Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

"Alexa, play Halloween music"
*Zombie by The Cranberries starts playing*
... I... guess?

I have to say that unfortunately, since Mozilla took over K9 mail and turned it into Thunderbird for Android, it has really ruined the usability for me. Anyone have any recommendations for other #foss email clients?

Bonus points if they can handle sending from catch-all email addresses.

Might be a controversial opinion, but I think using freeways for long term parking might not be the most effective use of the roads...

I am unreasonably pleased that #PyBay has open wifi with no captive portal.

So this happened at TSA today, which means it's time to get new headphones. Are bone conduction headphones still the best option for headphones that you can wear all the time but you can hear it when people talk to you?

My ideal headset would be very discreet, such that people can barely tell you are wearing them (or if they are visible I would prefer if people felt comfortable talking to me while wearing them).

I do not use Apple products.

Just got hit by the thing where YouTube on mobile automatically dubs videos into the language your interface is in with no way to turn it off (WTF?!). The solution I found was to open the video in NewPipe and go to Settings > Video & Audio > Prefer original audio.

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Hmm... Should I take a few hours to buy a new computer now, or should I wait until my existing computer completely falls apart and buy one in a panic later... Choices, choices...

(Just kidding, it's definitely going to be the second one)

7 y/o: "What's Columbus Day?"
Me: "<General explanation of who Columbus was>... So basically, it celebrates when Europeans discovered America."
7 y/o: "Oh, so basically it has no purpose."

Though I will admit that there are also NO OTHER REASONS for putting lazy imports in a context manager. It's just the backwards compatibility use case and no others.

I further contend that other than `contextlib.suppress`, there is no other situation where lazy imports in a context manager could be dangerous.

*Ahem* I hereby affirmatively state that the ONLY ergonomic way to functionally backport lazy imports would be to use a context manager. Even a *genius* could not come up with a better way.

#python

I think I should have used Cunningham's law instead of asking questions in [this post](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-explicit-lazy-imports/104131/176). I suspect I would have gotten more people weighing in.

#python

First time going to a baseball game since I was a child and I am impressed with the degree to which every aspect of this is mild to moderately unpleasant, starting with the fact that in order to access the tickets it was *required* to download the "MLB Ballpark" app (which is apparently different from the "MLB" app).