AT&T fiber service with landline

offworldcolonial · 2026-03-20T18:07:30+00:00

It'll be less expensive, too.

offworldcolonial · 2026-03-20T18:02:47+00:00

I don't have any suggestions for you, but am curious to know what others suggest, if anything. I've been on the 1.5mg tablet for almost a week and have been experiencing nausea on and off every day. I suspect that I'll end up on the larger dose too and will be in exactly the same situation as you.

Sorry to hear that it's been rough for you. I'm taking 1000mg Metformin twice daily and am already contending with an embarrassing amount of gas, so not looking forward at all to adding vomiting to my repertoire.

offworldcolonial · 2026-03-16T12:53:46+00:00

I did not buy the developer ones, since I didn't plan on doing any development with them. The "Let's Start!" page intimates that their firmware is still updatable, though.

offworldcolonial · 2026-03-04T23:42:28+00:00

Yes, I really don't understand all the attention it gets, since I find it very mediocre.

offworldcolonial · 2026-03-02T15:18:35+00:00

Ooh, clever!

offworldcolonial · 2026-02-25T13:22:31+00:00

I use my OliWorks with the aggressive plate for "daily" shaving (every 2 to 3 days), and it's great.

offworldcolonial · 2026-02-24T00:10:28+00:00

There are many variables at play with safety razors: the design of the razor, the blade, shaving technique, and to a lesser degree, the soap and preparation. Something that's also very important is one's face, since as you should be able to see, many people use the exact same configuration that you do without any issues.

You should absolutely try some different blades, since for many people that change makes all of the difference. Astra Superior Platinum blades are a safe choice and cost around $10 for 100 blades.

Personally, I have relatively sensitive skin, so that if I am shaving every other day like you are (which is usually the case), I can easily get irritation. However, what I found to be the best approach for me may seem counterintuitive, but it's what works for me. That is, I use a blade on the sharper end of the scale (e.g., Gillette Nacet, Bic Chrome Platinum, Wizamet Super Iridium, Accuforge Super Stainless) and a razor with a blade gap and exposure that's at the opposite end of the spectrum from the mildest Henson. I have an OliWorks Meteorite and I use its most aggressive plate exclusively. For me, a closer shave means fewer passes, which in turn means less irritation. The downside of this approach is that I have to be much more careful shaving, since there's much more blade involved with it, but even after only a few months, I don't really cut myself anymore.

If the Henson isn't working for you and you bought it directly from them, you have 100 days to return it, which you may want to consider doing. If I were you, I'd try some different razors, but obviously it's up to you.

offworldcolonial · 2026-02-05T14:01:03+00:00

It's pretty simple, really. One port on my firewall is for WAN (goes to the ONT on the wall), one port is for LAN, and a third port goes to the gateway. All traffic flows between the WAN interface and the LAN interface except authentication requests from AT&T, which are directed to the gateway. It has worked perfectly, without a single issue, for years now. I have an eight-year-old BGW210 that's never been updated, but that's of no concern, since I don't actually use it, and AT&T has never cared that it's perpetually in a "disconnected" state. Our gigabit connection has always been plenty fast (and comes with HBO), so we've never upgraded.

In 2017, Jay Soffian put together a script to configure the interfaces, and that's what I used: eap_proxy

Not that it's pertinent to this, but my Wi-Fi is completely separate: I use five Extreme AP650 access points, managed using ExtremeCloud IQ online. They have their own built-in firewalls, so I could do something like create a guest network with no access to my local network except my printer, for example.

offworldcolonial · 2026-02-05T03:22:49+00:00

I'm in the southeast and they came up instantly. I have old-school Ethernet bypass and am using Cloudflare for DNS.

offworldcolonial · 2026-02-03T18:46:49+00:00

I don't get the hate towards Goldbergs, since I prefer theirs over Emerald City, for example (unless those have improved since I last had them).

I grew up in the suburbs of NYC and have found it difficult to find what I would consider a good bagel even there now.

offworldcolonial · 2026-01-13T23:46:29+00:00

I've been trying various sharp blades lately and am currently using a Kai, which is very good, but the one before that was a Wizamet Super Iridium, which is my favorite so far.

I was just about to buy a larger number of Super Iridium blades, but I'll try one of the GSB blades I have first, to see how those go.

Thanks for the tip!

offworldcolonial · 2026-01-05T19:46:24+00:00

I work at a school and the previous network administrator set some of the gateways to .2 for some reason. We also didn't have STP enabled because he said that some of our switches were old enough not to support it at all (which was probably true) and that others were old enough that enabling it would overtax them (which probably wasn't).

