reason kids these days don’t know how to use old technology is because it’s not practical anymore. We’ve simple moved on to better things as a society and no longer need to bang rocks together to make fire. Now this progressions may not be in all cases good, since it has, in part, atomized our society and divided us against ourselves, but don’t pretend like spin dials were the peak of ergonomic design. Sometimes you gotta admit that just because you grew up with it, doesn’t mean it was better than what we have today.

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Have you used a volume knob, an ipod, bmw idrive or its clones? Spin dials still are the peak of economic design…

      Removal of physical dials in cars is one really good example of progress in tech causing worse design for the sake of cost savings and aesthetics.

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      • headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah cars have been victim to a bunch of over modernizations, I’ll say that, otherwise though I’m generally just trying to say the mentality of “these kids can’t use a ____” is kind of nonsensical.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        This is the example I use to remind myself that not all progress is forward, but it’s still progress.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Of course I can program it. I have no idea how to do so right now, but if you have it to me I could fiddle with it for a few minutes and figure it out.

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    • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Websites used to be like this. I hate modernity.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Doesn’t matter what you do or don’t program.
    When you push any button, you’ll hear right-wing propaganda

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    • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Back in the day our AM stations had local programming. Mostly call in talk shows that covered issues both local and far. The hosts would describe themselves as conservative but they were way more tame than the shit today. Then Rush Limbaugh went national.

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        There is only two flavors of AM radio I’ve ever heard (having been born in 1985):

        • Christian talk

        • 24/7 Traffic reporting

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    • JWayn596@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      NPR is pretty great for left leaning media.

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Spin one of the doodads until the station you wish for is properly locked

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah but how to you lock the station into a specific button

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      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You don’t… Even when it’s “programmed” it’ll still slide a bit short or long & you have to find tune it.

        Source: I’m an old fart

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s been decades, but… you press the button, spin to the station, then release the button?

        Am I remembering correctly or should I check into the home now?

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You don’t need an online manual when there’s an in glovebox manual.

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    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You don’t need a manual at all - you just push the buttons in farther than usual.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        How did you know without the manual? I used to read the manual cover to cover many times because what else are you going to do on a car ride?

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      • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I had to download a PDF manual of my most recent car because I actually like knowing how my car works.

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When I was a kid, I got pissed at my dad for something and reset all the stations, thinking it would throw him for a loop. He noticed what I had done almost immediately, fixed them all in about 5-10 seconds and looked at me like I was stupid.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Now reset his router and see if he can get reconnected in < 30 seconds LOL

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Manual? Kids today would probably need a YouTube tutorial.

    “Hey scuzbits! It’s me, Scuz! Today on ‘old ass cars’ we are looking at how to program this OLD ASS car radio. But first SMASH that subscribe button and ring the bell!”

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “And now to our sponsor NordVPN. You want to listen to a station but the signal is too weak?”

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    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean back when youtube loaded quickly and wasn’t chock full of spammy ads and self promotion, this was a lot more convenient for a lot of things than trying to find a text tutorial (with good pictures if you were lucky). Some things id definitely rather have the instructions there on the page where i can refer back and check them, but for a lot of quick tasks it was way simpler to just search on youtube and watch a 30 second video of someone doing it. These days that 30 second video would be 10+ minutes with multiple ads and sponsor call outs though.

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  • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen…well I was gonna say all day, but I just read about florida sex ed not teaching sex ed and there are levels.

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  • Changer098@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Bro you can just Google it, it’s alright to ask for help

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    my library had manuals for most common car makes and models. couldn’t check em out, but could photocopy the pages you need.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It literally works the same as it does now. At least, to the user. The differences are entirely behind the scenes and wouldn’t matter. 🤦‍♂️

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    MILLENNIALS BAD

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    • terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Millennials probably the last generation that will remember (vaguely at least) things like vcr’s, cassette/cd-dvd and floppy disks. Millennials were positioned in an in-between time of rapid tech advancement.

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      • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Millennials doesn’t mean kids alove during the turn of the millennium to old fucks. It just means “kids these days”

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  • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A was never able to do it correctly :(

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  • ma1w4re@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Boomers being boomers

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  • Binette@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I had to do that yesterday cause the power went out and my dad wanted to use the radio, but couldn’t find the station. Got it the first try 😚

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