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I don’t really wet shave these days but I’m tempted to try one out.

Appreciate the input. I’ll give it a try sometime.

I’ve used a couple Phillips groomers over the years. The first one I had was from 2017 and the battery failed me in Jan 2025 (honestly happy with the 8years service).

I got this multigroom 9000 kit to replace my old one. It comes with so much shit I don’t need (including a dang oneblade razor thing). I think the 7000 or 5000 should do just fine if you’re aiming for trim length, and not wet shave ‘neatness’.

I have a oneblade, it came with my multigroom 9000 series but I’ve never used it. The prospect of needing to replace oneblades every so often compared to my trimmers clippers with no such requirement puts me off.

I will consider testing it out for science, particularly if your aim is for wet shave level facial hair length.

I know it’s not an EU rec but there’s this Canadian company called Henson which make a safety razor handle that is more effective due to how it angles the razor blade relative to your skin: https://hensonshaving.com/

I see! Thank you for clarifying. Poor couch 😓

i heard he tried to have sex with a sofa or something

What’s the story with this place?

The OG fidget toy. My uncle used to hate it when I did this.

That’s fair. I quickly tested standard notes with it firewalled on my phone. it can be used offline and can be set up to require a passcode or biometric verification. Most significantly, the sync server can be self hosted, in case you do decide to pursue this avenue in the future.

The client apps are available on all platforms, including linux distros, though the desktop apps use electron and feel somewhat sluggish (it uses React Native for android and iOS which feels almost equally bad).

I’ve not attempted to use this completely offline but it seems to work acceptably. Bear in mind that the client apps can have subtle nags to subscribe to extended mode, which aren’t present when self hosting.

That said, the default user flow emphasises on the use of an account with an email address, and I’m not sure that’s what you want. I’m wondering if KeePassDX could be used for secure note taking, not sure if keepass entries have some kind of character limit though.

I’m curious about the cross platform requirement given the offline one. I’m wondering if Standard Notes or something similar can be used in a purely offline mode.

I’d hope that practically anything on Android today would suffice given the typical enforcement of either FBE/FDE. Do you specifically need an app that is password protected in addition to Android’s device security, or is this more of an ask for desktop counterparts?

Now I’m extra mad because their new app is messing with sleepy time for the bebis 😠

fuck those guys. Glad you gave a workaround in place.

no u

Hope it works out for you tho. Hit us up if you need a hand.

I’m using my kitchen S5 exclusively in aux mode with a spare phone which runs the Malopieds fork of Innertune. It’s the perfect music kiosk / jukebox and I never have to touch their apps (unless I change up my network).

Pluton capable hardware is present on a wide range of contemporary IHV offerings (requires TPM2 hw on the SoC) but OEMs selling devices with these don’t seem remotely interested in enabling it.

Vendor uptake has been minimal, and participating vendors seem to have changed their minds and stopped, though I don’t think this will affect hw implementation as that wasn’t really governed by Microsoft to begin with.

Vendors are no longer actively implementing the pluton spec. It’s not in itself equivalent to Intel ME, whereas something like platform security processor (aka PSP - based on ARM TrustZone) could be considered a closer equivalent.

Pluton is a weird thing. It’s not dedicated HW designed or produced by Microsoft, it’s more of a specification which requires something like TPM2 hardware on a given SOC.

Most vendors do not implement the pluton spec in their offerings.

Third time’s the charm or?

I was a little confused by the tone of this one. I scrolled back up and realised it was written by Signal’s Meredith Whittaker, and it made a bit more sense.

Absolutely. They’ve been getting really popular in wearables (particularly from Chinese brands).

Several SBC vendors are including rv clusters in ARM based SoCs (which I believe is partially related to what you mentioned) for development purposes.

I even have a little rv powered ssoldering iron 😊

same for AMD graphics since 2019. I wouldn’t be surprised if Intel were doing the same with Arc too, though I haven’t looked into that yet.