ElectricMachman

A Binatone 6-in-1 Pong machine from (if I recall) around 1977. My next oldest machine is a red-label Astro Wars from 1980.

Which ones? As far as I’m aware, they’re all full-fat PS3 titles

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Nginx Proxy Manager, I assume

if I get an idea I am not happy until it start making money

That sounds extremely unsustainable

MicroOS is designed as a server OS first and foremost, but I have read some anecdotes of people using it just fine on the desktop.

You might want to look into OpenSUSE Aeon or Kalpa instead, which are immutable editions designed for the desktop, running GNOME and KDE respectively. Kalpa is in alpha (almost rhymed) but Aeon is in a more mature state.

Might be worth trying to find a refurbished HP ProLiant MicroServer. There are a few on eBay UK within the £200-400 range. You can sometimes find professionally refurbished units as well.

Why not? It would help massively with the ‘affordable’ criterion

I tend to use objects in space. My media server is called phobos, and my AzuraCast server is called dorado.

They’re a bit meaningless, though, so when I do my planned server upgrade this year I’m going to go with something different. My pfSense server was called sibyl, so perhaps something along those lines.

By that logic, nothing is reliable…? Because you could say that about literally anything

Here’s one - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43063/The-Megaprocessor/

I reported a SharePoint bug to Microsoft yesterday afternoon, and it was fixed by the time I logged in this morning.

Y’know, this conversation doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, so I will leave it here: if it’s such an easy sell, every business in the world would have done it by now.

What happens when you need to collaborate with other businesses who use O365? The business would also have to spend time updating any legacy documents, templates, spreadsheets and so on. Then you have the IT teams, who will need extensive training so that they can field the inevitable flurry of support tickets and calls. And that’s not getting into the support side of things - who do I go to if something breaks in LibreOffice?

I am an advocate for OSS, but there is a bigger picture here, and unfortunately it’s not always as simple as just switching over. I wish it was, believe me!

That sounds ripe for abuse. Say someone has a problem with me - if they wait long enough, they can now pay over the odds and effectively take over my website. Or get their friends to enter a bidding war and potentially cost me a lot of money.

It is when your business relies on Microsoft services which are inherently incompatible with LO

I don’t really have anything to add, however I will say that this sounds like a fabulous community, and I wish you luck in finding suitable software.

Who’s yelling? I’m pointing out that one can make a profit without that necessarily being the goal.

Making a profit =/= running something for profit

I understand that changes like this were to do with the rental market, which was much bigger in the US compared to Japan; the idea being that if you made your game stupidly difficult but still reasonably compelling, people would just keep renting it until they finally beat it. Pretty cheeky move.

The Affinity suite. Truth is, I don’t want to replace them because I really like how they work; I just wish there was a native Linux version, because it’s almost impossible to get it to run in Wine. Have to use a VM for the time being.

Stream Deck is another one I miss, and the FOSS alternatives just don’t cut it in terms of functionality.