• guyrocket@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    41
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    If you ever feel your job is useless, remember, someone somewhere is installing turn signals in BMWs.

    • ccunix@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Fake news, I used the indicator in my X1 this morning.

      To my surprise it works! Must be that quality German engineering

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        16
        ·
        1 year ago

        Meh, not so good as you might think. I checked on mine and at first it worked but then it didn’t, then it worked again and again it didn’t and so on. Must be some lose cables or something.

        • ccunix@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          It was a joke actually. In all seriousness I am actually really good with my indicators, especially as I have 2 sons who have either recently got their license or are working towards it. They are more than happy to point out even the slightest error.

  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    It was more like a clip to put on your belt so you could show off to everyone you had a mobile phone.

    • EdanGrey
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      Somehow I managed to break two of them, feel like I must have a superpower!

      • 1984@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Hehe yeah… Well I agree, they werent indestructible or anything but remember the first phones with glass screens we got. So many smashed screens. Now I think they are pretty sturdy also with all the gorilla glass stuff etc.

        • Zerush@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          1 year ago

          Also the Battery of the old Nokias which had enough charge for almost a week in use.

            • Zerush@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              With less than a Gameboy as Computer they reached the Moon in the 69. The old Nokias don’t had Internet, but better sounds in calls and better coverage than current Smartphones. You also could send and receive message, this was enough for the normal use of a Phone. Now you have Internet for loose your time in Social networks and play Candy Crush, instead to use an Computer where this is much more confortable, instead of creating Smombies in the streets, depending on small screens without seeing where they go.

          • 1984@lemmy.today
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Yup it was amazing. If someone makes a phone like this today with today’s batteries…I assume it would last a month on a single charge.

            • emergencyfood
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              The 3310 was re-released around 2017. Battery life was ~2 weeks when I bought it. The original battery died a couple of years ago and I had to get a locally made one. This only lasts a few days.

              • 1984@lemmy.today
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                1 year ago

                Maybe once we get tired enough of big tech, we go back to these kind of phones. Would probably bring us back into reality and make us realize how dependent we are on them now.

          • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            If you have the same screen as a pocket calculator and your CPU only runs at a couple Mhz, then yeah you can make a battery last a while. People forget that the phones we carry around now are more powerful than the most powerful gaming computers that existed when this phone was popular.

            • Zerush@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              That’s correct, but how do 90% of people use this “computer” that cost them as much as a desktop PC? Correct, chatting on Facebook, Whatsapp, taking selfies, some clips on TikTok, playing CandyCrushes and little else, which results that the power that these sneaks have is more a commercial argument than something really useful, all this can be done with the smartphone on sale for 80 bucks. Oh yes, you can also make calls, if the battery still has enough charge when you need it. They are spyware from large corporations that use it to track your every move and action that everyone willingly carries in their pockets, or has it in front of their faces while crossing the street.

    • Butters@lemmywinks.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      OP’s pic isn’t even the original brick Nokia.

      I remember like 25 years ago, getting into some argument with my girlfriend on the phone. After we hung up, I spiked that phone on my office floor, it bounced back up like four feet in the air. I chipped the corner of that bigass sliding battery, but the phone still worked. Not sure my iPhone would handle that. Though they seem pretty durable, I don’t want to test mine like that.