i stopped using traffic reporting
Fewer than two weeks ago, I bought a Garmin Drive 53, and purposely got the EX model that does not have traffic reporting.
Over the weekend is when I really put the 53 to the test, and drove somewhere I wasn't familiar with that I knew typically had heavy traffic to see how I'd feel about navigation without the traffic reporting feature.
I just talked about modern social media security stupidity, and had the thought to check what's going on with the ancient instant messenger stuff.
How ancient am I talking about? Late '90s. There are instant messenger nerds out there who are bound and determined to recreate that Windows 95 instant messaging experience. As in using Windows 95 with specific software, such as ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, whatever, take your pick.
Why would anybody even bother trying to make all that ancient crap work again? You can probably guess the answer.
I've been on the internet a long time, so of course I have social media accounts. Do I use them? No. Very briefly, I recently tried using one again, and that went over like a lead balloon, so I just shelved it. More on that in a minute.
Originally, social media was used solely in the web browser, but that's not how they're intended to be used anymore. Every social media platform absolutely wants you to use their app on a phone. Were it up to the social media companies, they wouldn't even offer a way to use their systems with a regular web browser. So why haven't they dropped browser logins? I'll answer that later.
I'm personally not a fan of heavy watches, and my daily wearer is current the WS1600H that weighs in at 39g.
Given I like light, I wanted to know what the lightest watches Casio makes are, so I did some research, and this is what I found.
The Drive 53 is the entry level car navigator from Garmin. Even though I already own the 6" DriveSmart 66 and the 7" DriveSmart 76, I wanted the 5" Drive 53 anyway just to see if there are any real disadvantages using a smaller display.
I think a Drive 53 is worth owning, but not for the typical reasons others mention.
One typical reason might be "works where a phone doesn't". A particularly nasty gotcha is having phone app navigation suddenly stop working when crossing a country border, depending on phone plan. For example, you're happily driving in the northern United States on your way to Canada. Phone navigation is working just fine. You reach the Canadian border, cross, and uh-oh, now the phone doesn't work. Service off, data off, and that nav app that requires data to work? Yep, that's now nonfunctional too. You just learned the hard way that your phone won't work in Canada. There's your gotcha.
The Drive 53 has no gotchas like that and just keeps working, but again, I think it's worth owning for other reasons most don't think about.