I am the Eschaton. I am not your god.

I am descended from you, and I exist in your future.

Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.

-- from Singularity Sky (2003), by Charles Stross

Nope, this is one of those "experience is the best teacher" sort of situations. Right now, my parents' account is the Plan B. As soon as possible, switching to other accounts and keeping the minimum allowable balance (and closing my high interest savings account).

This has been an interesting experience for me. I wonder whether I should contribute to the Wikipedia article about this debacle in 6 months' time. The best communication I found comes from this reddit post by Patelco members: https://www.reddit.com/r/bayar...

The freenode guy failed at a simpler thing. I am sure he will fail at a harder thing.

More than 5 (maybe 10?) years ago, I remember Microsoft opened and ran a "Microsoft Store" in Westfield Valley Fair Mall (San Jose), right by its Apple Store. It was funny to see the packed Apple Store, right across from the empty Microsoft Store. If I had a smart phone then, I would have posted a comparison video pair!

Off the highway, I drive 5-10 mph below the speed limit.

Ultimate irony of ironies, is that a Chinese or Russian hosting center volunteers to host them, and Parler agrees!

Well, it's no battling seizure robots!

Plex with the Plexamp app to listen to your music.

I concur with other responses to this message. Why go through all this trouble when this company makes your life difficult? For instance, I moved to Plexamp, and I couldn't be happier: Like Google Play Music, I can play my songs on my car radio through my car's Bluetooth; my music immediately updates on changes I make to the music files on my Plex server; Plexamp is much more reliable than Google Play Music's app, and service ever was.

By this article's definition, I program through the cloud during this shelter in place. I have a VPN through which I SSH into my work machines. I launch Emscs on my local machine, and use TRAMP to load code remotely. And I use TMUX to manage my remote command line environments.

About 7-9 years ago, the relatively huge memory usage of full-fledged IDEs for Python programming (such as Pycharm and Eclipse) really turned me off, so I continued to stick with Emacs. As my Python programming became more sophisticated, I installed Emacs modules (such as flyspeck and Jedi) that implemented necessary elements of IDEs. However, during this current quarantine, I have been coding, editing, and oftentimes compiling files remotely through Emacs's TRAMP module. Given how starved and unreliable my connections are, using TRAMP is an exercise in pure frustration; when my connection hiccups, my Emacs session freezes from 5 seconds to 5 minutes (I give up and force-quit Emacs at 5 minutes); apparently, TRAMP's developers have designed its default behavior for only human heartbeat levels of network reliability. Therefore, I am exploring options for IDEs that fix the real-world problems of remote file editing. Any suggestions? Standard solutions, such as SSHFS or SSH tunnels, cannot apply to me, because I am working on my work laptop through an aggressive VPN, and I do not have administrative privileges on it.

XFCE or LXQT. They hit the sweet spot in functionality, memory usage, and reliability.

Pollution is down. Ecological catastrophe is unrolling more slowly. The ultimate irony maybe that a global pandemic from which we won't recover (for at least a generation) may be the only thing that can save human civilization.

I wonder if Ambrosia shows this or similar clips, https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., in their meetings to investors and customers. How do they ensure their donors aren't taking (lots of drugs) and eating (lots of) meat?