[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

can you imagine how much water you can boil with your own tiny sun? we are going to be boiling so much water.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

yeah, I had a name picked out for me long before I knew I was trans. It was just, "The girl name I identify with" in my head. There were no signs.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Same, but I was thinking that no way I'd go back to the old one. But my current name doesn't have an obvious gender flip, so I'd have to come up with an entirely new name again.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 114 points 4 weeks ago

It just means the internet is built on a very flimsy stack of technologies and any of them failing causes huge downstream issues. We saw that with AWS, and now with Cloudflare.

It's only concerning if there are no alternatives, but as it stands there are other companies that all of these websites could have done a failover to when both AWS or Cloudflare went down. But they decided that their websites having a single point of failure was worth the risk over paying for having a proper backup system ready to go.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 53 points 1 month ago

Z- This whole sector is uncharted
K- It's not uncharted. You lost the chart.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 101 points 3 months ago

We can only hope that old Lindsey Graham quote is true,
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it."

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 100 points 5 months ago

I assume it had to do with the parents being supporters too.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 71 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 55 points 6 months ago

What if Vampirism is a bacterial infection and it makes the wielder drink blood because that is what sustains the bacteria. I think I'm just imagining Parasite Eve again, but with bacteria in place of mitochondria.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 83 points 8 months ago

So was it just random that their fur is orange and not green? As both would help hunt prey just as well. Or is the advantage of being orange, that it wards away other tigers and predators that might otherwise muscle into its territory and create conflict.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 47 points 8 months ago

Though just because you can see such fine movements doesn't mean you can react fast enough to stop it. You'd just see your loss coming from a mile away.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by VivianRixia@piefed.social to c/googlepixel@lemmy.world

I'm currently on the market for a new phone and I see stores selling a Pixel 8 for $500.
It's on the higher end of what I want to pay, but I see it has extended support over the Pixel 7.
I also see the Pixel 8a is $400, which is a nicer price for me, but since my plan is to use the phone long term, I figure the mainline model has sturdier build quality. There is also the upcoming Pixel 9a for $500, if I'm willing to wait and get the cheaper model branch but with the most modern features.

Can someone with experience using these phones help me pick something? I've never owned a pixel and looking online it seems like they each have their own issues to contend with. But I like the custom rom support I see for these phones that would give it a far extended lifetime over most other brands out there.

EDIT (Dec24):
Thank you everyone for your opinions. I saw the support for the Pixel 7 and decided to buy one on swappa over the Pixel 8. And since support for the pixel 7 ends in less than 3 years, I'll probably install GrapheneOS right off the bat. I also did research on Sub-6 vs mmWave as I saw both models were offered and decided on Sub-6 as the more practical technology. Looking forward to this.

[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 40 points 1 year ago

Once again, I hate that I'm cheering for Liz Cheney.

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