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So do you use UPF clothes? What are your favorites? How you combine them to still look nice and fashionable?

Currently, I have a few hoodies from Uniqlo, some boleros and scarfs from Ker Sun, and both full-arm length & short gloves from Sunday Afternoons and Coolibar. I otherwise just wear jeans, t-shirts + undershirts and a baseball cap in summer.

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We all know how bad sun damage is for your skin right? It's the number one ager for your skin and biggest cause of skin cancer. I also have PLE (sun allergy) so it's extra important for me. Allergic reactions ain't cute, and having to use heavy medical creams to deal with that isn't great for my skin either due to it's side effects. So prevention is best.

I already wear sunscreen (with good UVA & UVB protection) religiously, but at times it doesn't work ideal (when you're too busy to always reaply in time, sweating a lot, rubbing it off on furniture, etc.) and sometimes you just wanna be lazy and not spend 15 minutes applying it to your whole body to walk to the store nearby.

Hence UV protective clothes (or UPF clothes, as UPF is the rating of UV-blockage). You know, those kinda clothes you see Asians covering themselves with. Protection can be archieved by fabric, weave, colour, and additives like zinq-oxide. Additives however will wash out over time, whereas clothes not relying on them will work until the fabric degrades.

Some pro's are that UPF clothes keep working without needing to be reapplicated for any bodypart that's covered, and they protect from both UVA and UVB, wheras SPF ratings only measure UVB blocking. Using them also saves money over using sunscreen as covered bodyparts don't need sunscreen making me run out less quick.

Yes, regular clothes cover too but their protection is a guess game. A white cotton shirt would have a UPF rating of 3~7 for example. Traditional blue jeans are quite high (100+), but the same jeans in white or thinner fabrics are much lower (not even meeting European standards to be called UV-protective). UPF clothes are tested and certified. In the EU, they need a rating of UPF40 or higher to be allowed to be marketed as "UV-protective".

UV-protective clothes are also often made to still be comfortable in hot weather, wheras other clothes that protect as much might be thicker and warmer. At times it may even be more comfortable than bare skin due to blocking direct sun hitting you and using cooling fabrics.

Sadly most are simple plain (sport)shirts or longsleeves, which is boring after a while, or swimwear. Hence this topic.

Some brands who make UPF clothes:

• Uniqlo
• Ker Sun
• Coolibar
• Solbari
• Sunday Afternoons
• Columbia
• Hyphen
• UV.LINE
• Skinshield
• iq-uv
• REI
• UVSkinz
• Patagonia

Only few more to go! Only playing hard mode and higher + no macros.

Anyone else here playing?

Last year I picked these up on my trip to Vietnam. In the whole of Saigon, we could only find 1 record store 😳. Can't wait to pick up some new CDs when we go back next year to expand the collection!

Sinds Jerboa's update gister krijg ik de volgende melding. Alles lijkt nog te werken. Maar gezien de officiele app dit aangeeft, wellicht dat server admin een kijkje wil nemen naar het updaten van de server 🙃

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Community to share and discuss Vietnamese pop music

Quite a popular song nowadays in Vpop, with quite some remixes available too!

Obviously the main language for Kpop is Korean. But with many songs also having Japanese versions, more and more English ones releasing nowadays, and even some Chinese versions existing. Do you listen to those? And do you only do so if there is no Korean version, or do you preffer a certain language?

I often like Japanese versions as I can speak it a bit while I can't speak Korean, so it's easier to follow along in my head. I guess there being some similarities between the languages' grammar and stuff make it easier to translate, and most sounds are quite doable to learn to pronounce, making it work easier to make a more natural sounding translation. Next to the amount of Japanese members ofc.

But I personally don't like most English versions of Korean songs as it just really sounds like it was clearly not meant to be in English giving it an odd flow. Most exceptions to that are songs that are completely rewritten instead of translated, like Weki Meki's Cool/100 Facts and songs that are originally made in English.

