A reminder in this weather: A nice thing to do for delivery drivers (in addition to a tip, where appropriate) is to give or leave them a bottle or two of cold water. They often don't have time to pick up supplies or make personal stops.
My UPS guy was so appreciative (and surprised) that I swear he'd take a bullet for me now.
No, it does not seem to be the same story as The machine stops.
My guess, after watching episode 2 is that the "outside" we've seen so far is not any outside at all, but just a chamber filled with poison. It was very obvious, of course, that the helmet was a screen, but that just made me think the outside maybe was really poisonous. I feel a bit stupid that I didn't think of the second layer of the Matrix until computer guy mentioned the door at the end.
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