Using an LLM for finance is insane, not only for the usual reasons AI is disliked here on Lemmy, but because the proper way to do this (putting aside whether you should) would be to tune a machine learning model, probably a supervised regression model, to do these predictions.
I've worked in business IT before, so I have a (very small) bit of background I can probably share from your bosses side.
If you're not recommending a distro that has a support contract (e.g. Red Hat), what you're creating is a bus situation - if you get hit by a bus, who is going to maintain the Linux terminals when they go down? Would that contract cover supporting LibreOffice? How will normal staff be able to figure out how to use Linux, and will there be a measurable increase in productivity from them, or will they be slow to adjust?
Regarding OneDrive (or more realistically, SharePoint and Microsoft 365), Microsoft has a service level agreement for this. I can't read it on my phone because it's in docx format, but I dare say that it does have some coverage for if data is leaked, otherwise most enterprises wouldn't even touch it.
Your boss likely doesn't have concern in that aspect because of the SLA assurance, and thus it makes more financial sense to move completely over to M365 and away from on premise servers that require constant maintenance, upkeep and power costs.
I'm not sure of the business size you're in, but I'd hazard a guess that its a small business if your boss is in a position to potentially change out the existing IT infrastructure. You're facing an uphill battle in convincing your boss to move to Linux because the desktop support for it is limited and likely expensive, and the alternative is to keep you and probably hire other Linux technicians to maintain those Linux systems when they go down.
...and they want to compete with the Steam Deck?
I get this a little bit too, like "oh god, did I just kick a hornet's nest?" but at the end of the day it's just people on a forum giving their takes while having a dump, if I say the wrong shit I'll stand corrected and otherwise if it's trolls, fuck em.
Didn't occur to me that it might be holding the monitor stand together. It definitely isn't first party, but it seems very well made so I'm guessing a quality third party thing. The steel is a good 4-5mm thick.
I'd be curious to take it off except now you've mentioned it might be holding it together I'm a little uncertain on that haha
Otherwise it seems like my question is mostly answered based on the lack of responses - it's not a common aftermarket thing and definitely wasn't an official Apple accessory.
Oh yep, in Australia we colloquially call it "the pits" as in "Gotta take the car to the pits" but I'd say the more universal term would be checking the vehicle's roadworthiness, or taking it for a roadworthy.
I recently bought this A1267 display from the recycled goods store, and I have absolutely no idea what this thing is on the stand.
My best guess is a mount, but it doesn't look like it would fit on my VESA mount. I tried to search up A1267 mount images but found nothing that matches this.
Yes, while I have the MBA running macOS, I have my trusty X260 with Linux for everything I don't need macOS for. I absolutely love both the size and thickness of it - the keyboard is good, the nub is good, it's a comfortable, rugged laptop with a dual battery setup.
Ph1lza, the guy that lost his Minecraft hardcore world of 8(?) years.
I wish decently powerful small laptops would make a return. I dearly love my 11" MacBook Air and I'm still astounded I can even somewhat use it today for various research and office work, but it could seriously do with an M1 chip and 16GB of memory.
Hey, I'll take a 4 deep screenshot inception over some link straight to x[.]com
I would only hazard against Debian for gaming because of it's slower update cycle (yes yes you could use unstable or sid..), so performance improvements or fixes will take longer to get to you.
Otherwise I completely second your comment; OOP, just pick anything mainstream like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Bazzite, Pop!_OS, you'll be fine on any of those. Once you're comfortable with whatever you chose, then you'll be more informed on picking a distro more suitable for your liking.