I have Tabac and Arkadia

You’re welcome! Hopefully this makes it to your email inbox!

If you add your email to your profile, you can enable “Send notifications to Email”.

Some sort of push notification to your phone would be nice, though.

I finally figured out how to get the terrain stuff going on my Wanderer. Super cool!

Now I’m trying to figure out my future workflow… can you shed some light on it?

Currently everything I upload is its own “Trail”. This goes for the Strava integration, as well as me just uploading a GPS track.

Trails are nice because they all show up on the Map, making a cool overview of everything I’ve done. Obviously over time this might bog down the system when viewing the map.

Trails aren’t included in the statistics, which is a bummer.

So, I played around with moving each of my activities into broader “trails”, based on where the activity took place. I think that’s probably how Wanderer is supposed to be used, because when I move activities from being a “Trail” to being a “Summit”, they are counted in the statistics.

The only downside to that is they don’t appear on the map, unless you click the specific Summit.

So, basically, my question is – should I just accept the fact that I should move everything into being a Summit, so I can enjoy the statistics?

Thanks!

March 21, 2025

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers – “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna 74 (48)
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Gin & Tonic - Soap
• Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Lyssa - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral
• Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - EdT

There’s a new version of Lemmy available (0.9.10). It attempts to fix the longstanding “Language” problem, where users without English selected in their options couldn’t see posts tagged as “English” (which is why this instance has language set to “Undetermined”). Although, reading now, it seems like it was people’s browsers that blocked English posts if their system is set to anything other than English. Who knows.

Another thing the update will do is enable English for all users.

I’m still trying to figure out how it’s going to work after updating, and won’t update for a little while probably. The language stuff seems pretty straight forward but I want to make sure it’s not going to cause confusion for anyone.

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-03-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.10_and_Developer_AMA

Yeah I agree about that cream. Totally works good.

If it’s the sort of tan colored synthetic from Maggard, that’s my favorite knot (or at least it’s my most used knot).

March 20, 2025

• Brush: Stirling 24mm Synthetic
• Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus Refills, Atra (9)
• Lather: Noble Otter - Batters Up - Soap
• Post Shave: Old Spice - Original - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

Great scent, though not for everyone.

🫠

March 19, 2025

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers – “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna 74 (47)
• Lather: Barrister & Mann - Vespers - Soap
• Post Shave: Spearhead - Seaforth! Heather - Toner
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

Not going for any underdogs today because I’m boring and love Vespers.

March 18, 2025

• Brush: Semogue 1305
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna 74 (46)
• Lather: Central Texas Soaps - Down By The River - Soap
• Post Shave: Brut - Splash On
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

I like the few Semogue brushes I have. They’re all different and very usable.

I’ve had a contractor put their foot through the ceiling accidentally. They fixed it, of course. I’m just glad it wasn’t me.

March 17, 2025

• Brush: Chisel & Hound “Rob’s Finest” w/25mm Paragon Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna 74 (45)
• Lather: Barrister & Mann - Vespers - Soap
• Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Petrichor - Aftershave

Today is the perfect day for Vespers. It’s a bit gloomy and drizzling, yet still sort of pleasant outside.

After 5:30 I only had one clue. Had to give up on this one!

March 16, 2025

• Brush: Chisel & Hound “Rob’s Finest” w/25mm Paragon Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna 74 (44)
• Lather: Fanzine Saponifications – Test… Test… 123 – Soap
• Post Shave: Summer Break Soaps - Woodshop - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

So slick. This tester soap has everthing I need, and nothing else.

March 16, 2025

• Brush: Chisel & Hound “Rob’s Finest” w/25mm Paragon Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna 74 (43)
• Lather: Noble Otter - Batters Up - Soap
• Post Shave: Spearhead - Seaforth! Heather - Toner
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral
• Fragrance: Auntie Anne’s Pretzels - Knead - EdP

$Discord

It’s my understanding that Oak not being good for cutting boards is in reference to end-grain cutting boards. Oak is very porous and soaks up too many juices (not a problem for bread), but it only really soaks stuff up from the end grain.

For an edge grain board like yours, Oak is a fine choice!

The only benefits of end grain are that it’s self healing after being sliced with a knife, and it’s a bit more forgiving and won’t dull the knife as much. Bamboo, which is very hard, can dull a knife for example.

For a bread knife, these don’t matter very much, so edge grain is 100% acceptable, and 1000x easier.

there have clearly been major improvements

🙃

Wow