See if an office equipment seller is doing office clearances and you can get some office chairs for less than $100 most likely (I got one for £50)

What is the purpose of the device? I’m almost certain that there is another option, which is just a small PC running whatever software you need.

it is subscription, you pay per user per month. It is quite cheap imo, but I understand if you don’t want to pay any subscription. But in that case you can just try to self host it instead.

I’ve used odoo before, it is a large piece of software and can be modified to do lots of things. Most likely you will be able to get it to do what you want. You’ll probably need the e-commerce module, there is probably some sort of mode for subscriptions. You can also add the CRM on top for marketing, etc. there is also the booking module (iirc) which is maybe useful for sessions with trainers etc. maintenance might also be useful.

Racist

Pls don’t put a tariff on solar panels and evs, I want one

Using windows is also massively wasteful, it spends probably more than half of the processor usage on analytics and tracking stuff. Linux or other free kernels are much better in terms of power usage, on old and new hardware

So have many others, except they didn’t start a company based on it. As soon as it is part of a company, it is no longer free and open

tbh I’m scared of the power the gov already has. I am worried if I join any communist org, it will endanger my partners immigration status. I also don’t see the orgs around me doing much useful stuff it seems, mostly just selling newspapers (that no one buys cos they cost a fiver)

Starmer is like like 1 cm left of rishi

Of course, google is trying to dissuade you from using other app stores, nothing more. You might be able to download and install it from GitHub using obtainium if you really want to verify the origin of the app.

Seems slightly unnecessary unless you have loads lying around, I’m still using a 10 year old dual core i3 and it doesn’t sweat running 60 services, and I can expand the storage much more than a Mac mini.

Yep get a second hand Kobo for £30 and install Koreader on it. Or if you fancy, Kindles can be had cheaper, but they will require a jailbreak to use Koreader.

Free market capitalism inevitably leads to monopolies. Political economists wrote about this in the early 20th century; have a read of “Imperialism: The highest stage of capitalism” sections 1-5 are most relevant but the rest is also.

Yes, just don’t assume that self-hosting is out of the question

Apologies, the times have made me too cynical

Is this astroturfing

Probably optical transmission of an image

I would definitely still go with containers, running baremetal is less secure, more fiddly and less reproducible

You could do all of them