Swedneck
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- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 3 days ago:
You can totally find premade viking clothing for purchase but it’ll generally be expensive and not necessarily any good quality.
The nice thing though about premodern commoner clothing is that it’s generally simple enough that you can make it at home, especially with a sewing machine.
Here are some patterns that seem good: medievalmusgrave.blog/viking-clothing - Comment on A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70% 3 days ago:
we don’t even have to build anything new, aside from installing heat pumps which we should be doing anyways for a multitude of reasons such as “i like not dying of heatstroke”.
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 3 days ago:
right? You only have to go a couple of years old for the price of a refurbished phone to absolutely plummet, and that’s for as-new quality!
If you go for one that’s just a little bit scuffed but still perfectly functional you can get something indistinguishable from a brand new phone for a quarter the fucking price - Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 3 days ago:
same, the only big improvement i’ve gotten is going from 60Hz to 120Hz display, and i really can’t think of any more major improvements that would be possible.
Sure, it’d be sweet to have more battery capacity or better cameras, but the standard has been more than sufficient for any sort of normal usage for years and years now. - Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 3 days ago:
which is why you only buy unlockable android phones, lineageOS is if anything only going to make your device faster every update.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 3 days ago:
not #1? wow you classist smh…
But yeah non-nobility premodern european clothing was fucking sweet, they knew how to dress.
I’m personally a massive fan of viking-style commoner clothing, something about all the wool and usage of single-colour layers really appeals to me, and i think it doesn’t look out of place at all nowadays (at least in the colder months). - Comment on Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026 3 days ago:
am i sleep deprived or does the headline say a completely different thing than the actual body of the article? surely neighbourhoods and cities are not the same thing???
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 4 days ago:
Nothing is ever colourful in movies set pre-renaissance, everyone looks like a pauper and kings dress in fucking black leather armor…
In reality most people these days would probably be slightly upset by how garish things were back then, everyone LOVED colour! Even the poorest people would probably have access to some shittily dyed red clothing at least, and from there up the social ladder it would just get more riotously colourful until you get to the nobility who dressed like absolute dickheads.
Here’s some at least reasonably representative images in order of increasing social status, not necessarily from the same places but all from roughly “medieval” times:Bonus:
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This is one of the things that makes me fucking adore the Temeraire series: the protagonist has a father who is staunchly abolitionist and yet the protagonist himself doesn’t really think about it at all, until quite a bit later in the series when he starts realizing that slavery isn’t just some theoretical thing in “the colonies”.
Meanwhile the dragon protagonist goes “um, isn’t that absolutely horrifying? am i missing something here??” when he learns about the existence of slavery
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 5 days ago:
are you sure that means the same thing? i’m pretty sure in britain “private school” actually means a school run by the state, which armericans would much more sensibly call a public school.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 5 days ago:
in swedish it’s “indian” for native north american, and “indier” for someone from india.
I feel like one could come up with a similar distinction in english but the best i can come up with is “indie” which is unfortunately already taken. - Comment on 5 days ago:
if you posses the vast cosmic power of not having crippling social anxiety, you should contact them and beg them to make the information available literally anywhere else as well.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
unfortunately the problem is that “aren’t technically filling the same space” is a big understatement, they’re further apart than lemmy and mastodon are and i highly doubt anyone here would consider moving to mastodon even remotely sensible, they’re just utterly different structures.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s not made specifically for android but it seems to work well enough if you just play in horizontal view:
sh4dowsand.itch.io/terraformental
You can use the Mitch app to download the web version of the game and run it offlineIt’s honestly one of the best games i’ve ever played, just by sheer dint of how well the gameplay is designed. It’s such a great way to add flavour to a text-based game!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
eeeeeh i found that to be really quite amazingly boring, you literally just queue some actions and wait for hours…
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 1 week ago:
it’s even worse when you factor in the opportunity cost of spending 4 hours every day doing nothing but drive, that’s time you could be spending earning more money instead!
- Comment on Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades 2 weeks ago:
it’s like they’re doing everything they can to make the sabotaging of datacenters as appealing as possible, next step is to label every datacenter with the value of the components inside.
- Comment on Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials? 2 weeks ago:
hit me with that satanic picnic
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 2 weeks ago:
…sweden?
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 2 weeks ago:
I checked the places near me and yeah a normal-ass haircut STARTS at $50, many places get very close to literally charging 80 bucks for a standard haircut.
- Comment on Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps more mildly infuriating is that the mods here seem to be on vacation
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 3 weeks ago:
so here’s my “no stupid questions”: How on god’s green earth could you possibly afford tipping a barber 20%? Are american barbers dirt cheap or do you just actually consider it perfectly reasonable to pay closer to 100 bucks for someone to trim your hair?
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 3 weeks ago:
eh, i don’t think things’ll have time to regress that far before the pendulum swings back, plus it’s only getting easier to set up your own connections over long distances.
What i can see disappearing are things like youtube and global multiplayer gaming, because that’s just so incredibly data-heavy. But lightweight stuff like sane websites, forums, chats… that’s quite feasible on something like a globally interconnected mesh. At worst you’ll have to wait a bit for things to load, but like… we would probably benefit from that…
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 3 weeks ago:
honestly i’ve been slowly working towards that kinda lifestyle for a few years now and i kinda hope the “internet” fucking dies so i’m free to go all the way, it just seems like what things should be like if our recent development wasn’t so directed by corporate interests or just happened more slowly.
Old-timey life was really quite a lot better in many ways, like we’re just not evolved to constantly read about every single horrible event that happens to any human, and we need to be a little bit bored sometimes.
But also smartphones are fucking awesome and i like being able to call emergency services if i’ve fallen and i can’t get up, which even the actual amish recognize.Also the aesthetics/vibes of judicious mixing of technological eras is fucking impeccable, i want the countryside to look like Hobbiton, small towns like 18th century sweden, cities to look like 1920’s new york with everything VIOLENTLY art deco, and all of it connected with trams and trains that look like metal caterpillars and where 30-minute departure frequency is seen as bordering on not even having service.
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 3 weeks ago:
hope for the best, prepare to go amish
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
when you say “every single iteration”, does that include stuff like lineageos? Because that’s what i’ve been using for ages and i still struggle to believe how non-shitty it is.
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
ironically google’s pixel lineup is one of the best options available, i’ve been using that for many years now and it’s so fucking easy to install lineage on them.
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
seriously, lineageos after having dived into every setting is by far the best mobile experience these days, i’m almost never even slightly annoyed by it.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 4 weeks ago:
how the fuck is anyone taking these discussions seriously lmao
- Comment on Just to get this straight Odysseus angered the gods by just trying to survive the only way he could at the time? 4 weeks ago:
and then there’s finland, where the world was born from a massive egg or some shit, there’s a lady sitting naked in the ocean, and the main dude is an old weirdo who seems to have severe ADHD (basically a non-edgy version of odin, it’s great)
