u/CosmoZeppelin

I need to register something with the reddit shaving universe.

When I started wet shaving over six years ago, like all beginners, I slashed myself to pieces with many brands of razor blades and I almost gave up after a year.... until I discovered Kai blades. They changed everything. Suddenly, I could get a smooth shave without blood, without pain.

Since then, I've only ever used Kai. In fact, the memories of a face cut to ribbons meant that I was utterly strict about it - only. ever. Kai. I have drawers full in the assumption that they will be all I will ever use.

Then for some reason, I don't know why, tonight I thought I'd just check the status of things after all these years.... so I loaded an ASTRA into the Rockwell 6s and set it to the most aggressive setting, used a preshave oil from Truefitt and Hill, whipped up a good ARKO lather with my Yaqi badger brush..... And the result? Smooth, sharp... pretty nice actually. No nicks, no pain. A little less smooth than Kai but a perfectly fine shave. Blue Stratos to finish and some Nivea for men creme.

I think this means I'm about to go on a blade experimentation adventure where I recheck that I still hate the ones I thought I hated, still like the ones I thought I liked. But, I guess this also means my technique was a bigger player in this than I ever thought and has improved significantly over time (I remember thinking the experienced shavers banging on about technique didn't understand MY face and couldn't be as helpful as they thought they were).

Anyway, I just thought I would note, the journey keeps on going...

I use an Ubuntu box plugged into the telly to watch streaming video, movies, surf the web from the couch, and (because my family is made up of people from different countries) we use it to log in to streaming media services overseas that aren't always in English. So, we don't really use a remote; we use a keyboard and mouse with some capable bluetooth.

As far as I'm concerned, it's the perfect media box. The side menu works much better on a television. The keyboard allows finer control than a TV remote, which is great for switching between languages, we can watch anything from anywhere - or even just scroll through old photos.... and when we want to watch free to air, it's easy to switch inputs.

Does anyone else do this? Is this even a valid way to use it? Each time I distro hop, I go straight back to Ubuntu because for this kind of use, I find it far superior out-of-the-box. Mint will do it but I have spend some hours reconfiguring the desktop layout.

Hi Folks,

I have a question. Thinking about installing a NAS but not sure if it's worth it. I currently have a Linux box connected to the TV as a kind of media box. I have a multilingual family so this works really well to get watchable media from both Europe and Asia.

The reasons I'm considering a NAS are: because I think ownership should mean I own my copy of my data, I don't want to pay someone else to store it, as the internet shuts everything away behind paywalls I don't want to play that game, I want to distro hop without losing my data, I want a copy of my important stuff (photos, classic movies, epubs etc) with some backup style protection (yes I know a NAS is not true backup), I want to protect myself against a future in which file sharing is much harder, I don't want to engage with the age check verification fiasco and I don't want the big monopolies to scan my files so they can advertise to me or surveil me.

BUT I already have a lot of media and, if I'm honest with myself, I tend to watch new media rather than rewatching the older stuff I have.

Is a NAS really worth it?