Coming up to long/medium flights I've often thought, cool - a period of distraction free time, I can read, watch films, write, play video games.
In reality, it always sucks for those things. Crap in seat displays, crook neck on a tablet/book, no comfortable typing position, etc.
I mean it it works, but I wouldn't say its ideal - particularly in cattle class.
So weather this is the solution or not, I don't know, but think theres definitely _something_ in a compact, portable 'Head Up - Hands Down' device form factor.
I find a tablet works pretty well for reading or watching movies. (And, really, planes are the main place I use mine.) I never try to take my laptop out though; it's too awkward to type.
In reality though, you wouldn’t ‘launder’ money that wasn’t ‘dirty’.
As an activity it’s basically always indicative of a crime. (Wether you agree with the law or not)
And by its very purpose, it makes the ‘base’ crime harder to prosecute and trace.
I think you’ve flipped the causality.
So I don’t think it’s so much that prosecutors just think it’s easier way forward, and if they put their mind to it they could prosecute the base crime, but don’t want to. As much as the laundering activity itself has made it too hard to prosecute.
I could imagine businesses in stealth phases trying to intentionally obfuscate their externally visible finances to keep a low profile. "Hey, $big_client, can you pay us through a chain of sham companies so it looks like you're buying office chairs from Crazy Teddy's Furniture and Waffles, so we can make a big splash when we announce our partnership at the launch event?" seems like something not that far out of line.
Legitimate firms might want to blur their supply chains and vendor relationships. If a manufacturer of some small component discovers the end buyer is Apple, for example, it might increase the temptation for "ghost shifts" and supplying extra components into the knockoff-product and aftermarket repair ecosystems.
If you have an AMD graphics card it’s fairly trivial to switch Pop_OS over.
I found it to be very obviously a clear improvement in app start time and general snappiness in the OS. To extent that meaningfully improved the experience.
Apparently there are gaming benefits too, steamdeck has adopted it for this reason.
Yes I have, with Ubuntu 22.04 and kubuntu 22.04. As a result, I've switched to Mac OS ;) Though not because of Wayland specifically but eg. libinput causing physical pain as opposed to the nonlinear/kinetic scroll synaptics had was definitely a contributing factor, along with other regressions making me want to throw my notebook out of the window.
I’m not a photographer, nor a creative expert, but my understanding is that colour work is one place that that MacOS actually excels, fundamentally, at at the operating system level.
It’s able to handle colour profiles correctly on a per app basis, rather than per display.
I only know a bit about color profiling, but I don't understand why you'd want a color profile on a per app basis? I see it for device-level... like a printer would have a profile, a camera would have a differently calibrated one, and multiple monitors with different color profiles to make sure they're uniform.
I mean if they have that feature and it's used for something big I'm not privy to, cool, but otherwise it's something that most large OS's handle.
Again only going on off hand knowledge. But colour is one of those things that seems straightforward to begin with, and soon becomes insanely complex as you start peeling the layers back XD.
Different files, applications, media can be encoded in different colour spaces, as can different displays, printers, dyeing processes take them as inputs - and the conversion isn't always straight forward.
For most consumption activities this doesn't matter, but if you work in colour and your job is to make sure that that signiture 'Pepsi Blue' is consistent in print media, television advert, merchandise, and the product, some finer treatment of them in the OS becomes necessary.
To iterate - not a colour expert, but I just thought I'd politely enlighten you as why macOS is so highly regarded for this kind of work, it isn't just marketing. Though no doubt, there is plenty of that too.
I think this is sometimes missed when considering why Flash was so popular.
The rich all in one tooling is one part, but the packaging, and sandboxed nature of them is what spawned the ecosystem.
An author could just focus on their experience, without getting bogged down in any Web complications (or indeed requiring any web specific knowledge at all), compile out an .swf, and share a simple file. Those hosting could then easily embed them knowing they were completely confined to their little box, and couldn't escape.
You can treat Web browsers themselves the same way—the "Web" part is optional. They run single-file programs quite capably.
(What's nuts is that all the Web developers don't get this. They end up writing all their tooling against NodeJS, instead of the JS runtime everyone already has and that, for that reason, is the entire basis for how their field is actually able to produce things that users can actually use.)
I actually think there’s a fairly large gap for new and innovative geospatial tools/solutions in the open-source space.
It’s true that alot of databases that have “Support for Geospatial” - but that can mean a a lot of things, often with little overlap in functionality, or very specific, inflexible access patterns that breakdown with even small variations in the problem.
I don’t think it’s too uncommon to find that none of the available solutions work for particular real world problems, and often it comes down to handcrafted solutions like this.
Crypto might well be the biggest vehicle for financial fraud the world has ever seen.
Whatever you think of Crypto more broadly, millions of innocent people are being prayed on, who have lost collectively, literally billions of dollars, some more vulnerable to the impact of that than others.
To a lot of (good) people, it’s unacceptable to allow that to go unchallenged.
So yeah I think I can see how it’s a bit different.
I think that’s an unusual way frame that requirement.
All programs need to handle memory _correctly_. Very few seg fault as part of expected operation.