I enjoyed my quick visit to that place.

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.

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

Replying with a different account with a different language setting to see if it helps:

This is most likely because of language settings, and I have to look into it I guess. Lemmy language is such a strange thing – this Lemmy instance has had “undefined” as the only option for a long time. I changed it last night to include English as well…

Try checking your account settings and make sure English is selected. This is the default for new registrations (I think), but older registrations like us old timers have to manually enable it.

If it starts working…

Nice.

That brush is beautiful.

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A while ago I decided that BTH only works well for 1 device (using wireguard at least) at a time.

I messed around and made different profiles (not sure of the actual name) for each device and that solved my problems.

Worth a shot.

August 13th, 2025

• Brush: Semogue - 1800 Boar
• Razor: Koraat 15/16 Full Hollow - Sub Exclusive ‘Moarteen’ (4)
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Santa Noir - Soap
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Santa Noir - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream
• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Santa Noir - EdP

Different razor than yesterday, but both have 4 shaves on them since touching a 10k synthetic stone. I focused on a shallow angle, and although I’d call yesterday’s shave “better”, today was quite good as well! Based on the past two days I’m sold on a shallow angle.

Tusk soap has been inconsistent for me. Sometimes I get great lather, but I think it’s so easy for me to overhydrate it based on my personal preferences and I tend to lose all secondary slickness. If I used it more often I probably wouldn’t have trouble with it.

I thought it was going to take a turn similar to how Cricket dated a dog that one time, but nope that guy was just raw doggin’ it all the time.

Open an IRA at any brokerage (Vanguard, Fidelity, etc) and you can buy whatever you want. Just because it’s a Vanguard account doesn’t mean you can’t buy Fidelity stuff.

I have no clue about the LLC stuff or why you’d want to do that. An IRA is just a type of account that comes with some tax benefits.

Edit: ok, I was unfamiliar with “Self-directed IRA”. That’s a different ballgame and is going to cost you money.

That’s pretty neat. I was expecting something basic like “pay it off every month and there’s no interest”, but this was much more interesting.

It’s a method that web pages use to make sure you didn’t make a typo in the number.

August 12th, 2025

• Brush: Semogue - 1800 Boar
• Razor: Joseph Rogers & Sons Near Wedge (4)
• Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac - Soap
• Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Leather - Aftershave
• Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Leather - EdP

Very nice! I still get better shaves overall from DE’s, but that’s not a knock on straight razors. I sort of tried to maintain a shallower angle today, and I think this razor really excels with that type of approach.

I’ve been really enjoying some boar brushes the past few days. The 1800 is floppier than the 1305 which I used for the past 2 or 3 days. I also had trouble loading enough soap with it, so I went back to the puck for each pass. Semogues are less dense than the Zenith brushes I have, and they seem to require much less soaking before use. It’s amazing how much variation there is amongst boar brushes. I like all of the ones I have, but they all offer something different.

Are you familiar with Mikrotik? If you’re located in the USA, you can browse Streakwave, Roc-Noc, Baltic Networks and others to see about pricing.

I only did a little research and this one seems to fit your needs (8 PoE/PoE+ ports, low power consumption) https://mikrotik.com/product/css610_8p_2s_in

One downside to their more inexpensive switches is they run SwitchOS instead of RouterOS as their software. You can still accomplish tons of stuff, but some people have concerns that RouterOS has sort of been left to die without many updates in the works.

You can also use their routers as switches. I do that with the PoE version of the RB5009 https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009upr_s_in. It’s more expensive than the switch I mentioned, but I like it for the form factor and that it runs RouterOS.

You seem to be tech savy enough so you can figure out how to configure it as a switch. Basically you just add all of the ports to Bridge.

Is it maybe because of physical distance? How far is your VPS from the Backblaze region? Check the bucket “S3 Region”. I’m stuck on west, for example, even though I live on the other side of the country. There’s a way to switch, but I haven’t had the need to bother with it.

I don’t have any insider insight to the blade industry other than what I’ve read in passing over the past few years. The most interesting one to me was when Personna (or rather, whoever owns the Personna brand, which is now something else) moved the manufacturing of their only DE shaving blade (Platinum Chrome) from Israel to Germany. The nomenclature changed from Isreali Red to German Blue (why people don’t just call them Platinum Chrome is beyond me). It was interesting because the rep who came on the sub said 1) Platinum Chrome is Personna’s only shaving blade, and 2) they physically moved the machine(s) from Israel to Germany.

#1 is interesting because of course there’s also “Lab Blue” and “Med Prep” (note: I’m woefully out of date with the current branding/naming), but apparently they don’t consider those to be general shaving blades and the marketing department ignores them. #2 was interesting because that seems like a lot of work, so obviously there must be relatively few of these specialized machines.

I do think there are only 1 or 2 manufacturers in each known country – so Egypt might have 1 or 2, Germany might have 1 or 2, India, China, etc. The difference between each brand of blade has to be slight changes in the bevel grind, changes to the steel that’s used, and probably some relatively major changes in coatings. The style of printing/packaging might change but I’m not sure if they even get printed/packaged in the same building or if they get sent off for that process. I’m sure it depends.

I’d like to know why certain blades like these V12’s are so incredibly smooth feeling to me. They don’t bother my skin at all, are very sharp, and whatever grind they have works great for my whiskers.

Thanks for the info.

August 11th, 2025: Fresh blade

• Brush: Semogue - 1305 Boar
• Razor: Blackland Era - Level 3
• Blade: V12 Super Platinum (1)
• Lather: Meißner Tremonia - Woody Almond - Soap
• Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps - Woodshop - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Dove - Men+Care Ultra-Hydra - Cream

It was a good run with the marathon blade, but just because it was still usable and decent doesn’t mean I should deny myself objectively better shaves. I really love these V12 blades. I also have a bunch of Zorrik which I find similarly smooth and efficient.

I heard that my favorite blade website https://razorbladesclub.com/ is going to stop selling to the USA because of tariffs. It’s a shame. Maggard and other retailers certainly have some blades to choose from, but I’ve had fun over the past 4 years trying some weird ones, and have found some that I really like which I won’t have easy access to anymore. On the other hand, I don’t need any more blades!