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streetlamp post with cardinal directions (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

When Google Navigation tells you to "head North-East".

I am a fool who bought an Android phone without a magnetic compass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I mean at that point just ask what time it is, and then pair that with the knowledge that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and boom. You have a general sense of direction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ah crap, it's noon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shadows point north in the northern hemisphere and south in the southern hemisphere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm in the tropics

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