Photo editing is my last holdout. And a European-compatible banking software.
Everything else works well on Linux. Gaming included. I've run Linux many years, in fact.
But Capture One and Lightroom are not available over there, which is what draws me back to MacOS. Of course I could just use darktable. Have done that for several years. But at the end of the day, I just prefer Capture One, and that's enough reason for me to switch my OS.
Some european banks are still struggling with the whole internet concept and have win32 apps using emulated dial up for both home and business customers.
The few I had a pleasure of using have a really good browser and mobile app support. The only problem I ran into is that sometimes mobile apps refuse to run on rooted Android devices.
Raiffeisen in Austria is/was? one of the stragglers, but I haven't dealt with them in 2 years or so - a company I worked for was stuck with it, but I noped out for Erste Sparkasse ASAP, and they let you do everything in browser. (Since 2011 at least.)
Raiffeisen in Russia let one do everything in a browser on Linux since 2008 for personal accounts. Possibly earlier, I did not have an account with them back then. For business accounts, it's since February 2016.
A good, HBCI capable software that can list transactions and make transfers from and to multiple banks. Think Quicken or MoneyMoney.
The browser will only ever log in to one bank per tab, and with different UI per bank. If you have more than one bank, it becomes a hassle quite quickly.
If someone pointed a weapon at me, I'd hand them my phone. There's nothing life-threateningly important on my phone. Whatever they do with it is better than death.
Unfortunately some people might try to do the math of losing their life savings vs. losing their life. Big downside of using a money system (eg: cryptocurrency) you can't reverse.
Maybe in this case, because these are phone pictures, which are quite heavily processed (sharpening, denoising, tone mapping, local white balance, local contrast). The raw image may contain a bit less of that stuff.
Author here: the neat thing about Live Share in VSCode/MSVC is that both people can type at the same time, both can use the shared command line and shared debugger, and both can navigate the shared project files. Independently, of course, with each on their own color scheme and keyboard setup.
I don't want to oversell it. It's not perfect, and has loads of bugs. But the fact that we can refractor the code base with two cursors simultaneously, is actually super powerful. Often one person is typing while the other is cleaning up a typo a few characters ago. It feels like symbiosis. It's really good.
Author here: That's an important aspect actually. These days I'm just not excited any more to tinker with my development environment. I've got better things to do...
I've taught programming at the university for a decade. There would always come the time when students would ask what text editor to use. This was an interesting and varied question for many years.
But nowadays, it's just VSCode. It may not be open source, and it may not be a particularly exciting (or good?) text editor. But it has become so ubiquitous that I'd just short-change my students if I recommended anything else.
They'd still occasionally see me type into my Emacs (which looks nothing like stock Emacs). And sometimes it would even get a kid or two interested. Some even switched to Emacs because of those classes. I have since given up teaching, though.
