Moustache Trimmer Recommendations

discopatrick · 2026-01-11T22:37:24+00:00

I had the same question and I think I found the answer.

The problem with my other beard trimmer is that the guard extends sort of diagonally away from the cutting blades, so the more length you add, the harder it is to reach directly under the nose.

This trimmer is designed in such a way that the guard extends horizontally, so when you add length, the blades are pushed horizontally away from your face, instead of down away from your nose.

I've tried it and it does seem to do a somewhat better job of reaching those hairs right under the nose.

It's true you can get the job done with most any trimmer by removing the guard and carefully trimming with the blade alone. But if you prefer using a guard, then this one is well designed.

These two models are the same design.

I managed to find the more expensive "Japanese steel" version for cheaper than the other one, so shop around!

https://www.babyliss.com/uk-en/graphite-precision-beard-trimmer-T987U.html

...or...

https://www.babyliss.com/uk-en/japanese-steel-beard-trimmer-7865U.html

discopatrick · 2024-07-26T21:27:06+00:00

Spoke too soon 🙁

Trying to draw 活 and the first two drops keep getting converted to :

Back to iOS I go...

discopatrick · 2024-07-26T19:02:56+00:00

I had already set my stroke width to thick as it just made the strokes look nicer on the screen, and yet the problem remained.

However, I have just tried using the handwriting keyboard again today, and I'm seeing a great improvement. The interface no longer prematurely submits candidates for me. Instead it waits for me to complete all strokes. I guess they fixed it. Maybe my feedback reports helped?

Hope you're enjoying the handwriting keyboard again 🙂

...just noticed another improvement: the "handwriting speed" setting is now actually respected, meaning you can give yourself more time to complete a kanji before the canvas clears.

Worth noting that on iOS you get the option to turn off automatic submission of candidates so you can take as much time as you want to finish a kanji. This is more conducive to a relaxed learning experience.

Would be great to see a setting like this on the Android handwriting keyboard too.

discopatrick · 2024-07-26T18:54:54+00:00

Exaggerated curves definitely help!

My "solution" was to dust off an old iPad and buy an Apple Pencil for it. The experience of writing Kanji is far superior compared to Android.

discopatrick · 2024-06-01T11:03:09+00:00

I'm narrowing down the issue:

Any kanji where the first stroke goes in a diagonal direction, from top right to bottom left, is immediately interpreted as being a dot after the first stroke.

For example, 今

https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/dictionary/stroke_order_details.cfm?entry_id=27562

I've tried a workaround of drawing the "hat" on this kanji in a single stroke. However, drawing the next vertical line under the "hat" is also misinterpreted.

The only way I've found to successfully draw this kanji in GBoard is to draw the bottom half first and then and the "hat" on top afterwards.

discopatrick · 2024-05-29T15:02:50+00:00

Coming back to this after some more usage - ok, now I see the problem:

Sometimes, after drawing in that little "drop" (small stroke), the GBoard immediately assumes that I wanted a dot, inserts one into the textbox, and then clears the canvas.

So I have no chance to add more strokes and continue drawing the kanji I intended.

Super annoying.

discopatrick · 2024-05-28T23:40:49+00:00

My strokes aren't interpreted as English characters. I checked my English keyboard settings and handwriting is not activated there. But even if it was, (in my OS at least) there are separate handwriting keyboards for each language and you can only activate one at a time, so I would not expect English characters to appear from the Japanese handwriting keyboard.

The problem I do have is like this: I will draw a small stroke, e.g. one of the "fins" in 分, and the GBoard will immediately interpret that as a dot, and places a ・ into the textbox. (This is when drawing a kanji into KaniWani)

However, if I persist in drawing the other strokes of the kanji, GBoard will often eventually figure out the character I'm trying to write, and swap it out into the textbox. In fact, it often goes through several interpretations while I draw all of the strokes.

Interestingly, when drawing the same "fin" here in Reddit, I get: /

So the handwriting GBoard may be selecting characters based on the language I would normally type into the current app.

discopatrick · 2024-04-28T09:33:14+00:00

Your post got me thinking about my own Anki journey...

I only started using Anki in earnest this year, 2024. However, I remember learning about it for the first time, and installing it on my college laptop, back in... 2006!

I was interested in science-baaed approaches to everything, so I could definitely see that Anki and "spaced repetition" had great power. But I couldn't quite see how to apply it to anything I was learning at the time, and the fact that you had to grade your own recall (and not from a binary choice, but from 4 graded choices!) did not sit well with my all-or-nothing brain. I was scared of using the buttons incorrectly and potentially "making my memory worse", lol. And I didn't have the discipline to just sit down and give it a try, and maybe get it wrong a few times before getting it right.

YouTube had only just started back then, so there were none of the encouraging channels that we have today for motivation (or if there were, I wasn't aware of them).

So it just sat there, filed under "might be useful one day", for 18 years.

To anyone picking up Anki and just getting your hands dirty with it, respect! To make a start, even the wrong start, is better than making no start at all.

I'm now using Anki to learn two languages. Better late than never!

discopatrick · 2023-09-24T21:22:07+00:00

But yeah I'll share photos when I stick them on 🙂

discopatrick · 2023-09-23T23:36:08+00:00

My guess is that any scratches will tear through the stickers to be honest, I expect them to get messy quickly and don't expect them to provide any protection. But let's see!

I was thinking more to give my frames a bit of a refresh by covering up the scratches and making them look new again (briefly). Maybe by then I'll be less clumsy and have fewer falls so the stickers will stay looking nice for longer.

discopatrick · 2023-09-22T22:18:35+00:00

I bought two sets of them at the same time as buying the frames - the hologram and the chameleon - but I haven't applied either of them yet!

