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Nivea sensitive shaving cream? In the squeeze tube? I bought sooooo much of the back stock when they stopped making it.

Also: 11" MacBook Air. Strawberry Shortcake SkinnyCow ice cream sandwiches. McCormick Perfect Pinch Tuscan Seasoning with Sun Dried Tomato.

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Nivea sensitive shaving cream? In the squeeze tube?

I used to care about such things. Then I just embraced the inescapable endless change, and started using soap.

If you wet your hair first, then put on the soap, I find it not too bad.

Just embrace it. Because they just keep changing stuff.

Proper shaving soap and a brush to apply it works better for me than the stuff in the tube. A refil lasts me a year

Proraso is great for a no-nonsense lather.

> 11” MacBook Air

Here’s hoping for a revival of the 12” MacBook with an M series chip. That’d be so good.

I LOVED my 11" Air, bought one in 2010, used it daily as my only laptop until 2017, gave it to my son who used it until he graduated in 2019. I replaced it with a 13" MBP which I also really like. MBP died a cat-related falling off the table tragedy recently so I pulled out the Air and was shocked--in 12ish years, my eyes no longer think its tiny screen is reasonably viewable. I wish they'd make another 11" with a retina display, but I guess Apple knows best, I replaced the 13" MBP with another 13" MBP, an M1 this time.

RIP 17" MacBook Pro too.

Actually come to think of it. If I love a product it's rare I can ever find it again.

I mean, there’s a 16in mbp now that is almost identical.

Mine finally died so I'm going to have to get a new one, but I've always felt like the 16in have never been nearly what I wanted compared to the 17in. From the discrete GPU to the ports offered to the weight it is all just not quite what I want compared to the 17in.

You've always been able to get the 15" with discrete graphics. There was a brief period where the 17" could be configured with slightly more VRAM, but regardless of how much you spent, the GPUs in those computers still sucked.

The 16" was first released in 2019, and has always had both integrated and discrete GPUs. I do think the connectivity configuration is a little restrictive and one dimensional, but there's no way you could convince me to use a 17" 2011, what with it being limited to USB 2.0 and FW800 (no thunderbolt!). Thankfully this point is moot, because the 2021 16" MBP has really great connectivity.

I'm confused by your comment about weight -- you actually want a heavier computer? The 2021 16" is 30% lighter than the 17" and smaller in all three dimensions. The 2021 16" MBP GPU is light years ahead of even the previous generation 16", let alone the 17" from 2011.

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