I haven’t used a compass in years except to prove I knew which direction the building was in for my boss.
Knowing when specific stars are at night and where the sun is (where shadows point) will tell you where north is. Knowing this stuff is why I can’t really get lost. One time I tried but even in dense forest, the shadows never lie
PSA, never go into a dense forest thinking “I can’t get lost”.
You can get lost in the middle of nowhere but I always wonder why finding a direction seems to be such an endeavour for most/so many people.
Sun rises in the east, sets at the west. Face the sun, on your left is west, south is behind your ass.
Sun is not always visible, where I live there is frequently completely uniform grey skies. Also depending on your latitude and time of year you’ll have to adjust or you’ll be quite a bit off.
In my city it’s even easier, there’s a friggin huge volcano right to the west, the city it’s built at its foot. Just look at the volcano and left is south, right is north
Where you at? Iceland? Italy? Give me a hint!
According to previous comments they seem to live in Ecuador.
And if you don’t know which direction to go just go downhill. It has the highest chance of finding a river and humans always liked to settle on rivers.
If you’re lost in a forest, don’t talk to the shadows.
i blocked the instagram accout that was spewing these bullshit “you get X big number money but you can’t do Y thing you already dont do for a laughably small space of time”
but it’s followed me here
Use a real compass.
There are also online compasses that you dont need any app for
Or no compass at all.
Compasses are useless in daily life unless you are orienteering every day or are on a boat or something.
But if we have to find workarounds, you can just use your preferred map app which almost always has a compass integrated.
Just use the compass in your maps app FFS who even has a dedicated compass app anymore?
Sure, given that I don’t really have a compass app anyway
What good would money be if I can’t find the store?
Oh god I don’t know man I’d be jonesin’ for some ‘pass if I stop using it for too long
Totally worth losing out on that $250 million not go into withdrawal
'pass
Pronounced “piss”
nah I need to check my compass every 3 seconds or I go crazy
how would i know the way to the kitchen without a compass?
What app?
Compas
I never use the compass app. I simply pick a direction and walk. Wherever I stop is where I truly wanted to go.
Spend 2.50$ for a physical compass
I legitimately remember needing a compass at least once but could never figure out how to use those compass apps.
It’s pretty self explanatory it’s a compass lol
I know but it still didn’t make sense to me. No matter which way I pointed my phone, the compass showed north.
Yeah it points to where north it
okay I understand but it wasn’t working. I could spin around in circles and the compass didn’t move. It always pointed “north” to the top of the phone. Even when I was pointing the top of the phone east or west or south.
