The “tweak”: I read about it on the forums, I don’t remember which one. People realized they could use shims to make the razor more aggressive, and not long after someone figured out that they could loosen the handle to the same end without negatively affecting how the razor handled. And no, it doesn’t really clog, it usually gets the area I’m targeting with one stroke (YMMV as they say tho). And it flushes out really well, too. Nothing in there when I disassemble to let it dry.

• Brush: The Goodfellas’ Smile “The Hog” (three years old)
• Razor: Henson V1 Mild Jet Black (two years old)
• Blade: Lord Platinum
• Lather: Cheap, local unscented tallow soap
• Post Shave: Nivea Sensitive Balm

Average shave, had a few bumps as per usual. Around five days’ worth of growth which for me results in a thick beard. But my Henson made easy work of it as I tweak it by loosening the handle 1/4 turns to make it from a Mild into a Medium. Cuts down the stubble no problem. For the second pass, I tighten the handle to “factory settings” so I get a milder shave for touch-ups.

The brush I’ve had for three years, I got it when I started wet shaving. It’s been holding up real good (no shedding etc). I’ve ordered a Yaqi Timberwolf synthetic as an upgrade and a Simpson Bay Rum soap to go with it (I do have other soaps beside the tallow as well, Prorasos being among my favourites).

There’s Zotero. I haven’t used it but seems to have a feature called ‘Collect with a click’ which should allow adding bookmarks.

It’s going to be gaymores next.

Its. Teacher is a cat, this checks out.

Flat to not flat in six panels flat. Nice.

I second that. Fossify also has a whole suite of other apps. It’s a fork from Simple Tools which sold out. Fossify Gallery is awesome and also available on Play Store. Other apps are making their way there. NB! Not connected to Fossify, just a fan of what they’re doing.

I can’t write much today, but I just want to thank everyone for their input. I know that AI means different things for different professions and different people. In cording, it can be quite helpful. But in a language-based profession, it can be problematic, because it can output fluent and convincing language, while getting all the facts wrong. Or it can sound very artistic, but if you look at it closer, it’s not all that original, or the language might become impoverished, and so on and so forth. In tedious and repetitive jobs people are perhaps more willing to give over to AI. Which is what robots are doing.

I’ll read your replies more closely tomorrow and reply to each one, if I can. Thanks for the discussion!

No prob! 😊 👍️

Thank you, I’m pretty proud of myself as well. I was already prepared to re-install from scratch, because I have backups in place. I still can’t understand why a tiny programme completely borked Software Center, but apparently Windows and Linux don’t mix at all, unless you use Wine.

My upvote goes to Master PDF Editor as well. Only PDF reader/editor that can do annotations and notes sufficiently well, in my very personal opinion.

Tauon Music Box available on Flathub. You look for albums by typing on your keyboard. Once you see the result which says “Artist”, hit enter. It creates a playlist which shows all the albums of that playlist. The next time you want to listen to that artist, start typing and select “[Artist name] playlist”. This concept differs from a traditional concept of playlists, because it doesn’t actually create playlists you can use or export. I just like the UI, although the play controls are bit weird, they don’t quite work the way you’d expect them to. It’s a new project but worth keeping an eye on.

FocusWriter for a minimalist, focused writing experience. You can edit the existing template for a dark theme and white text. I rather like the typewriter font, Liberation Mono (it was Courier something back on Windows). Give it a try. I’ve been using it for around 3-4 years.

Wow, thanks for this important detail. I’ll be doing it from the Settings menu so I hope there won’t be any issues. I’ll report back once I’ve done it. EDIT: It worked without any problems. I disabled screen locks and the Google account (just followed the Android Central instructions) and voila, Bob’s your uncle.

Yup, I know a factory reset won’t revert it to stable. I’m happy with the beta because everything seems to be working okay. I can’t seem to get it to install security updates, but the app updates work. But it’s an older phone so I doubt I’d be getting security updates either way. Anyway, the person I’m giving it to will be using it like a dumb phone with a good camera, basically. Thanks for your input!

Ok, good to know! Thank you! 👍

Hah, thanks. The bumps may also be milia, which are little white bumps around the eyes and are caused by dry skin. I have them around my eyes. They seem to be harmless, at least in my case. I have one bigger bump which I’m pretty sure is scar tissue, at least I think so. It didn’t go away even though I used skin exfoliators. I’ve never had another since, though. Closer to my nose, I sometimes get a few red spots after shaving, which look like acne, but it isn’t. I suspect it’s where I haven’t managed to wash my skin properly or else am going over the spot too vigorously. I deliberately leave lather there so I can make sure the razor doesn’t pass there.

There’s a chance it might be ingrown hair, because it gets inflamed, but it calms down and disappears after a few days. When it comes to pre-shave / post-shave, I think that overall, I have a pretty good routine. I wash my face with soap before shaving, using hot water to soften the whiskers. After the shave, I wash my face with cold water, because when I rub my face, dead skin appears (shaving is exfoliating, after all). I rise it off. I then liberally apply the alum. Let that work, wash my gear. Rise alum off, apply a balm (Nivea Sensitive). Done. I find aftershaves dry my skin and some have scents which are too strong for my liking (I have an unused Proraso Green AS). I’ve considered pure witch hazel, but we’ll see. I used a tester, but I don’t remember how my skin reacted. Shouldn’t alum be enough?

I, too, used a rotary electric shaver as a teen, but when my beard started to grow more (around 2015-16), it couldn’t get the job done. At the same time, I’m glad that I have a thick beard, otherwise I wouldn’t have anything to shave. 🤣 I was stuck with a beard for a year or two, while looking unkempt as hell. I then bought a beard trimmer and that worked for a while, until it broke just after 2.5 years of use (battery died). I then saw an ad about the Henson razor on Facebook, then started looking at double-edge razors. Bought a cheap shaving set, with which I shaved for a year until I bit the bullet and got the Henson. It’s still my main razor, although I have that cheap Chinese one (surprisingly effective) and a Mühle R89 (a tad too mild).

I probably got a few nicks and cuts during my first DE shave as well, but I haven’t regretted it. It sometimes leaves me with weird bumps on my skin, but I don’t think they are ingrown hairs, just some sort of nicks that get inflamed. Some of these bumps have stayed on my skin, so part of me thinks I should get a trimmer, but I can’t be bothered with trimmers again. But most of the bumps go away so no biggie. I shave once or max twice a week, so my skin gets a chance to heal.

Hah, yeah. Like others, I already use uBlock, and I don’t really use Facebook any more. On the other hand, I’m worried about the social implications of not using FB and Messenger. I’ve been planning to move to secure messaging apps, but it almost feels like you’re not a human if you don’t have FB. In that regard, I found switching my email provider easier. But I’ll remove my account eventually, more likely sooner than later.

Nice move Meta, you just cemented my decision to leave Facebook / Meta for good. Thanks!