Thursday Daily Question Thread (Newbie Friendly) - August 3, 2023

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
Favorite scents, bases, etc
Where to buy certain items
Identification of a razor you just bought
Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here.

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Did you notice that one of my SOTD posts wasn't visible by some people? @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social did! I changed some language settings for the instance, which should clear up any future "hidden" posts.

I believe the problem was that I had enabled a couple of languages for the instance -- "undetermined", and "english". My profile had the same two languages selected. When I made my post, I must have selected "English" as the language, which was allowed per the instances settings. DJ likely didn't have "English" as a selected language for his account, and therefor it wasn't shown.

That's my guess, anyway.

So, the settings are now set to "undetermined" as the only language. When anyone makes a post, there should be no options in the "language" dropdown, and all posts should be visible so long as their profile has the default "undetermined" selected.

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- It's odd. It seems to be that as long a I have "undetermined" set for me, I should see messages in every language.
  
  Anyway, it now works, so that's good
  
  Edit: Nope, "undetermined" isn't a catch-all for every language, but literally matches only posts where the language is undetermined. Think of "undetermined" as a language, and if you also want to see English/Français/Whatever, you need to allow them too in your profile settings
  
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- Thanks for the info!
  
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I'm traveling with my two year old during Austere August and the Days of Weckoning, and I've come up with this contraption to keep the blade safely out of Djunior's reach:

It's a leather cigar box (so moisture can still escape) with a hole drilled through so I can lock it with a standard TSA cable lock. But it got me thinking: are there better ways?

Have you ever had to keep your toddler and straights/shavettes separate while traveling in hotels? How did you solve this issue?

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- Drill a hole through the razor and use the same lock.
  
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  Next, I'll drop through my Wade and Butchers 👍😅
  
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- This looks very neat! Where did you get that cigar box?
  
  My technique was rather security by obscurity: make sure to hide it somewhere inconspicuous and in a boring environment.
  
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  I got it from an online cigar shop here in Switzerland. The Cuba design was on 70% discount, so the price wasn't ridiculous.
  
  Security by obscurity seemed a bit too insecure while traveling😅
  
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- Thinking about it, maybe you could get zip ties to work, though with this particular razor, you could probably slide them off to one side or the other.
  
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  That would work for the transit, but would be a bit cumbersome during the day-to-day🤔
  
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