Sure. I can see how the relative simplicity would be attractive to you given the use case, and so long as you know how to backup (and restore) whatever it uses for a database, I guess that’s fine. However, if you can’t do basic things like define new products without essentially hacking application assets, well, that’s… significantly less attractive, I would think.

But you’re the one who knows what will serve your needs best, obviously. Personally I wouldn’t want the potential liability of having to use the reporting features of a non-supported unlicensed piece of software when a tax auditor comes calling.

Unless it literally downloads them each time on application startup without caching the images locally, they’ve got to be in there somewhere. They almost certainly wouldn’t be embedded in the main executable as resources (which you already checked for anyway), so search for common image types: *.bmp (which it evidently already uses), *.png, *.jpg, *.gif and perhaps even *.tga or *.ani. There’s plenty of other possibilities, but those are all less likely.

With that said… I really wouldn’t recommend running a legitimate (let alone an illegitimate) business on pirated software. Have you at least considered looking at some of the freely available open source solutions?

https://github.com/opensourcepos/opensourcepos perhaps?

There’s a live demo at:

https://demo.opensourcepos.org/

User: admin Password: pointofsale

There’s a fair amount of options: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/blog/free-open-source-pos-software/

You know what? That’s a fair point. After all, if they’re happily running Linux they’re no one’s problem. If they’re unhappily running Windows, they’re Microsoft’s problem.

And I like Microsoft experiencing problems.

“‘Windows’? Sounds like a simplistic freeware CAD program from the nineties found on one of those CD-ROMs that used to come with magazines. Are you sure that’s an operating system?”

“I haven’t used Windows in over a decade, so I’m afraid I can’t help you” is one of my favorite sentences.

Given BASIC is what you enjoy, here’s something else that might tickle your fancy: A while ago, there was this movement to revive not just the programming experience of the early microcomputers, but also create a similarly limited but easy to understand execution environment (though suitably modernized to make things less complicated). It was called ‘fantasy consoles’. The idea is essentially to make some simple emulated hardware that never existed in real life and let people see what they could make with it. Quite a lot, as it turns out.

I suspect you’d get a lot of enjoyment out of playing with something like PICO-8.

There’s a fair amount of demoscene productions for it as well.

I have fond memories of transcribing reams of machine code encoded as BASIC data statements with a small prefixed loader out of the computer mags of the day. My mother would dictate and I would laboriously type, byte by byte. She… had the patience of a saint. I doubt she ever understood what we were doing or why.

I was probably not an entirely typical child.

Started out with PET BASIC on the Commodore 64 myself, back at the dawn of time. These days I’d probably just use Python if I wanted a easily comprehensible and managed language to do fun things in.

Glad to hear that’s working for you, and I can see why it would. Personally, I ‘code relax’ with small, low-investment creative coding project. Generative / algorithmic art, for example.

Nuts. Have you seen what laser color printers cost? We need that part of the budget for the IT department’s new 5080’s, which we need for, uh, AI modelling of our future infrastructural requirements. Yeah, that.

“Also, guess who controls access to the replacement printer ink cartridges.”

Components of GNU Health, perhaps?

There’s this, even

Given that TikTok has just been handed over to fucking Larry Ellison, that might be for the best. Delete your account.

No seriously. Do it now.

Must your climax be fueled by our frustrations? Vibrators are cheap, you know.

I’m… I’m not sure that’s the flex you think it is.

Or just use Debian, if you really enjoy the sluggishness and shitty dependency management of APT.

Alternatively you could switch to Arch and the glory that is pacman (or, even better, yay).

…But that’s none of my business.

Yes, but has it been saved for posterior, uh, I mean posterity?