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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Closed comb vs open comb does not play into aggressiveness as much as people think. There might be a correlation just based off the fact that most open comb razors sold are also aggressive... but it's not a hard and fast rule.

This picture does a great job explaining the geometries involved, and it applies to open comb and closed comb alike.

People might enjoy open comb razors for other reasons. They're sort of designed to let long whiskers get through to the blade easier, but even that is debatable.

Either way, there are mild and aggressive open comb razors, and there are mild and aggressive closed comb razors. A vast majority of safety razors are closed comb.

To answer your question about suggesting a razor, can you clarify what you mean by mildly aggressive? Do you want something mild and efficient? Something with blade feel? Something in the middle?

 

This community has been transferred to PieFed software instead of Lemmy. You can find it at https://wetshav.ing/c/straight_razors

 

Edit: TLDR; please subscribe to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing. This Lemmy community isn't going anywhere, but the daily posts won't be here going forward.

First, I'd like to thank you all for keeping the wetshaving fediverse active with interesting and delightful content! We are approaching the 1000th daily SOTD thread since the inception of the wetshaving Lemmy, and during those 1000 days a lot has changed!

Scrolling through this post it's evident that most of our users have switched to PieFed. In observing this trend, I believe it's an acceptable time to switch things up.

What do I need to do?

Ensure that you are subscribed to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing. You can still use Lemmy of course, as the activity will federate.

Hint for PieFed usersIf you're using PieFed, there's also a Topic that I've built available here. A topic is a group of related communities. You can't edit Topics, but you can use the topic to create your own "Feed" of wetshaving stuff. Just thought I'd mention the option.

What will change?

Daily SOTD threads will begin to be posted to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing in the coming days. !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social will continue to exist.

Free Talk Friday posts will begin to be posted to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing in the coming days.

When will it happen?

Just as soon as I sit down and make the changes. Ideally you won't even notice since federation is slick and refined at this point. I will make a sticky post on !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social directing people towards !wetshaving@wetshav.ing when it's done.

Don't like it? Sound off in the comments!

Did I miss something? Any big downsides that I haven't considered? Let me know below!

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I disagree that it can't be LG anymore since it's still a basic TV so long as you don't connect it to the internet. Use the TV as a TV and use an Nvidia Shield, Chromecast, etc to do your internet stuff.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 4 months ago

Easy enough, sounds like a plan!

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nice, glad you're having fun with it.

Exposing things to the internet is a lot of fun, just keep in mind that there are bots out there just itching to break into your stuff. Use strong passwords. Use different passwords for every. single. website.

Tailscale is often recommended because it's very secure. You don't need to pay for your own domain name, either as far as I know.

For things that I expose to the internet (the Lemmy instance that I'm writing this from, for example) I like having a domain name. Especially when sharing it with friends since it's what people are used to.

If you're interested in going that route, each "thing" that you host gets its own sub domain. For example if the domain name you buy is called "kgrnd.com", and you're hosting a minecraft server -- you might call it "minecraft.kgrnd.com". Jellyfin might be jellyfin.kgrnd.com.

Starting from outside, sitting in a park bench looking at your phone -- the steps that internet traffic goes through to reach your server is like this:

  1. phone or device
  2. internet connection
  3. your domain registrar, which tells it where to send the traffic (to your house/server) using DNS records
  4. your router (hopefully something relatively decent and up to date for security)
  5. your reverse proxy, which your router is programed to send HTTPS traffic to (port forward 80 and 443 to your server)
  6. the minecraft server, be it in Docker or whatever.
  7. then back again all the way to your phone

A reverse proxy just decides "ok, here's some traffic from minecraft.kgrnd.com, and I've been told that minecraft.kgrnd.com over on 192.168.2.32, port 25565.

Do not tell your router to forward traffic on port 25565. That is not secure. The only ports that you open (forward) on your router firewall are 80 and 443, and those both point to the IP address of your reverse proxy.

Reverse proxy's come in various flavors. A lot of people like Caddy. I like Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM). Both handle SSL certificates for you which is very very nice.

