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).
god damn austerity, we can’t have shit these days, even our brains have to meet efficiency quotas and “rationalization”.
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.
The Witcher 3 is actually a pretty good way to get a basic idea of what the past was like: not accurate to any one period or region (and mostly draws from renaissance-y europe), but if you ignore the fantasy bits it’s generally closer to sensible than not, and certainly vastly better than most modern portrayals…
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:
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, and this is absolutely pivotal to a lot of the plot in the later books!
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 americans would much more sensibly call a public school.
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 and slightly sounds like a slur when used for an ethnic group.
i’d be quite happy if people just stopped constantly fucking buying the latest phones and mindlessly consuming software slop.
Buy used phones, disable as much nonsense as possible, don’t sign in to shit, don’t download shit apps, and maybe if there’s some time left in the day make a post on social media about how the current situation sucks ass and google should be tarred and feathered.
Even more basic: Why are people just taking this? Why do so few people care?
AFAIK it’s specifically google play services that enforces it, if you don’t have that on the phone then you’re fine.
that’s unfortunately not what my experience has been, but then i also have like 10 apps with constant background services that i don’t want to live without… That said, the battery life is still perfectly fine IMO.
It’s not made specifically for android but it seems to work well enough if you just play in horizontal view:
https://sh4dowsand.itch.io/terraformental
You can use the Mitch app to download the web version of the game and run it offline
It’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!
eeeeeh i found that to be really quite amazingly boring, you literally just queue some actions and wait for hours…
Here’s the install guide, basically identical for all pixels afaik: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/shiba/install/
It’s come a long way from the cyanogenmod days.
the thing about pixels is that putting lineage/graphene/whatever on them basically turns it into a completely different phone, all the complaints about AI and whatnot largely dissapear and they become what i’d call about the best experience you can have on a smartphone. Easy to install lineage (dunno about others, presume it’s equally easy), just works, no bullshit.
from what i’ve seen it seems like the pixel line just has a curse placed upon it, where every model has 1% of phones suffer from fairly major hardware problems and the other 99% are perfectly fine.
the #1 reason it’s what i’ve been using is just that they don’t have any locked down nonsense compared to other brands, unlocking the bootloader and flashing another OS is absolutely trivial and stuff just works.
you can get around a lot of detection with stuff like microg/kernelsu and other layers of arcane bullshit technomagic
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!
yeah it’s kind of insane that people still get haircuts, let alone that so many barbershops exist. People complain about cost of living and not affording food and then blow 80 bucks on getting someone to cut their hair…
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: https://medievalmusgrave.blog/viking-clothing
I highly recommend making a ruana cloak at least, it’s absolutely trivial to make and very flexible.
All you need is a rectangle of fabric (a blanket works perfectly fine and will be very cozy and hilariously cheap), which you make a cut down the middle of the short side into the middle of the fabric, and then you sew some reinforcement at the end of the cut to prevent it tearing due to strain. If you want to be fancy you can cut out a circle in the middle so it sits a bit more nicely against the neck, and play around with the shape of the outer edges of the cloak.
I find the easiest and most normal-looking way to wear it is to just wrap a belt around the waist, like this:
Then if i need more warmth i can scrunch the fabric up more and basically turn it into a puffy jacket.