dustinmr

I had Omarchy and then a Niri desktop installed on a Windows Surface Pro 3 for a while.

I did find it was handy to scroll with the touch screen occasionally. More an artifact of being a regular iPad user than anything else.

But if I need to do anything else I immediately go to the trackpad or keyboard.

The accounting is very similar. The processes are not. Small businesses continue to be special snowflakes in terms of how they do their work. Both for good and bad reasons.

I’m surprised an open source accounting package hasn’t popped up that handles the accounting well. The backend could largely be the same (or at least modular) while the front legitimately needs to vary based on what type of work, how sales are done, whether they hold inventory, local taxes, etc, etc.

It’s the Department of Defense

I have one I bought in 2008. My parents still use it. Replace batteries and filters. Works fine.

Gets stuck on cords and in corners. So does the one I bought in September 2025.

I have a few of the THINK notepads that I found in my grandfather’s things after he passed away. He was an IBM employee in the 50s and 60s.

I remember picking the first one up and saying out loud, “that’s where the name came from!”

The author is identifying a technical problem (it’s become so cheap/easy to insert ads they’re everywhere). Technical answers? How about require that it be easy to opt out, or simply remove the ads from the content. Codify ad-blocking software.

And I like to give them kudos when I see Digital Ocean mentioned. I run a business in Puerto Rico, and host our ERP and some other services with DO.

After Hurricane Maria in 2017, I wrote off island suppliers asking for any support they could give. DO write back very quickly crediting us 3 months of hosting based on our prior billing.

And besides, the rep sent a very nicely written note wishing us the best. It was a very human response. Good people to do business with.

I believe the complaint is that I have to renew that decision regularly.

Also known as not a free market.

Seems like an important detail to number one is to properly manage the way that gets presented to the client.

In the OPs case it sounds like if they do that, they won’t realize a benefit. Their client will expand the work to fill the available time.

I do the same to myself often. It’s hard to avoid.

Sometimes known as the “Golden Arches Theory of Diplomacy”