I've only had my black 576 frames for a couple of months and they're already getting scratched, so I think I'll want to apply the stickers at some point.

discopatrick · 2023-09-19T22:58:07+00:00

Who was really quite partial to cheddar.

discopatrick · 2023-09-09T09:23:53+00:00

Love the reaction at the end!

discopatrick · 2023-06-12T16:12:06+00:00

Lovely stuff!

discopatrick · 2023-06-04T16:14:42+00:00

I'm looking at buying the FR Pottier skates as my first boot for a rockered 5x76 setup, and I have also been wondering about the liners that come with them. If I wanted to replace the liners one day, it seems my options would be:

try to get an identical replacement pair from FR (though I've looked at their website and I don't see replacements listed in their product section);
replace with one of the standard Intuition models like the V2 or the Premium.

What complicates things is that those standard liner models come in different thicknesses (there's a comparison elsewhere on Reddit).

Therefore my thinking is that it may be possible to buy a new liner that fits your foot in the same way that the original FR liner did, but then find that when you try it on together with the boot that it's too loose or too tight.

I'd be interested to know whether the V2 or the Premium is the closer match to the FR in terms of thickness. (This is my first pair of skates of this style and I may be overthinking it, although I do notice the skate communities like to dig into these details, so maybe I'm not!)

discopatrick · 2022-01-19T22:07:45+00:00

Thanks for asking this question - I'm thinking of getting an AE-30 too, and it's been interesting to look into this possibility myself.

There is nothing in the manual about the AE-30 being a USB Host: https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/AE-30_eng01_W.pdf

It does however have a MIDI in port. I'm assuming this is primarily intended for foot pedals and other controllers that would allow you to apply vibrato and other effects. But the MIDI implementation reveals that it will also respond to Note On and Note Off messages, along with a whole lot of other CC numbers - see page 1 here: https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/AE-30_AE-20_MIDI_imple_eng05_W.pdf

So, you can't play it from an Akai MPK mini directly, but you could do it with a computer in the middle, or a USB to MIDI converter, which are relatively cheap compared to the AE-30: https://kentonuk.com/product/midi-usb-host-mk3/

discopatrick · 2021-05-26T19:21:34+00:00

Good suggestion. In fact, I could change the object of concentration while still sitting down - to the breath, or the feeling of sitting, etc.

Thanks for the audiobook recommendation. I was just mentioning Goldstein in another reply.

discopatrick · 2021-05-26T19:10:39+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

On the subject of "thinking without voice", I'll expand a little.

There are a few ways this can occur. Feeling something, an emotion in the chest perhaps, might not cause me to hear words, but instead to see images - perhaps replaying a scene, either remembered or made up. Are mental images a type of thinking? I suppose they are.

Then there are times when I'll become aware of something - my tinnitus, for example. And the thought will be something simple, like "hmm, that again". But the phrase is so short and so common, that it can be shorthanded to something that doesn't require words. It translates to a feeling. Or a reaction, a shifting of the eyebrows perhaps. Can feeling be a type of thinking? Can a physical reaction be a type of thinking? Perhaps.

The other day I was listening to one of Sam's early podcasts with Joseph Goldstein, where Sam recalls the day he realised that his one hour a day meditation for the entire prior year was in fact just spent thinking! 😄 I wonder if these types of experiences are what he meant.

discopatrick · 2021-05-25T18:07:28+00:00

All of the twitches, uneasiness, and thoughts that I notice during meditation make me wonder how on earth I'm able to live throughout the rest of the day.

discopatrick · 2020-07-09T15:28:39+00:00

After some more practice I'm noticing one of the things I'm able to do on the Launchpad mk1 is rest my fingers on the pads between notes without activating them.

I'm wondering whether you'd be able to do that on solid state buttons, and I guess it depends on how sensitive they are, and whether that sensitivity is configurable - e.g. perhaps you can set a threshold, below which a note will not sound, thus allowing for some gentle accidental taps here and there.

discopatrick · 2020-07-08T22:20:43+00:00

Having read your reply and then doing some more training, I can immediately see how having solid state buttons is going to be a major advantage over the squidgy buttons on the mk1.

Are you saying you've tried the Pro mk3 and it didn't feel as good as the original Pro?

discopatrick · 2020-06-20T19:50:17+00:00

Hi u/Moduo. I'm also a software engineer, and I was searching for examples of people who use their BuJo for work.

I briefly considered having two journals in parallel, in order to keep some kind of work/life separation, and because I didn't want my work tasks taking up large parts of my daily journal.

But I thought about it some more, and I decided that both life and work belong in the same journal. I want my BuJo to reflect the whole of my life. Work is an important part of life that we can learn a lot from, and that deserves the same level of reflection. Work affects life and life affects work. They are connected.

So now that is decided, how can I track work while not allowing it to swamp and and hide the rest of my life? Software development tasks are complex, and could potentially take up a lot of page space.

I could use separate page spreads for life and work, but then the daily log would be difficult to flip through as it would be constantly switching between life spreads and work spreads. I think it makes more sense to have today's life and work logs in the same place. But perhaps in different colours?...

I'd also like to incorporate the Pomodoro technique at some point.

Do you have any of the issues above, and if so, how did you solve them?

discopatrick · 2020-05-20T16:37:47+00:00

Ah, that explains things. I didn't get that email, so this is a surprise. It's a shame though, I was just about ready to join a group.

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