I remember reading some Reddit comments about certain camera functions no longer working. I bought the pixel for the camera and I don’t want to break that functionality.

Disclaimer: I’ve never really looked into different OS’s and what they do/don’t do

Yeah I did that with an old Motorola, it went for years. Now I have a pixel and it seems to come with a lot of features that break when installing an alternative OS

Well, I was mostly concerned about google knowing where I’m shopping. I know using google pay is lazy buy I’m not perfect…

Does NFC still work? (I know that low key defeats the purpose of a privacy oriented android build but yeah)

As opposed to other years when they were looking great

Whole thing lasts no more than 15-20 minutes. I took it easy for a few days but otherwise no issues. Was riding my bike and all that about five days after.

The only uncomfortable bit is when they put the anaesthetic… there’s no easy way of saying this, but they have to stick the needle in both of the sperm ducts. That’s a little uncomfortable but it lasts no more than 5 seconds per nut. From there on out no issues. You feel some stuff moving around down there, but no pain.

I had the scalpel free method, fwiw.

My clinic sent me this video to prep. It’s quite useful. https://youtu.be/gzpYhe8QBsA

I am grateful for how NZ handled it. I’m mostly critiquing the very end of the pandemic when the government started going against ministry advice. I appreciate how lucky we were. I don’t know anyone who died from covid.

Based on my experience talking to people that probably aren’t from NZ (let alone Auckland), this view is illegal on Lemmy

Why is it good they were ruthless? Did you live here? Do you know what happened? Is it based on science to force mandates on a population that’s already 95 percent vaccinated? Because it was definitely not what our Ministry of Health recommended…

At the time the mandates were active, Auckland was 95 percent vaxed and rife with covid. At that stage, was it worth it telling five percent of the population they were not allowed to be anywhere but in a supermarket? Was it reasonable taking their jobs away from them? Did the costs outweigh the benefits?

The government’s covid response did a lot of damage to NZ. My wife is a therapist and works with victims of sexual and domestic abuse. Turns out that locking people up with their abusers for months on end is… Very bad for people too.

Vax mandates lead to a huge division in society, including racial and political divides. It will take a long time to recover from that.

I’m not saying all lockdowns are bad, I’m not saying vaccines are bad, I’m saying there’s a cost benefit analysis to be made, and NZ definitely went above and beyond what was reasonable. Towards the end, cabinet kept going against ministry recommendations. Their covid response had become a political tool, not a response based on reason.

Good job on trying, but it seems like there’s little room for nuanced debate here because “antivaxer stupid”

I’m also assuming a lot of people here don’t realise Auckland spent four months locked in their houses while they threatened to keep us there forever unless the entire fucking country had 90 percent vaccination rates… and they pursued the mandates even at those high vaccination rates. Against the MoH advice…

My wife is a therapist and she is still dealing with the fallout of those lockdowns.

I saw people lose their jobs and get excluded from society in a city that was 95 percent vaccinated, while somehow all my vaccinated friends and myself were sick of covid.

The level of punitive damage done by the mandates was beyond scientific reason. It also went against ministry of health recommendations.

I moved to NZ about 7 years ago and lived through this. I supported the earlier lockdowns and got the vaccine before it became mandated.

Having said that, the mandates that the government pursued were absolutely ruthless, and put in place at a time where efficacy was already reduced due to new variants. It did a lot of harm to society, and we still live with those consequences today.

There’s a new government and a complete shift in power. The enquiry is neutral. Nobody’s patting themselves on the back.

They’re still immeasurably better than Spotify, both for artists and in terms of bitrate…