Ah might be right. I believe the one side hinge replacement netted you a new display cable, not a new antenna now that I think of it.

Not just an uninitiated person. I had done thousands and still occasionally severed them.

I believe in this model the antenna is replacable though?

I don’t think Windows uses a microkernel. Hybrid kernel is the term I’ve heard used.

Wouldn’t that be UPS?

Direct Rendering Manager I believe

Perhaps one day it’ll just be systemd at this rate

Might want to try chmod +x instead

Eh when sales says “we made this” it means the whole company in my mind, not them stealing the credit.

Now we sales says “we’ll make this” is when you have a problem.

FIFA 17, Roblox and Minecraft? Yeah I reckon a modern integrated GPU is just fine.

But unfortunately it seems like your friend’s preferred games aren’t all that Linux friendly. Maybe get him addicted to a Steam library on Windows first and then you can win him over using Proton lol

Knight rider theme and I’m going criminal charge fast

There’s a localization module available for the US, it should handle the arcane tax code and everything, but I haven’t tried.

You get access to the source code you use. If you pay for an enterprise license, you can access the enterprise source code too, but it’s indeed a proprietary license, you can’t really sell modifications.

I do wish it was fully free & open source (because that wouldn’t affect me, I’m not on their payroll, I just work with the software), but I still prefer the current model over Dynamics 365 or SAP (though I believe Microsoft open sourced some or all of their Dynamics 365 Business Central code too? I haven’t really kept up).

If Odoo ever decides to close their open source business and only offer it with a closed source, you bet your ass there are going to be dozens of forks of the latest open source version. I’m fairly sure my own employer would do the same, our CTO is an open source evangelist. Would probably RiiR the core even.

Not sure why you think the FTC would be the best body to talk to here. Odoo is not an American company, but rather a Belgian one.

Free in FOSS stands more for what you’re allowed to do than what it costs. The devs have to support themselves somehow, the project is absolutely massive and has a bunch of dedicated developers on the payroll.

spread across multiple FOSS alternatives

And you’ve already lost hopes of gaining significant market share.

The fact that Facebook does everything is what keeps people coming back. I haven’t scrolled my feed in years, but I still make use of Marketplace and Messenger sometimes. It’s the network effect at play too.

You can try out Odoo, it’s heavily customizable so you can add in the parts you don’t find existing modules for - and customize existing modules too.

When I was on Windows, I used SumatraPDF. It’s literally tiny and I never really missed any features.

Jesus your country is so messed up :(

They stand to save a lot of money

Do they? They’ll now have to start training people to use Linux.

These people aren’t going to be enthusiasts like us. They need to be shown where everything is.

To be clear, while Linux has won much of the mobile market - FreeBSD still has roughly a third of the market worldwide, and more than half in the US for an example.

I feel like the popularity of the LAMP stack (or WAMP if you were just starting out your interest in software and hadn’t yet moved to Linux) in the 00s and early 10s is to blame here. MySQL ended up being the default choice for people who didn’t know much about databases.

Now that I know more than I did at the age of 14 when I first started learning programming… I’ll be honest, I’m still likely to choose MySQL just because it’s familiar. But at least I know what indices are now, and I try to avoid dependent subqueries :)

To be fair, I feel like I should use Postgresql more, I just haven’t actually ever worked on anything that needed the cool data types it has extensions for.