You’re in Europe, right? I would have thought PieFed would be slower since the server is in the USA. Lemmy is in Finland.

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.

August 22nd, 2025: cream

• Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
• Blade: Dorco SD507 Disposable (2)
• Lather: The Body Shop - Maca Root & Aloe - Cream
• Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Kelp & Sea Mineral - Lotion

2 quick passes to clean up any overnight growth. I shaved last night but this disposable isn’t the most efficient, so I think I’ll switch back to morning shaves.

August 21st, 2025: cream

• Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
• Blade: Dorco SD507 Disposable (1)
• Lather: The Body Shop - Maca Root & Aloe - Cream
• Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave

Nice shave despite being cream and a disposable.

Nice.

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.

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.

No it isn’t, but we have a strict no-rules policy here.

I had a Dark Lord sample and it’s an pretty incredible scent. The frag is very strong and lasts for ages. I honestly don’t have high hopes of the dupe being close to the real thing, BUT I’m looking forward to something along the same vein!

August 19th, 2025

• Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
• Razor: Gillette Atra - Handle
• Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus (Atra) Cart (6)
• Lather: Barrister and Mann - Lyssa - Soap
• Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave

Quick travel shave. Only two passes.

Ahh, I see. Similar to Kindergarten, or maybe pre-school in the USA?

That’s exciting! I look forward to our son having free daycare 5 days a week 🤣

Quickie

August 18th, 2025

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers - “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Joseph Rogers & Sons Near Wedge (5)
• Lather: Barrister and Mann - Lyssa - Soap
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Petrichor - Aftershave

Totally forgot to strop, but as has been shown by some of our members, stropping sometimes isn’t required! Maybe it was the lather, or the unstropped blade, or my technique, or all of the above… I give this shave a 10\10.

I hadn’t noticed the lack of thumbnail, good catch! On Lemmy it’s very client specific, but I guess PieFed doesn’t show any thumbnail if there’s no link associated with the post. I’ll ask Rimu about it. I think our use of a thumbnail for posts is pretty niche.

With regards to the number of passes? Still sussing that out and I’m sure I’ll flip flop a bit over time.

In general, though, I’d say the past week has been a big improvement since I found magic in a lower angle, and the magic seems to translate to all 4 razors currently in my rotation.

August 17th, 2025

• Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts - w/Maggard 30mm Badger
• Razor: Union Razor Cutlery 5/8 Full Hollow (8)
• Lather: Barrister and Mann - Lyssa - Soap
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Lyssa - Aftershave
• Fragrance: GLHF Workshop - Atriox - EdP

Great shave. Very close and comfy. Back to 3+ passes today.

Finding the Center of Gravitas.

Linux Mint

… or maybe it was Ubuntu, but it didn’t last long so I don’t really count it. Linux Mint stuck for a number of years.

You should be able to see everything now. I ran a database command to enable English for everyone.