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ooh I remember hearing about that. I'll edit my original comment.

i wonder if cira is having issues because searching domains on their site is returning an error, and i've tried a few different domain registrars and all .ca domains seems to be coming up as unavailable.

they're listed on their website as "available"? https://www.gandi.net/en-CA/domain/tld/ca

i thought i had a .ca with them at one point in time, but could be wrong too. i dunno.

~~not Canadian, but gandi is based in France and offers an api to update dns for free with domain registration through them. i think their prices are decent too? it's been a while since i've looked at them.~~

i'm guessing a lot of the smaller domain registrars aren't going to offer dynamic dns.

edit: avoid gandi. bought out by private equity firm, now jacking up renewal prices. i heard that previously but had forgotten about it. sorry!

mine is hunter2.

edit: oh crap it didn't star it out for me!

For bitwarden/discord, there's a few alternatives that could be self-hosted, for those that are comfortable with doing that. Aside from that, not sure what else is Canadian? i've listed what i could remember.

• cloudflare
  • i don't know if there's a site that has everything that cloudflare does, but moving your domains to a Canadian registrar is a step in the right direction, IMO.
  • depending on what you need for site hosting, there are many canadian-based hosting solutions out there. i've personally used lunanode for vps hosting, but there's a lot out there.
• bitwarden
  • i host my own instance of vaultwarden, an easy to host and open source compatible bitwarden server.
  • 1Password is Canadian i believe? never used them myself.
• discord
  • i don't think there's a good Canadian answer here, and definitely nothing as polished, but there are a few open-source projects that could be self-hosted:
    • matrix
    • revolt
    • there's probably others that i'm forgetting

I've also been running linux as my main os lately too, which has been a nice change so far.

I've owned the Henson for a few years now and love it. worth every penny.

i shave one, maybe two times a week (I'm older and lazier now haha) and should probably change my blade more often than I do. that being said, I probably change it out every 2 months or so?

i rarely cut myself, and I'm not typically very careful with it. maybe it's the blades I use? probably also depends on your skin, etc. i think that I used to cut myself more often with my disposables, etc.

anyways, like others have said, I bought a big 100 pack of Feather blades, and I've still working on that initial pack.