This has been my experience too. I migrated a few dozen projects from DO to Hetzner, and my monthly bill went from about $80 to around $162. The only thing that changed was Hetzner's rate hikes.
Now I'm in a weird spot. I could downgrade some servers, but changing them would immediately move me onto the new pricing. So I either pay more for less hardware, or pay a lot, lot more if I ever need to scale back up.
Nodding along with everything you wrote here, but one minor point for anyone who might read the bylaws and get confused. https://www.python.org/psf/bylaws/
> Section 5.15. Limits on Co-affiliation of Board Members. No more than one quarter (1/4) of the members of the Board of Directors may share a common affiliation as defined in Section 5.14.
The PSF allows three board members to share an affiliation, 13 seats * 0.25 ~= 3.25.
BTH, that's one too many, and I helped write/recommend the original language. When I was on the board, three felt like too many, even though everyone was wonderful, and it was Google, not Microsoft, that hit the limit.
The DSF (Django Software Foundation) recently adopted a two-person limit, which I recommend more boards consider.
Django 6.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 6.0 release cycle and is an opportunity to try out the changes coming in Django 6.0.
UV is great but also builds on existing PEPs. While they have the ability experiment (which is great), they also benefit from those "endless non productive discussions on peps" as you called it.
I think UV proves that dedicated funding can make a huge impact on a project and benefit for the community. They are a doing a damn, good job.
These companies are either setting all-time profit and revenue numbers or just missing last year's all-time records. Wall Street wasn't happy that they just missed their growth targets, but keep in mind that all growth is compounded. So they have never been more profitable, and yet here we are.
Hi, I'm a PSF Director and the PSF's Treasure as of this year. For transparency, our tax returns as of 2018 (and soon 2019) are up on https://www.python.org/psf/records/
You are right that this donation does not show up in our tax filings because they provide it to any OSS project.
I had good luck with a low carb (in my case Keto diet). Definitely check with your doc (or another doc) but you might try removing wheat and some dairy and seeing how you feel. I used to get stomach bloat and an upset stomaches but after starting Keto, I have been stomach issue freeing going on 4+ months. I'd start with a food diary and noting how you feel physically and energy wise after every meal since a doctor is going to ask for that anyways. It might help you spot some trends. The MyFirstnessPal app (free version) does a pretty good job of making this easy btw. Good luck!
You might checkout out [Duet](https://www.duetdisplay.com/) which I have used for years (currently on the 12.9 iPad Pro) and really takes the edge off for me. It works perfectly and turn an iPad into a damn good display.
FireTV is built on Android and has a real controller for gaming. It won't compete with Steam Machines for high-end games but there's certainly enough hardware to pull off some great games and apps.
My girlfriend's iPhone 4s updated to iOS7 and refused to activate. After four or five hours of going through support and then a trip to the Apple store, Apple confirmed that the hardware was fine but something went wrong on the upgrade. The "Genuis" told us that's it's "unfortunate" that things like wifi sometimes break when you upgrade your phone's OS because of the stress that it puts your phone through. Their only solution was to buy a used phone of the same model for $200 from them. Our request to have downgrade back to iOS6 (we have both an iTunes backup and an iCloud backup) was refused because the "Genuises" can't even do it. I even offered to pay them to fix that phone and we were told they couldn't do it.
We refused to pay Apple to replace her phone and I bought her a friend's spare phone in the meanwhile. My first and only bad experience with Apple so far but quite disappointing to say the least.
I think Garry is being pretty genuine here. I suspect some of the snark on this post stems from Posterous's overly aggressive marketing campaign from a few years back which started off here: http://blog.posterous.com/make-the-switch-to-posterous