mosiacmango

Yup, that’s the one. The sponsorblock app integrates directly with the youtube app. I don’t recall any config at all. Its made by siku2.

I’ve had the youtube app crash, but its infrequent and mainly seems to have something to do with it starting a new video without stopping a currently playing one.

It is cat and mouse, but it has an issue maybe every year or so, and they generally resolve it same day or next day with an app update. The hardest part is generating your own google api keys, but there are straightforward guides and you just need to do it once.

The upside? No ads at all, sponsorblock integration, and an easy 10ft interface that works great with a remote. No shitty web site to navigate with a mouse. Just a list of your videos each day. Click and play.

I cant speak to your overheating issues. I have kodi running on 4gb raspi 5s with the default case/fan. No problems. An external usb fan might help you out. I’ve used one of these with a raspi in the past. Its roughly the same size as the raspi, but dead silent. Moves insane air.

Kobo is made by Rakuten, a big Japanese tech company. I think Walmart just resells then.

Ifixit rates the repairability at 6/10. Not bad.

Lawerence systems has a recent video that is pretty indepth.

The scale is different. Dynamics is mainly an ERP like Sage or SAP. It’s something you could coordinate the movement of millions of goods through, and tens of thousands of people.

Access is a database with a GUI that you can slap more GUIs onto at your own peril. Dynamics is an iteration of " Microsoft Great plains" that was turned into an unholy monstrosity to compete with Oracle/IBM, etc

You will spend millions of dollars deploying it. It will both be bewildering too much and not enough.

Drastically different products. Its basically a full ERP with a full CRM build in. It massively outsizes Access, a DB/DBMS, in both complexity and abject stupidity.

It’s a software suite for managing company finances, but can do way, way more if you keep slapping bullshit on it. You can run a retail operation through it, for example.

It’s a big, irritating “do anything financial for any type of business” app, and like most “all in one” tools is horribly over and under designed.

Working with it is brittle, stupid, complicated and expensive.

Vates is pretty chill, as is clear in the article. I think your point is well said, but Vates likes the “vibe” of FOSS, and is willing to take a bit on the chin to keep that energy internally. A bit of “turn the other cheek.” They also clearly enjoyed the whimsy and just straight panache of being ripped off in this manner for a while. Their company is doing well and growing rapidly from an excellent product, so I doubt the money mattered much.

Well, even Jesus started kicking ass at one point with the money lenders. It looks like they are getting there now.

Vates spun up xcp-ng off the xen hypervisor and created a great “vsphere” like management plane called xen orchestra. Its a fantastic hypervisor with vsan/built in backups/etc. With vmware self immoliating after selling to Broadcom, they are an ideal stand in for vmwares primary product. Their licensing costs are wildly reasonable, even before the vmware debacle.

They have gone from “a guy” to a 100 person company in the last few years while sticking by the FOSS ethic entirely. You can build the project from source, or even grab a few github scripts that build it for you. They have always been open and clear about letting you build it and use it however you like.

They know how to cut this abusive behaviour off. They are fully capable. They don’t want to use those tools, legal or technical, because it goes against the spirit of FOSS, even if it’s to stop someone else who is abusing the spirit of FOSS.

Being good people, they are using “name and shame” first, and are even so kind as to leave the “name” part out for now. I expect that they may make some changes down the line if the org, and maybe others playing this same game, dont play nicer.