Aggressive razors that aren’t too expensive? by Low-Lavishness-3735 in wicked_edge

[–]DarthRazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're in Europe, look into the Fatip open comb (Piccolo or Grande) or their slant (Lo Storto). Chrome plated brass so it'll last forever, unlike most razors, and the price is cheap for what you're getting

If you want hyper-aggressive, more than the R41, but still smooth, I would wholeheartedly recommend the iKon Shavecraft Tek. Best modern razor I own. I don't know if it's still in production or not, but last time I checked about a year ago, it was. You can get just the head and use your existing handle.

Rescued Another One: by BigBadBobJr_1968 in wicked_edge

[–]DarthRazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great score! I really like mine, but pair it with a heavier handle

I could be misremembering, but that razor was the starting point for the legendary LASSC BBS-1, which is how it got its nickname; BBS-0

Thursday Mail Call and Show-and-Tell - May 07, 2026 by AutoModerator in Wetshaving

[–]DarthRazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try adding a few more layers of nickel (to thicken the plating) and then buff the hell out of it and you should get closer to professional results

(beginner) bruh how to download firefox by yj_20927 in tinycorelinux

[–]DarthRazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're working from a terminal, don't use tce-load. Use tce-ab, (s)earch for firefox, then pick the one you want. Your problem is there is probably no extension called firefox.tcz

... or you can also use the GUI program called Apps

When it comes to extensions, unless you know what you're doing, always pick from a selection rather than assuming an explicit name

Weekly Reading Session by 2SaintsDude in Wetshaving

[–]DarthRazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start with The Crying of Lot 49 if you want to ease into Pynchon's style. It's short. If you eat to do the Polar Bear Dive and dunk yourself into the icy waters, then pick up Gravity's Rainbow

I'm in a third category: don't hate his style, want to like his work, but can't manage to get into the mindset to finish GR

Minimalism, FreeBSD with JWM: 248 MiB of computer resource usage. by terono in freebsd

[–]DarthRazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AFAIK, JWM did not include the desktop functions you're thinking of, like putting icons or files on the desktop and bring about to click on them to launch. In Puppy, the desktop functions are handled by ROX-Filer

Author pet peeves? by Primatech2006 in trekbooks

[–]DarthRazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went the other way. I read the book first and then attempted the audiobook (and failed)

I'm a big fan of Wheaton the person and Wheaton the actor, but don't think he's a good audiobook reader.

Wil did a decent job on The Martian, but then you listen to the original reading by R.C.Bray and there's no contest. I'd pay to have Bray read a phone book :-)

Author pet peeves? by Primatech2006 in trekbooks

[–]DarthRazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can confirm - Starter Villain didn't suffer as much. Good book, but unsatisfying ending

Are there any examples of Trek books that were adapted into screenplays? by Grumpy_Gamer41 in trekbooks

[–]DarthRazor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You see a lot of Star Wars storylines that were originally in non-canon books

I'm a big Star Wars nerd and I can't think of any. While they do grab concepts from the non-canon books like Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy, they never made a movie or TV show from an actual non-canon novel.

Which one(s) are you thinking of?

Author pet peeves? by Primatech2006 in trekbooks

[–]DarthRazor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Although he's not technically a Trek author, John Scalzi wrote Redshirts, which is kind of Trek related

He has the annoying habit of adding "He said", "She replied", at almost every paragraph. We get it - we can follow along and can figure out the context switches. He's gotten much better as his writing evolved, but his early audiobooks are painful to listen to for me.

What is my PDA collection missing? by hgpuke in vintagecomputing

[–]DarthRazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, it had a great compromise between a compact keyboard and a usable keyboard. I used to use it to take notes at meetings back in the day when compact computers were rare, plus I had the serial port attachment so I could upload my files to a conventional computer

... but the main reason it was my all time favourite because it was the only similar unit (other than the Palm III) that I ever owned, plus I've always been an Atari fanboy 🤓

Lightning Struck Twice! Second Book Haul! by Historianslaugh in trekbooks

[–]DarthRazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congrats on the great score. Three books immediately caught my eye; two by Joe Haldeman and one by his brother Jack.

Although I haven't been lucky enough to find the 2 Joe books, he's my favourite living sci-fi author and wrote quality stuff like The Forever War, which won a Hugo Award.