The last problem to solve is the fact that your home IP address changes from time to time. This is pretty standard practice with non-business accounts. That's where a dynamic DNS service comes into play. My router has a built in service to handle it, so when I set up my domain name DNS records to point to "my house", I don't tell it my IP address because that's subject to change. Instead I give it what's called a CNAME record which points to a web address that my router has provided me. If your router doesn't have a feature like that, you'll have to explore other options for handling dynamic IP addresses.

Once you have something up and running, you have to do 2 things --

  1. At your domain registrar, add a CNAME record that points to your dynamic DNS address (however you're handling that). Alternately, add an A record pointing straight at your IP address. This will break eventually when your IP address changes.
  2. At your reverse proxy, add an entry telling it "when you see traffic coming from service.kgrnd.com, send it to the IP address of my server and port XXXXX.

Another thing that I like to do, which is a bit more advanced but in the end makes things simpler and more secure:

  • If using Docker, set up your reverse proxy to run on a Docker network called "nginx" for example.
  • Ever Docker container that you set up which you want to expose to the internet via Nginx Proxy Manager, manually assign it to the same network (otherwise Docker by default gives each thing its own network).

This is nice because you don't have to tell docker to forward any ports. Whatever the default port is for the service your running, nginx can access it no problem because they're on the same Docker network. For example if your Minecraft docker container is called "minecraft-minecraft-1" and has stuff on port 25565, you don't need to know the IP address of Minecraft. In the NPM entry, you just point minecraft.kgrnd.com to minecraft-minecraft-1 and port 25565. Done. No exposing external ports to the docker container. Pretty cool.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 5 months ago

Barrister & Mann - Promises

Citrus and exhaust smoke in the Omnibus base.

Infused with notes of orange, bergamot, real honey, whiskey lactone, peat, and nutmeg, this fragrance encapsulates the spirit of Northeastern winter adventures, further heightened by the incorporation of high-grade saffron molecules, lending an industrial yet nostalgic character reminiscent of idling sleds.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  1. Sure. Having more drives is typically done for reliability reasons and they're set up in some sort of redundant file system like ZFS, BTRFS, or RAID. Having only one drive means when it fails (and it will) you'll have some downtime while you replace the drive and restore backups.
  2. Proxmox is great, and I recommend it. Proxmox gives you two important things: 1) A nice way to manage storage (this may not be applicable to you with just one drive, but if you decide to add more later you can explore the options 2) BACKUPS! You're going to have lots of docker containers and stuff. Restoring docker containers on bare metal is tedious, because you're dealing with all of the folders that you've set up as volumes, all of the compose files, etc. With proxmox, you run Debian in a virtual machine and have all of the Docker stuff in the VM. Your backup will be the entire VM, so restoring it is very simple.
  3. I don't have a good answer for this.
  4. The best choice is whatever works best for you. Sort of a cop out answer, sorry. A lot of people like Tailscale (Headscale is another option), but the downside is you have to set it up on ever device you want to access stuff from. A reverse proxy like Nginx Proxy Manager or Caddy lets you use your own domain. They handle renewing certificates and everything in the background. It requires opening (forwarding) ports 80 and 443 on your router/firewall. Some see this as a security downside, but if everything is done using HTTPS then in theory it's very safe.
  5. I don't have a good answer for this.
[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Vanilla nginx is still too far over my head, but Nginx Proxy Manager makes easy work of it.

A lot of people like Caddy but I've never tried it. The config files are much simpler and it auto-renews certificates (but so does Nginx Proxy Manager).

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just need your address...

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I enjoyed my quick visit to that place.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 8 months ago

Nice, yeah I've tested with my acount and it's definitely a language thing. I actually found out how to enable it on everyone's accounts using a database command, so problem solved for everybody.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 8 months ago

Everyone check your language settings and make sure "English" is selected. I think "Undetermined" should also be selected, and the only way to select both is by holding "ctrl" and selecting them.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I replied to Porkbutts and maybe this will help for you too -- check the language settings under your account. English should be selected. If it's not, that might make some things not show up. I've never had a good grasp on why the language thing is the way it is with Lemmy, but hopefully that helps.

New accounts have English enabled by default, but I don't think it was retroactive to older accounts.

https://sub.wetshaving.social/post/2954980/4803339 for more info

 

Perhaps I'm stealing @PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social's thunder with this post, but I had to remind myself to pack Raconteur for a work trip.

