- ⚛️ Color 🎨 ( @Corno@lemm.ee ) English34•7 days ago
Vaccines.
- SorteKanin ( @SorteKanin@feddit.dk ) 3•6 days ago
That’s hardly low tech, especially not the newer ones.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 6•7 days ago
They just taste so damn good
- geneva_convenience ( @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ) 34•7 days ago
Scissors. Their value is noticed most when you cannot find them.
- nutomic ( @nutomic@lemmy.ml ) 4•6 days ago
You can always use a knife instead.
- Psyhackological ( @Psyhackological@lemmy.ml ) 3•6 days ago
But not as precise.
- Jolteon ( @Jolteon@lemmy.zip ) 2•6 days ago
Yeah, but in most cases it’s far, far harder.
- Tiefling IRL ( @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 17•6 days ago
Manual can openers are better than electric can openers
- Jolteon ( @Jolteon@lemmy.zip ) 3•6 days ago
Especially the kind that uncrimps the can instead of cuts it.
- spicy pancake ( @janus2@lemmy.zip ) English17•7 days ago
INDOOR PLUMBING
I live in an apartment complex. The thought of having to share an outhouse (more than 1 if lucky) with hundreds of strangers TERRIFIES ME. And/or use chamberpots. FUCK NO
A BLESSED ETERNAL AFTERLIFE OF BLISS FOR ALL HUMANS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO INDOOR PLUMBING SCIENCE 😩
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•6 days ago
See, in the past we solved that by just not having cities the same way, and no buildings taller than maybe 6 floors. And the smallish cities there were were so disease ridden the population self-limited.
- Extras ( @Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today ) 17•7 days ago
Rope or really any cordage. Can’t begin to tell you how handy learning 7-10ish knots has come, plus lashings
- SorteKanin ( @SorteKanin@feddit.dk ) 1•6 days ago
I’m curious just because I never use ropes or knots - what kind of work or activity do you do where you use that regularly?
- NaevaTheRat ( @NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ) English3•6 days ago
I’m not them but tying loads/things down during fierce winds, temp gardening structures, carrying stuff (weaving nets is useful knowledge), lifting stuff/holding suspended.
Idk even stuff like if crossing a stream it’s handy to have one person go first and make a temp hand rail by hanging a rope across so people slip less.
- NaevaTheRat ( @NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ) English16•6 days ago
Sharpening stones.
you need an edge so many times in your life. When you’re using scissors, slicing veggies, pruning trees, harvesting mushrooms, posting online, mowing grass, carving wood, cutting roots, trimming nails, scraping stoves/ovens, shaving, digging, trimming, pealing whatever.
There are so many dumb fancy arse awful tools that butcher edges and work in one specific case. No! For millenia people have been grinding edges, it is not difficult to learn it just takes practice.
Modern manufacturing means we can enjoy extremely consistent stones in well characterised grades. Go use some, and enjoy how much less effort life requires when everything that cuts, cuts easily.
- Riley ( @koncertejo@lemmy.ml ) 15•7 days ago
Do vinyl records count? I really like that they make beautiful noise from a simple electromechanical process.
- macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.org ) 15•7 days ago
Rice cookers. It’s super low tech but works great to cook perfect rice.
- Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•7 days ago
Praise Zojirushi!
- nutomic ( @nutomic@lemmy.ml ) 1•6 days ago
I dont know about you, but our rice cooker seems quite high tech. It can even talk!
- jeffhykin ( @jeffhykin@lemm.ee ) 13•6 days ago
Partially buried housing (ground cooling effect)
- midimalist ( @midimalist@lemdro.id ) English3•6 days ago
Do you have any good resource for beginner to learn about this?
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•4 days ago
On this same note, insulation in general. We can only make something so strong, conductive, heat-resistant, light or hard, so we’ve internalised the expectation that there’s always practical limits. But insulative? There just isn’t one. That means that with an arbitrarily small source of energy - body heat is not only possible but typical - you can overcome unlimited external coldness. We’ve being doing this since before we were human, by many definitions.
- s_s ( @s_s@lemm.ee ) English13•6 days ago
A fountain pen is just a controlled leak
- beeng ( @beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ) 11•6 days ago
S-trap / P-trap (Eg in sinks and toilets)
And zip ties 👍
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 5•6 days ago
Pretty much anything with an interplay of water and air pressure fascinates me. Someone else mentioned siphons. I’ll mention diving bells and bongs.
- beeng ( @beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•6 days ago
Perculator coffee!
- rednalsi ( @rednalsi@lemmings.world ) 11•7 days ago
door wedge
- goldenbug ( @goldenbug@fedia.io ) 6•7 days ago
Ooooh for me, it’s those sexy German windows
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 3•7 days ago
I don’t understand this, van you post pictures?
Also this post is a bit weird considering you replied to a post mentioning a door wedge.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 9•7 days ago
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 3•7 days ago
There’s also the secret fourth position known only to a select few: try tilting the window, and then pushing it forward.
Only some windows have this special feature.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 4•7 days ago
Or opening it horizontally just a tiny bit, then tilting it.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 5•7 days ago
Or rotating it up out of its hinges, and just dropping it onto a loud neighbour below.
(“Ruhe Zeit!”)
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 3•7 days ago
Aha I see, as a neighbor of Germany those are just modern windows or tilt-turn windows
- Nytefyre ( @Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org ) 10•7 days ago
Dumb TVs. I love the option to turn it into a pseudo-smart TV with just a streaming stick. But, I’m always okay with a TV that just has the ports for basic things.
- NKBTN ( @NKBTN@feddit.uk ) 9•7 days ago
Furniture generally, beds specifically
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•6 days ago
Lathes. You spin a thing and cut it, which sounds unimpressive, but from there you can bootstrap to pretty much all modern technology.
- gamermanh ( @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•5 days ago
Or, alternatively, you can bootstrap into a fine red mist as you get stuck to it and violently flung about
Lathes rule
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•4 days ago
Yes, when bootstrapping, tuck in your bootstraps.
To add a bit of detail, it comes down to circles being nice, simple geometric objects, and an assembly of metal with contact points being capable of way more accuracy than you’d first expect.
Bootstrapping the first lathe is harder; most likely some historical elite master craftsman was able to make one freehand, and future ones derived from it. We still have the one Vaucanson made that way, although it sounds like it was a one-off. David Gingery wrote a book on the topic, but he still assumes you have a power drill and a ready-made threaded rod.