your gps is too old, my dude
A followup to the oldest usable Garmins of sorts.
I periodically receive communications concerning old and sometimes really old Garmin nuvi navigators since I know a lot about them. Whether I actually answer those communications depends on what's being asked.
If the vibe of the communication is along the lines of, "I'm asking for help, but what I actually want is for you to take time out of your life and fix my problem for me, totally for free", nope, thanks for playing. I'm not your personal free tech support. And you gotta love it when they end it with, "Thanks in advance!" Anybody who says that should be slapped.
Or, if the communication is a wall-o'-text accompanied by several giant attached images (hello, rude), no, not reading that. Sir, I use NeoMutt and I'm not detaching your dumb images, nor will I read the tome you wrote. In instances like that, I will call upon Jesus's lesser known dopey cousin Yeezus, as in, "YEEZUS! The hell is this happy horseshit?!" Yes, I know I'm going straight to hell. See you there.
i remember 2008
2008 is a year I remember because that's when gas prices spiked and stayed that way for a while, and at the time I was driving a stupid truck that averaged around 17-18 MPG.
There's also something else I remember. Going to a gas station to fill the truck, and seeing an older guy at a pump with his little car, a Nissan Versa Note. I felt two things. Regret and jealousy. Regret in that I was driving a stupid truck, and jealous in that I wasn't driving a little car like that other guy had.
I made a promise to myself when I saw that. "Never again."
garmin 2027.10 map update
The latest 2027.10 map update is out for Garmin navigators. Garmin for whatever reason uses the future year for version numbers. No idea why, but whatever. I own a bunch of Garmins both current and old, and all my screens were updated with the exception of two that are over a decade old, which is understandable. If I really wanted to use those two old screens, I could load in alternative OpenStreetMap map data. Some features are lost using OSM data (speed limits, junction view, etc.), but it keeps them working.
Even with the latest maps, there is one thing I know will never be fixed.
fixing geocities animated gifs
I've been using internet since the mid-1990s, so of course I remember Geocities and even had a page there once (which I think was under the "TelevisionCity" category). A very common thing was to use animated GIF images.
Were those images saved somewhere? Yes. Internet Archive has GifCities, which has hundreds of thousands if not millions of those GIFs, all searchable, and in original form...
...and that's the problem.
Many of those old crusty GIFs never had a frame rate set, and I know exactly why.
i live in a world where chicken tenders and fries are 18 bucks
While I totally understand inflation is real and there's no such thing as eating out cheap anymore, the prices of some things legitimately disgust me.
So I'm looking around the online map and thought hey, chicken. I could go for that. With me being me, I see three chicken places that might look good and read the menu for each to see what they offer and what the prices are.
Side note on that: If the restaurant doesn't show a menu WITH prices right up front when I go to look them up online, I don't go there.
I look at the menus, and see the prices.
This is when the disgust happened.
