I swapped my daily driver for a cheap dump phone from Amazon and it has been great. The only thing I miss is having a good camera with me to take pics once in a while.

What can I use as a solution to that when I don’t carry a smartphone anymore?

  • OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I guess it depends on your driving habits but I have most of my metro area mapped in my head and I can get roughly from one place to another without directions. For new places I’ll usually look at where it is on a map before I leave and I can navigate mentally. I usually only miss traffic tracking because I’ll get stuck in traffic I could’ve easily avoided with gps apps.

    • SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      I find once you know traffic patterns, picking your own path is generally the same or faster. All the traffic mapping apps tend to send people down the same core routes even if they aren’t actually the best/fastest. Tons of streets are completely ignored by mapping apps.

      For those that do need maps, an old Garmin, or sometimes cars have built in maps that can be updated. Even old maps are generally useful unless you live in a city that redoes their entire road network every 20 years.