Another reminder, there will be no Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club event in June on account of the Lather Games.

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Micromatic's are great for travel. (sub.wetshaving.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by walden@sub.wetshaving.social to c/wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social
 

I tried inserting a blade backwards into my Flying Wing, and it fits great! The tabs just need to be lined up manually.

This way I can just put it in my bag and not have to think about the blade -- especially useful for the trip home after the blade has been unwrapped.

This can only be accomplished with the cardboard wrapper removed, so it's yet to be seen if there's any metal-on-metal contact with the edge enough to alter the shave. I'll find out tomorrow!

 

This instance has been in business for over 2 years, and the administration has decided to cash in and sell all user data to the highest bidder.

Myself (@walden@sub.wetshaving.social), @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social , and @merikus@sub.wetshaving.social (our founding father and visionary) all thank you for providing us with your data over the years. By the time we split the proceeds 3 ways, we envision starting a rocket company, and electric car company, and running for President of the Fediverse.

There are other active wetshaving communities in the fediverse, so we urge you to take your pick.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=wetshaving&order=active_month

So long!

 

I got a new razor in the mail today, the RazoRock GOAT. GOAT is meant to stand for "Greatest Of All Time", and it's a copy of the Merkur 34 series. The ad copy says it's a copy of the "German 34" which is an old design with an expired patent. I was wondering how closely it would match the 34C, and it's almost exact!

There are differences, of course. It's a 3-piece razor, so you can use whichever handle you like (as long as it has standard M5 threads). The razor is wider in order to cover the blade tabs (which it does completely). The 34C has a small amount of blade tab exposed.

I did a 1 pass shave with the GOAT just to see how it felt, and my initial impression is that it's very very close to the 34C. I love mild yet efficient razors like the 34C, so I'm excited to have a durable, stainless steel version.

I know I didn't get it from all angles, but it's pretty much an exact copy where it counts.

The picture below might make it look like they're slightly different size, but since the 34C is a 2 piece I had to leave the handle on, so any difference is due to the slight height difference. The width of the baseplates is the same.

The GOAT is a 3 piece razor, so the baseplate is not attached to the handle. The included (optional) handle is longer, but not too long. I like both handles just fine.

 

I'm using a run of the mill motion sensor in the living room that turns the lights off after a certain duration of no motion (unless the TV is on). Sometimes the lights turn off when I'm still in the room because I'm stationary.

I know people seem to like the mmWave sensors for this and I'm considering getting a Screek 2A from eBay.

I'm curious if anyone here has used one. Thanks!

 

I had to walk to a different price check scanner.

 

Wife wanted an air fryer for X-mas. Sure, it's a bit on the "stereotypical gender roles" side of gift giving, but who am I to deny her what she wants?

I unboxed it for her and it says to do a 30 minute cook with no food in it to get rid of the burning plastic smell, so I cleaned everything and now it's baking away the extra plastic.

The kitchen smells like burning plastic.

I can't wait for some crispy fries and other assorted foods.

 

I do realize that this is a bit like asking "what's the best razor?", but what strop should I start with for my imminent Moarteen Koraat?

All I know about strops is they come in leather, cotton, probably some other materials... and I seem to remember hearing denim works fine.

I'm in the USA, but buying from overseas isn't out of the question.

Thanks!

 

I don't really know what to look for in the logs, but with some guidance maybe we can figure this out. Here's how it typically goes:

Set up daily recurring auto-post at sub.wetshaving.social. It works for about 1-2 weeks, then stops.

I set the entire server to restart every 3 or 4 days, which makes Lemmy Schedule stable for longer, but still every week or two it will stop working.

The solution is some sort of combination of restarting the Docker stack (Lemmy Schedule and Redis) and/or opening the Lemmy Schedule web interface and logging in, logging out, refreshing, logging back in, whatever it takes. The need to load the web page is odd, like it reminds Lemmy Schedule somehow that "oh yeah, there are posts to post".

A lot of times when I log in to fix it, the scheduled post does not appear in the to-do list. We have a weekly post that stays in the to-do list, but not until I reload, log out, etc. will the daily post eventually find itself and reappear in the list.

When it starts working again, it typically spits out the posts that it missed, sometimes in duplicate.

Any ideas?

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