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Spearhead Shaving Company is holding a raffle in support of music education in their community. The prize is a Roman Spice soap, aftershave, and EdT.

I'm not affiliated with Spearhead, and if you buy any entries you decrease my chances of winning. That alone should make you want to buy some.

I've seen them called "Stop Lines", "Balk Line", etc. The thick line painted on the road at a Stop Sign.

You're supposed to stop before the line, but a lot of the time there's a bush or other obstruction so you can't see any crossing traffic. You have to creep forward until you can see anything.

Is there a reason for this? Is it done on purpose? It makes sense if there's a crosswalk or something, but I see it a lot where there shouldn't be any pedestrian activity.

I recently came into possession of an Ever-Ready Jewel "Streamline". Streamline has become the vernacular in referencing various razors that are all, admittedly, exactly the same.

The only difference you'll find is between Gen 1 and Gen 2.

Thanks to Cbubs (the man behind Catie's Bubbles), I was made aware of an old reddit post by the late 120inna55. I decided his post was worthy of being preserved on another platform, and our wiki fit the bill.

I made some formatting changes and made the pictures appear in line so you don't have to click over to imgur.com. Cool!

I hope you enjoy! If you have any other ideas for the wiki, please let me know -- or make your own account and get to work!

https://wiki.wetshaving.social/Curated_Articles/Streamline

A couple of months ago, @[email protected] loaned me some GEM razors including a beautiful Ever-Ready Streamline. His was in a plastic (or maybe bakelite?) case. "Streamline" has become the vernacular for referencing any of the various razors that look like a "Streamline". They come in various packaging, which differentiates them for collectors.

Anyway, I fell in love and started to casually keep an eye out for one. They are notoriously hard to come by, especially in the USA. Nevertheless, one fell in my lap! A nice one, too!

Specifically, the one I got is called an Ever-Ready Jewel because it comes in a metal case, and although mine doesn't have the "paperwork", these metal cases came with an insert that called it "Jewel".

Most of these have purple felt inside the case. The one I got has red felt.

Taken from this article https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-hid-in-us-infrastructure-network-for-5-years/amp/

I've found the following work-around works pretty well. If you host an instance that's currently on 0.19.0 or 0.19.1, consider implementing this.

There are two bugs that this helps with:

• Outgoing federation stops after about 6 hours
• Another federation bug which is triggered if the server isn't running at midnight every night

Work-around:
Create cronjobs that restart the Lemmy container every 6 hours (but not at midnight). The following example is used for a Debian system running Lemmy in Docker.

Type crontab -e into the terminal Add something like the following:

~~0 1 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1
0 7 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1
0 13 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1
0 19 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1~~

3 1-23/6 * * * docker container restart lemmy-postgres-1 && sleep 60 && docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1

By restarting the container every 6 hours, outbound federation continues to work. There may still be some delays, but everything gets cleared up regularly.

By telling it what time to restart (0100, 0700, 1300, and 1900 as opposed to "every 6 hours"), it avoids restarting at midnight. This avoids the second bug.

My instance has been doing this for enough days where I'm confident that it's working. You can check your federation status here. Note that it's normal for there to be 0 up-to-date instances and a lot of lagging instances. As long as they sometimes turn "up to date", then everything is getting caught up.

We have a small but dedicated user base. The community has daily posts to share your shave of the day (SOTD) so you can easily see what other people have been using. Other posts are allowed, like mail calls, reviews, or any other interesting shave content.

Yes, we really enjoy shaving that much!

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