@dvgmacdonald@ifixcoinops Without just making my own suggestions here ;) a good way is to open "software" or whatever the graphical installer is called for your distro and search in there (you can then install the thing, try it out, and uninstall if it doesn't seem useful very easily)
@ghorwood@robsonfletcher I think the "install software" experience is one of the best differences; clicking through 900 "next" buttons in a bespoke installer for everything on Windows sucks.
On any popular linux distro, you browse the available software and click install. Then it's done, and gets updated when you do updates. These days the amount of choice is the main "hard thing" (which is a great problem to have in a lot of ways). Obviously exceptions to this rule, but ...
A middle-school or high-school, for example, has 3 different grades. Covid wiped out two of those for many sports. So now you have zero "experienced" players, no teachers who are "used" to organizing, etc.
I mention youth here because it "trickles up" in everything. I also mentor a FIRST FTC team -- same dynamic. Adult Ultimate: same. Local meetups: just beginning now. Organizers are starting from "approximately nothing" in a lot of these areas...
Flask-Mail 0.10 released, after a 10 year hiatus! Thanks to @wlach for picking it up at the #PyConUS sprint. This is part of my Pallets-Eco initiative to get old popular extensions maintained again. It's been unarchived and refreshed. I went through and closed out a lot of the issue backlog. We'll have to figure out what a 1.0 release will look like. https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-mail/releases/tag/0.10.0#Python#Flask
@wlach@davidism Similarly, it is far less likely that I'd be a #magicWormhole contributor (and maintainer!) today if it wasn't for PyCon 2016 (where it was introduced, and I met Brian Warner for the first time).
Nice to see some old software gain a maintainer :)
@mistersql If it's very small (or white-on-white) would a human actually notice? Are pre-scanning systems smart enough to look at the meta like "text colour"?
"using linux is difficult. i think it would be simpler for me, a lone consumer in a mid-sized city, to bend the corporate behemoth that is microsoft to my will" is an absolutely wild take.
@bamboombibbitybop@ghorwood The two I have personal experience with: System76 (for more budget-conscious) or Purism / Librem (if you'd be looking at a macbook air or similar).
Both come with Debian-derived custom OSes, and IME have a pretty good "first use" experience (especially the Librem, which has full-disk encryption out of the box).
@bamboombibbitybop@ghorwood I don't mean to exclude others, there are lots of options these days which is nice! (e.g. Framework looks interesting for "somewhat technical, but not Linux" people).
@davidr@alecthegeek I greatly prefer 4 for legibility (and agree with the other comments of "use 100 characters").
I use like 22pt or bigger typeface and still have plenty of room for those occasional (or at least -- should be occasional!) longer lines.
Two-space indenting can be good for JSON or other deeply-nested structures with 'shallow' + delimited blocks, but 4 is "basically standard".
(I did once see a "3" codebase; it is now 4).
#booksuggestions anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like #StarTrek for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.
Not necessarily looking for Sci-Fi but not excluding it either. Maybe something historical or steampunky would be cool. 😅
Does anyone happen to know if it is possible to get a projector for an open space at #PyConUS? I have some ideas that involve discussions of code where it would be useful if a participant could share their screen with a larger group.
@encthenet I'll re-check, but I'm 99% sure there's already a C dependency in magic-wormhole (definitely Rust, because "cryptography") so as long as there's Python bindings, could work?
(It does use Twisted though so that might make it harder, depending on whether "the C library" does I/O itself or not)