For frameback be sure to try one of the thin Japanese ones, they're almost like a stiff hollow and kind of sing. Hm, others... have you tried a lancet blade? Sheffield with a rattler grind? With a taper? Oh! What about the Wilkinson Pall Mall / Dunhill? It takes (quarter hollow) wedge blades but can use Gem too. Not only does it have a roller guard but you can adjust the exposure. Neat thing.

Speaking of Gem blades, you know you can pull the spine off a Gem and use it in that Autostrop right?

Does your 472 have the decorated spine like the worn one I picked up early in my exploration of straights and still keep with the edge it came with as one of my references? https://imgur.com/a/QJX47Yg

Sorry, I just peeked at the config options and have never run any of this so no idea about the interaction with Lemmy or how to troubleshoot that. What I'd do though is spin up a toy instance on another subdomain/locally in a container and try to reproduce it there. Maybe with a copy of the data from production if that's easy enough to pull off.

But ya only in retrospect - I wouldn't have expected changing the banner or icon to be a risky operation.

Just poked around because I was curious, it does look like the config for pict-rs lets you specify a format to convert things to and a max size/quality: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main/pict-rs.toml#L237

I'd suggest WebP with a quality of 85 and max dimensions of 3840x3840 (because 4k is 3840x2160).

That takes djundjila's photo for today (a 4236x2677 jpeg) from 1.9Mb down to 360Kb for a 3840x2427 WebP.

You might also consider AVIF as that's widely supported as well and looking like it'll probably become the new standard but for now is a bit CPU intensive until CPUs start adding SIMD for it. Too bad JPEGXL lost momentum, it was kinda better (and less CPU intensive). But if the server doesn't mind chewing on it ...that same SotD as a quality 66 AVIF is just 160Kb, eg. less than a tenth the size.

For more info about quality settings: https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/avif-webp-quality-settings/

Thanks for your efforts and yay, that works here too! I can paste them even. Nice. Interestingly, I copied a JPG by right clicking in Firefox and it wound up as a PNG when I pasted that. But maybe that's the browser? Still, it'd be neat if the site converts to something more efficient like WebP and maybe caps the res at 4k ...though maybe storage is cheap enough at this point that we could each put a full res SotD from our phones for the next decade without really being a burden? ...and now I wonder if the transcoding can be done client side via wasm or something. Yawn, I should sleep, rambling.

Oh! One thing though: earlier I tried pasting my SotD to another Lemmy instance to see if that works and it did fine. I didn't post it and cancelled the preview. However the image stuck around. Wondered if and how those get mopped up, maybe a cron job? It seems to be there still some hours later, might check tomorrow just out of curiosity.

(heh I think you restarted while I was trying to post this so will also be interesting if the image persists, though presumably shouldn't be orphaned now that it's referenced in a comment?)

Thanks, that'll do for my purposes anyhow as I only get around to this once or twice a year so we'll probably have something set up by the next time I bother to list something.

Curious what you're referring to re: username spoofing though, that seems concerning. Do you just mean the ability to create walden@lemmy.world or something and potentially confuse users that don't understand the federated nature of the platform? Or something sneakier?

Thanks! Things are looking up so here's hoping... also hope you guys rid yourselves of it soon enough.

Thanks for the kind offer, I'll take you up on that.

Just make sure to stay away from Personna hair shaper blades. They feel scrapy

Are the "diane" Fromm ones on Amazon any good?

As for Kismet, is the best source crp-solingen on eBay?

FWIW the earlier Autostrops can use a Gem blade if you pull the spine off of it (which is easy enough if you have a vise to hold it) or, alternatively, apparently the Feather FHS-10 are compatible (and afaik widely distributed).

Does anyone find synthetic knots get worse over time? I've now had a couple go from super soft to quite soft but slightly scratchy like the very tips of the fibres break off leaving a subtly harsh contact surface. They still lather fine, just less pleasant to use.

Ha! Well, one so far. But I started with it and it was a good one so ya, it'd have made sense for me to pick up more. However at the time I was looking for variety and figured I had that box checked, just haven't circled back yet. Almost did pick up another now that I think of it but sat on it too long and someone snagged it. My first Imperial is so very patiently waiting in purgatory for scales. I like my Puma a lot but it's my only one. Hm. Ok maybe this is a pattern... Still no Shumate nor Waterville nor Ramapo though so if I was going to make a point of shopping for an American razor I'd probably lean that way. You may have been very wise specialising your collection... And nice score on that Imperial!

Welcome, good to see you here.