Chinese has been hit or miss as it really depends on if the idol can pronounce it well. It really seems to stand or fall with if the artist already speaks Mandarin or not.

Of course Korean versions are always good.

I want to hear how you got into listening Japanese music!

For me, I can barely remember where it started. I knew about the existance of girlgroups like AKB48 and anison since I was a kid due to my sister being into anime but it never clicked much with me.

But somewhere 2017~2018 I somehow started to listen to Chanmina, who I still like. I have no clue how I got there anymore. Around that time, I also started listening to TeddyLoid and a few others.

2021 was the real turning point. I was mainly listening to Kpop at the time and releases where a bit dissapointing lately. Then Koda Kumi's Doo-Bee-Doo-Bob got recommended on my YT list and I was hooked. 2 years later she's my 2nd most-listened artist of all time, with only Bruce Springsteen above her. Having a 20 year long discography really gives you a lot of stuff to listen to 😅.

But it also showed me a whole other side of Jpop that was quite clicking with me. Up beat, high attitude, and not-cute. I got into more singers like Ayumi Hamasaki, Namie Amuro, Mika Nakashima, Tomomi Itano, Faky, Happiness, and more. Jpop has become a common genre I listen too, and a big part of my CD collection.

How about you guys?!

5 years already, and we still k ow nothing...

I wonder how sharing between communities works as there is no boost option like on Mastodon 🤔.

This game never get's old.

Somehow I only found out about NorthernUI adding proper controller support earlier this month, despite playing and modding this game since before OBMM and BOSS where a thing. Used to be a Darnified fan but this won me over 🙃.

Great song she released last January. After 20 years Koda is still going strong 🤩.

This has got to be the best KARD song to date. My favourite used to be Dumb Litty, but I find myself putting this on repeat way too often.

Reminder to never skip the B-tracks. Not just for KARD but in general. They tend to have the some real gold.

Everyone I know who grew up in Vietnam hates this song. Everyone I know who grew up in the west loves it 🥴.

What team are you on? Love or hate?

The Elder Scrolls was originally Bethesda's take on a digital Dungeons and Dragons. If you read Arena's manual, it'll explain that they wanted a game that steers you into one dirrection, but if you want to say "fuck it" and go the other way, the story should support that. Similar to a DnD session where players don't do what the Dungeon Master planned so he has to make up sonething else on the spot.

To this day, that's why the main storyline is relatively short. But a storyline for alternative ways of life than "the hero who saved the world" exist, no matter if you're a warrior, mage, thief, or assassin.

Arena's manual also explains all calculations with oddly numbered dices to link further to DnD, by explaining calculated chances with D[number] for a change of one in [number]. Many of those "dices" don't exist in real life however.

Another funfact is that it was the first open world RPG, inventing the genre. Originally, Arena was meant to be an arena fighting game. But the developers went a bit wild with the area's in between the arenas resulting in the game that was released in 1994.

Now, the game is most infamous for proving chainmail bikini's are lore-friendly.

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At the creation of Vpop I accidentally set the language to something else. After creation, I put this back to undetermined.

When I try to visit https://lemmy.ml/c/vpop I get the following message:
404: couldnt_find_community
Whereas https://lemmy.ml/c/equestrian opens just fine. Both communities do load when loaded trough my home instance feddit.nl (https://feddit.nl/c/[email protected] and https://feddit.nl/c/[email protected])

Furthermore, while posts from the horses one show on lemmy.ml when filtering on new, posts from the vpop one don't. All post where set with the language button left on "Select language". Here also counts that on feddit.nl I do see them.

Do these issues have to do with the language setting? And how can I fix it so the community is properly findable/federated? Since I already changed the setting back I doubt that's enough...

The Moon In The Sun by Vietnamese singer Đông Nhi

Currently the newest song of Tóc Tiên

From the 2023 Remember You album.