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Cake day: April 13th, 2024
  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.infotoBuyFromEU@feddit.org•Name the best US to EU switch you have made so farEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Different to what most people are doing, but I’ve been thinking about dressing more European. So many popular casual clothes come from the US: bomber jackets, duck chore jackets, baseball caps, most sneakers, jeans. The last two alone are permanent parts of “default dude uniform”.

    So I now e.g. have:

    • a harrington jacket (ironically the name comes from an American show, made in China from UK brand) - it’s an English golfing jacket by origin
    • a Shetland sweater (made in Shetland)
    • a tartan wool scarf (made in Scotland)
    • some corduroy and moleskin pants for the winter (Made in Bangladesh, UK company)
    • wool balmacaan-style overcoat from Italian tweed made in Portugal
    • chukka boots (Made in England).

    Also eyeing a French chore coat.

    You’d think doing this would be really easy given how the US came to be. Say, a suit is European, but wearing one every day is not as common as before. The overall theme in the west is that democratization is cool, while tradition is not. But when I think Europe, I think tradition. Hence the suit is European, but it’s not “cool”.

    Corduroy and shetland sweaters are pretty “grandpa” as well. But I guess this is the arduous process of re-learning an identity after being fed American culture all the time while growing up. You just don’t know what’s yours.

    As you can see by the items it’s all clothes that come from the UK. Again, it was easiest to pick the UK because it was the purveyor of European style, back before, you know.

  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.infotoEurope@feddit.org•Please make a Trump superpostEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I don’t get how people didn’t realize that you’re not supposed to follow what he does day after day. He says and does outrageous things so the algorithms and media like him, so he’s everywhere. Is making a personal choice to be exposed to such news all the time really healthy for you? Being exposed to live news and following them is an illusion of the “civic duty” of being informed. Better read a history book to give context to current events than forget the news you read now an hour later.

    I prefer my US news slow - after they’ve been left to simmer for 2 weeks. And I agree with OP that they should be contained.

  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.infotoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Brand new bag
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    7 days ago

    It has to do with the “fashion language” and what each item “is speaking”.

    To me, a synthetic jacket speaks “trekking” (even though you can wear it anywhere, not necessarily trekking), a backpack is also “trekking”-ish so it matches in my head. But if you have a tailored wool sports coat with clean silhouette lines, which speaks “city”/“elegant”, and you slap a synthetic (or any for that matter) backpack on top it clashes to me. I guess it would also wear down the more delicate wool weaves from friction.

    Say, I wouldn’t want to wear a backpack with something like this or this

    But to me it would be more fitting with something like this or in general when trekking around somewhere.

    Again, do what you want - I concede that backpacks are more comfortable. To me it just looks better with certain clothes and worse with others.

  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.infotoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Brand new bagEnglish
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    7 days ago

    It depends on what you’re wearing. Synthetic jacket? Backpack is OK. Wool coat? Sports coat? You can dress however you want, but why did you chose that way in particular man

    I like the Osprey Daylite Tote because it’s a convertible backpack<->tote so you can switch. Also qualifies as personal item on low cost airlines

  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.infotoBuy it for Life@slrpnk.net•low-tech cellphone recs for someone in the US?English
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    15 days ago

    I have the HMD variant of Nokia 110 and it calls ambulance on it’s own if I put it into the backpack because the keyboard lock is dogshit (you can still press numbers which are part of emergency numbers like 112, 911 etc. even if the keyboard lock is enganged, this is their way of letting anyone call emergency services without unlocking like on smartphones). It did it twice now, so I switched to HMD 2660 which is a flip phone, so it can’t have its buttons be pressed if it’s folded closed. Literally the emergency team called me back saying they’re about to block my number.

    S30+ is a good OS (just buy flip phones, not candy bar form factor due to the kb lock xddd), I’m impressed by the features it has, even though it didn’t strictly need to. I guess it’s because it’s been around forever Nokia could polish it. For example:

    • You can pick up a call with 3.5mm jack headphones center button (if your headphones have media controls).
    • You can add your own words to the T9 dictionary.
    • You can have two separate languages for the T9 dict (one comes from the phone UI language, second from keyboard language).
    • You can put the call into the background and use the phone as you speak - this is useful if you call your bank and they ask you for a code send to your phone for verification.

    I wish HMD would start selling the charging cradle for HMD 2660 I think almost a a year after release…

    HMD will never update your phone after you buy it. HMD 110 4G still has the Facebook app, which when you open it it says “This page is no longer supported” or something. The newer HMD 2660 doesn’t have the app anymore. It just goes to show that they update the software only when releasing a new phone, they don’t provide non-critical updates to previous models.

    HMD also dropped the ball with HMD 110 4G because the Unisoc T127 cpu supports hotspot, but they just decided not to implement it.