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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yawn.

Its a global positioning system, which has become a generic term (and has been since the late 90’s). Just because you use the term “satnav” doesn’t mean everyone does.

That term never caught on in the US, and was hardly used even 30 years ago (I say this as someone who adopted portable satnav as soon as it was available to consumers).

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