Our Smart Phones Are Destroying Us - Coffee with TTP

Great Job in seeing how smart phones rule our lives! I'm a tech guy with 33 Years at HP & IBM. Boy Scout with Orienteering Merit Badge from the 60's. You have discovered the secret sauce to handling the world of tech that can destroy you. Live with paper, love you family. Family is more important than a phone! Relationship with family is more important than your job or you media foot print. Be the Man You were Meant to BE! KAØORM

State welcome centers usually have maps for free. Always stop and check when traveling.

Osmand+ is a great offline mapping solution to help avoid prep time of printing offline directional maps. Comes with the same drawbacks re: situational awareness that google/apple maps inflict, of course.

If it weren't for Google maps I would be daily driving a dumb phone. The realtime public transit navigation is too good to give up.

You tube is the only social media i mess with any more....logged off of FB and IG over a year ago.....starting to limit my time and YT i subscribe to.....find myself mindlessly doom watching.....refocussing on only those ham subjects that are of my current interest. You continue to publish worthy content. Thanks

Good video! Love your content keep up the good work. I like your videos often will listen to them as I drive. Have you ever considered putting them on a podcast forum?

Good presentation on this topic, thanks. I love in-car navigation but I always check a map before I go to a new place so that I can get there even if the nav fails. I also often take alternate routes to my usual destinations so that I can learn the area better. Decades ago I turned off new email notifications so that I decide when to read email, rather than constant interruptions. When I worked in IT, we observed that people who check their email within a few minutes of receipt were the ones most likely to fall for spam emails.

Haven’t learned actual compass usage, but have always had a solid understanding of orienteering based on landmarks and position of the sun. Trying to explain to my son that we are on the east shore of a body of water so the body of water is to our west, and that as long as the water was to our left we were facing in a northerly direction remains a source of entertainment.

Missed the stream, but just caught the replay. I fully agree on the smartphones!

Enjoy your content. Kudos to working towards a better balance. Looking forward to seeing more Emcomm tools info.

I only have my phone so my mom can get in touch with me other than that, I started a year ago to leave the phone at phone at home on the weekends and at first felt funny but now love it. I'm a Systems Admin for over 20 years and saw this coming along time ago. It is actually one of the reasons your channel interested me because I like you don't rely on tech to establish comms.

I have printed maps and map books for local, state, and US. in my get home and bug out bags.

Gaston, you kill me! You say you “know” nothing! LoL I’m sorry but I am blown away how much info comes out of your videos! Please, keep these videos coming! I learn so much! I wish I was half as sharp as you!

As a New Englander, I have a DeLorme/Garmin Atlas & Gazetteer for each state. I recommend them! I do have a GPS plus other maps. I have found that I rely on the phone for so much that would not be available without data. 😞

OsmAnd. Amazing off line mapping software.

Frame antennas might be something you'd be interested in. They are driven like a magloop but much easier to make and it's the kind of thing you can put on/in the back of a jeep or for the higher bands stuff in a pack. They are much wider band than magloops too.

One other thing to consider. Get a Garmin GPS. The newer models work with GPS, Beidou, Glasnoss, etc.....and can hold all maps in the palm of your hand. I just ordered a 67i, as I plan on using the in-reach feature with the fam. I gave up on trying to get offline maps off of anything.

I've got into the habit of now navigating via paper maps and making a mud map of the route before I leave on a post it and stick it to the windscreen. Amazing how many people who cannot use a paper map. Thanks for posting. 73's from VK land.

My friends get mad that I leave my phone at home when I go out.

Living in Houston, the cell system gets overloaded or drops when the electricial grid drops. Happened during the Derecho event.