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Cake day: August 14th, 2025
  • walden@wetshav.ingtoWetShaving@sub.wetshaving.social•Monday SOTD Thread, August 25th, 2025 (#804)English
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    9 hours ago

    August 25th, 2025

    • Brush: AP Shave Co. - w/Maggard SHD 26mm Badger
    • Razor: Union Razor Cutlery 5/8 Full Hollow (9)
    • Lather: Fanzine Saponifications - Caravaggio - Soap
    • Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Aftershave
    • Fragrance: Fanzine Saponifications - Caravaggio - EdP

    Another superb shave from Fanzine Saponifications. I used my favorite synthetic brush last night and got one of the best shaves of my life, and today I used a badger knot. I knew from the start that I probably didn’t load enough soap, but pressed on anyway. Results are still amazing.

  • walden@wetshav.ingtoWetShaving@sub.wetshaving.social•Free Talk Friday - August 22nd, 2025English
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    2 days ago

    Ah, so you’ve just placed an ISO on the USB stick? There’s more to it than that, but it’s not too difficult.

    Ventoy is a tool that let’s you try out multiple distributions at the same time. Take a look at that project, they undoubtedly have instructions.

    Otherwise you can only try one at a time. You’ll need a tool like Rufus to turn the USB stick into something bootable.

    Next step will probably be change settings in your BIOS to 1)disable secure boot (I’m pretty confident this is a requirement, but maybe not) and 2)make it boot from USB instead of your HDD/SSD/NVME.

  • walden@wetshav.ingtoWetShaving@sub.wetshaving.social•Free Talk Friday - August 22nd, 2025English
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    3 days ago

    PieFed (https://wetshav.ing/) has been running smoothly from what I can tell.

    Fun fact, since the images are handled differently than Lemmy and I still want to keep them in an object storage bucket, I was forced to learn how to route everything through Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a corporation and is therefore evil in some eyes, but it does come with a lot of free features that prevent being spammed by AI bots, for example.

    Lemmy sometimes suffers from AI bot attacks (at least I think that’s what causes the slowdowns). In the future I’d like to get Lemmy routed through Cloudflare as well, but I’ll need @djundjilla’s help.

  • walden@wetshav.ingtoWetShaving@sub.wetshaving.social•Wednesday SOTD Thread, August 20th, 2025 (#799)English
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    5 days ago

    August 21st, 2025

    • Brush: Wolf Whiskers - “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
    • Razor: Joseph Rogers & Sons Near Wedge (6)
    • Lather: Barrister and Mann - Fougère Classique - Soap
    • Post Shave: Chatillon Lux - Nefertiti - Aftershave
    • Post Shave: Nivea - Sensitive Beard & Face - Balm

    2nd shave of the day, and the first time using straight razors twice in one day. I have some early mornings coming up for work, so might stick to the night shaving schedule.

  • walden@wetshav.ingtoWetShaving@sub.wetshaving.social•Wednesday SOTD Thread, August 20th, 2025 (#799)English
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    5 days ago

    August 20th, 2025

    • Brush: Wolf Whiskers - “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
    • Razor: Koraat 15/16 Full Hollow - Sub Exclusive ‘Moarteen’ (6)
    • Lather: Barrister and Mann - Lyssa - Soap
    • Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Petrichor - Aftershave
    • Fragrance: Geoffrey Beene - Grey Flannel - EdC

    Great 3 pass shave. I didn’t do any additional pickup/cleanup strokes on the fat parts of my neck because it didn’t feel like it needed any more work. A couple hours after the shave my opinion changed a bit – some cleanup work would have made a difference, but this is still a very very nice close shave. No regrets.

    I’m in love with the Excelsior soap base. So good.