And there was no on line manual
Submitted 5 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 5 months ago
paultimate14@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Trick question: none of the stations are worth listening to.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Kids don’t even use radio. They don’t know what stations even are. Mine don’t even know what live TV is.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Tell them it’s like a livestream but all the time
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months 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.
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 months 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.
headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is the example I use to remind myself that not all progress is forward, but it’s still progress.
grue@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
themaninblack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Websites used to be like this. I hate modernity.
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
Doesn’t matter what you do or don’t program.
When you push any button, you’ll hear right-wing propagandaHikermick@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
There is only two flavors of AM radio I’ve ever heard (having been born in 1985):
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Christian talk
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24/7 Traffic reporting
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JWayn596@lemmy.world 5 months ago
NPR is pretty great for left leaning media.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Spin one of the doodads until the station you wish for is properly locked
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah but how to you lock the station into a specific button
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 months 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
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 months 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?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You don’t need an online manual when there’s an in glovebox manual.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 months ago
You don’t need a manual at all - you just push the buttons in farther than usual.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 months 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?
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 months ago
I had to download a PDF manual of my most recent car because I actually like knowing how my car works.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 months 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.
cm0002@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Now reset his router and see if he can get reconnected in < 30 seconds LOL
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 months 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!”
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
“And now to our sponsor NordVPN. You want to listen to a station but the signal is too weak?”
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months 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.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Changer098@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Bro you can just Google it, it’s alright to ask for help
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
my library had manuals for most common car makes and models. couldn’t check em out, but could photocopy the pages you need.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months 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. 🤦♂️
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
MILLENNIALS BAD
terminhell@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 months ago
Millennials doesn’t mean kids alove during the turn of the millennium to old fucks. It just means “kids these days”
pseudo@jlai.lu 5 months ago
A was never able to do it correctly :(
ma1w4re@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Boomers being boomers
Binette@lemmy.ml 5 months 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 😚
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve got all my presets set to Azathoth.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 5 months ago
BBC World service is still broadcasting on AM :)
rjthyen@lemm.ee 5 months 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
esc27@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I vaguely recall pushing in two buttons at once to get them both to pop out, but maybe that was something else.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months 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.