Hey all.

I had my routine down to the point taking it for granted. I had settled into brush and bar soap ( mostly Irish spring) using persona USA made blades.

It was comfortable for me, blades lasted about a week each, no nicks or cuts for years now.

I went to reorder the blades and they were now 2x what I last paid.

I ordered a box of Indian made astra blades and it was like I was new at shaving again. They only last a shave or 2 with water.

Does anyone have a hidden gem cheap blade?

I have made the astra work for me using an alcohol gel instead of soap but I wasn’t looking to be that hard on my skin daily.

Does anyone here have a good shave with astra blades? What’s your routine?

LLM scrapers and bots are a continuing challenge. Lemmy is not behind Cloudflare and custom filtering rules using NGINX only gets you so far.

I'm trying the setting called "Private Instance".

It's my understanding that all this does is require a user to be logged in to use the instance. This will hopefully cut down or stop the constant scraping. Preliminary signs are that it helps a ton.

• walden