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There is a large, growing Russian diaspora and many writers/artists create works in exile. The language helps if you want to understand the millions who left their homes out of principle, but they are not the "enemy".

Thanks for the transparency + analysis.

I've been a happy Fastmail customer for 11+ years and will continue to be so. Everyone wrote that their experience with FM support has been good, but I've been even luckier: until today I never needed support. One bug per decade is a great record.

I am the OP.

I admit my second message was terse, but the correct social media response for a critical outage is "we're looking into it". Not "if you want support, go here".

Like I said, I do not have time to hunt for whatever support channels exist and file a ticket. I pay $50 a year so they can deliver a working product, including triaging their own issues.

I had EVO ICL done ~10 months ago. My contact prescription was -7.25 left / -6.75 right with thin corneas so I wasn't a great candidate for LASIK. Weighed costs of ICL vs PRK and opted for the former (mostly recovery time concerns + as you mention ICL can be removed). Dollar cost was ~9.2k USD, so it was significantly higher than other options.

Recovery was very quick. I was 20/40 a few hours after surgery and 20/15 the following day (could have worked at computer, but took the day off). Pretty intense dry eyes initially, but eye drops helped and this improved over next couple months.

10 months later, vision is still great (though I expect my eyes to continue their normal progression). Halo-ing effects at night are stronger than I expected (believe they're related to pupil size + hole in center of lens), but I've mostly learned to ignore it (I also now prefer not to drive at night). Minor dry eyes but might try NAC supplement as suggested elsewhere in discussion.

I'd do it again in a heartbeat (hated dealing with contacts on camping trips) but wish I'd been more informed of halo-ing risks.

Canceling The Economist was the worst experience of any periodical, by far. You were right not to continue.

Recently canceled and (from transcript) it took 18+ minutes chatting with an online rep. They made sure I knew all the various benefits (newsletters, podcasts, etc), offered me multiple price discounts, and insisted that I try a slimmed down experience ("Espresso") for a month before truly canceling. I'll never consider re-subscribing.

I've settled on this over the years:

    play -c 2 --null synth brownnoise reverb bass 6 treble -3

It's close to the myNoise brown preset, IMO, if a little bass heavier.

I use stylish to apply my own (quick and easy) dark mode to hckr news:

  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    body { background-color: #444; color: #ccc; }
    .entries a:hover { background-color: #666; }
    .c00 { color: #ccc; }
    a:link, .c00 a:link { color: #ddd; }
    textarea { background-color: #555; color: #ddd; }
    .pagetop { color: #ddd; }
    .pagetop a { color: #eee !important; }
    #hnmain > tbody:first-child > tr:first-child td { background-color: #630; }
  }