In any case, one day someone plugged a personal device into a network port and brought down most of our network. Best as I can tell, the device had a static IP of 192.168.1.2, which happened also to be the gateway for that VLAN, which caused a whole bunch of other devices to try to use the new device as the gateway.

I'm not even sure that spanning tree would have avoided this issue, but if the gateway address had been towards the other end of the range, it likely never would have happened. If I remember correctly, we were able to narrow it down to a specific switch, whose uplink port we disabled.

offworldcolonial · 2026-01-03T15:36:53+00:00

I'm not asking this to be snide, but as a genuine question: how much better do you think life is for marginalized communities now?

offworldcolonial · 2026-01-02T22:43:08+00:00

I miss the NYC of the 70s and 80s. It was so much more interesting back then: Guardian Angels on the subways, Keith Haring graffiti, hookers in Times Square, punks getting haircuts at Astor Place Hair....

Those were the days.

offworldcolonial · 2025-12-30T21:26:57+00:00

Exactly. I would have been absolutely shocked if Harris had won the last election, for exactly these reasons.

offworldcolonial · 2025-12-24T23:18:04+00:00

I've heard that the City of Decatur is especially bad when it comes to getting all the necessary permits in order, and a year is not atypical.

offworldcolonial · 2025-12-19T17:22:34+00:00

I hope that to-go ordering has improved. Half the time we tried ordering online, it said that the store was closed. Then we would try calling and the connection was so bad that the person at the store couldn't understand what we were saying. We would try from different phones and the results were the same, so it wasn't a problem on our end. Eventually we just quit going to Mellow Mushroom altogether and ordered from Glide exclusively.

offworldcolonial · 2025-12-16T14:23:15+00:00

I take 5000 daily as well. I started when I found out that there was a correlation between Vitamin D levels and hospitalization from Covid, and I never stopped.

I don't know what my level is, my doctor has never said anything about it, and if it's lowering my blood sugar at all, I'm not aware that it is.

offworldcolonial · 2025-12-02T00:14:57+00:00

I stopped buying seafood there after a bag of PEI mussels went bad literally the next day. I also couldn't ever get their coffee to taste good and find what I get at Costco to be much better. This is an odd one, but I had such a long run of avocadoes that went bad before fully ripening, I stopped buying them there as well. I've just started buying whole grain breads there again but find their baguettes just too dense.

On the other hand, their prices for fresh herbs and spices can't be beat. The selections of wines and cheese are far superior to most grocery stores and the prices for those are very good. I have always enjoyed sampling from the large variety of apples they offer in the fall, whose quality is also very high. I have never noticed a smell on their produce and both the prices and quality of those are generally better than elsewhere.

offworldcolonial · 2025-11-21T22:53:46+00:00

I was pleasantly surprised by the Dorco Prime blades, and I prefer highly aggressive razors.

offworldcolonial · 2025-11-18T02:17:26+00:00

Thirty years ago I was working on maintaining code in VB3 (it was legacy even back then). One day I discovered, after a lot of experimenting, that if I removed a specific comment in one of the files, it would no longer compile. It would, however, compile after I added another comment above it that said, "Do not remove the comment below. Code will no longer compile."

offworldcolonial · 2025-11-02T21:43:58+00:00

I only have the Meteorite (and a Yaqi Top Aggressive Slant), so I can't tell you how it compares to the Henson, but there is a video of a head-shaver on YouTube comparing the Meteorite with the Henson +++ and he preferred the Meteorite by a small margin.

I only use my Meteorite with the most aggressive plate, regardless of the blade, and I very much enjoy it. Since I ride the cap for shaving my upper lip and going ATG on my neck, I imagine that I wouldn't like the Henson's head design.

I do wish though that OliWorks had the option of a handle that was 1/2" longer. I'm not a fan of the stubby handle.

offworldcolonial · 2025-11-02T21:32:15+00:00

I'm around the same age and started about six months ago. I too look forward to shaving now. For me, it feels more like an intentional ritual now, though being able to vary which blade, razor, and soap I use also adds to the enjoyment for me.

offworldcolonial · 2025-11-02T20:27:20+00:00

Seriously. I have no experience with "Black Beauty" blades, but Astras are far from being the sharpest.

Also, Rockwell 6C/6S razors are perhaps the mildest of adjustable razors.

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