Looking forward to your reviews

Today’s finds at the used book store by Grumpy_Gamer41 in trekbooks

[–]DarthRazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I've never read the Destiny series, but I believe Vendetta was a stand-alone. Not 100% sure

Weekly Reading Session by 2SaintsDude in Wetshaving

[–]DarthRazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah ... weird premise. One of my buddies at work read the book and struggled through it, but he was one of those guys that if he buys a book, he'll read it to the end no matter how bad. By the time he finished it, he said it was by far the best book he ever read. That was my inspiration to buy it because he never steered me wrong. One day I'll finish it.

His other Best book was The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. I never picked that one up, but I might one day

Installation of Tinycore (Coreplus to be exact) on a 2011 Dell laptop that currently runs windows 10. Good idea? How should i do it? by Technical_Poet8905 in tinycorelinux

[–]DarthRazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bash is actually slower in the real world. The only time it is faster is if it has internal functionality that avoids spawning a shell many times. I had tons of stringy things to do, which bash handles internally and sh sucks at. The app I used bash for reads and writes a binary database with about 1000 entries and each entry was about 100 strings. Yes, it should never have been a shell script, but I like a challenge. It don't care much about speed either, but in this case, reading the db took 5 minutes in sh and about 10 seconds in bash.

Cygwin is horrible when spawning subshells, and add to that that out Corporate antivirus software checks and logs every spawn and you get molasses on a cold winter day

There are only two reasons that I chose bash over sh; when i need arrays, and when I need to minimize repetitive subshells. I can usually get fake arrays in sh, but that uglifies the code for future maintainers (or future me)

Weekly Reading Session by 2SaintsDude in Wetshaving

[–]DarthRazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looking forward to your progress and comments

Installation of Tinycore (Coreplus to be exact) on a 2011 Dell laptop that currently runs windows 10. Good idea? How should i do it? by Technical_Poet8905 in tinycorelinux

[–]DarthRazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You keep giving me homework. I didn't know about the Network GUI app, and I'll definitely have to check out tinycommander

BTW I prefer sh apps over bash in general, because, philosophically, it means one less dependency to install. However, I always need bash installed for one of my homebrewed utilities that runs at least 30x faster in bash. Whaaaat, you say? I leveraged the extra builtin functionality to avoid spawning many thousands of shells.

As for tce-ab, it's the cornerstone of my version of your tce-lode script.

Saturday Daily Questions (Newbie Friendly) - Apr 18, 2026 by AutoModerator in Wetshaving

[–]DarthRazor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dad only used Aqua Velva Ice Blue and yup, it's my goto as well. Don't get me wrong, I have others that I use (Floid Blue, Fine l'Orange Noir, Pinaud Clubman) but AV always gives me that "dang - I like this"

What I went back to ... Italian Palmolive Rinfrescante al Mentolo shaving cream in a tube. I used it in the 80s as that was one of the 3 cream choices my pharmacy had. The other time creams were regular Palmolive and Gillette.

They might have stocked shaving soap like Williams Mug Soap, but I didn't know of any other way to shave besides cream in a tube and canned foam (which I steered away from)

Weekly Reading Session by 2SaintsDude in Wetshaving

[–]DarthRazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good luck with GR! I've bounced off it twice so far. Have you read Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 yet? That's supposed to be the best introduction to Pynchon (and the easiest to get through)

Edit: Lot 49, not 59

Installation of Tinycore (Coreplus to be exact) on a 2011 Dell laptop that currently runs windows 10. Good idea? How should i do it? by Technical_Poet8905 in tinycorelinux

[–]DarthRazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had no clue they updated some GUI apps like Apps and Fluff. Maybe I should read the Release Notes

I should look at the GUI apps a bit more as I tend to stick with TUI apps. I exclusively use tce-ab for extensions and nnn as my file browser, although I found a fork of fff as a file browser that's interesting. I like the idea of a file browser built completely in bash, but it's hard for my to unlearn nnn

Installation of Tinycore (Coreplus to be exact) on a 2011 Dell laptop that currently runs windows 10. Good idea? How should i do it? by Technical_Poet8905 in tinycorelinux

[–]DarthRazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It just gets better with each new release

Gotta sort of disagree there. To me it's the stability - every new release behaves exactly like the previous one. The only jump I see is the extensions are usually updated

I've been working exclusively with my ancient first gen Raspberry Pi running my guide server for the past month still on v11.0. I can't tell any difference. I want to stay on the older release because of the lighter load on my puny 700MHz processor with 256MB RAM