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

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

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      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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    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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      Have you used a volume knob, an ipod, bmw idrive or its clones? Spin dials still are the peak of ergonomic 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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        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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          Agreed 😅 I was only refuting the sub point about knobs, as thats a pet peeve of mine 😅

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    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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        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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          You don’t…

          You absolutely…

          Even when it’s “programmed” it’ll still slide a bit short or long & you have to find tune it.

          OK yeah fair. Especially if you play with the buttons a lot like trying to press them both at the same time.

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        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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    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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      You don’t need a manual at all - you just push the buttons in farther than usual, or pull them out instead of in depending upon the model.

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        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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            If you didn’t already know that was the way to set the station you’d get a scolding from your parent. “Stop messing with it or you will break it!”

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    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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    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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      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.