There is certainly a requirement that prevents payout on the contract for those supers if performance numbers aren’t met. Further, those performance numbers are from real apps, so the system WILL be useful. Not getting paid is not an option, so performance/usability will come.
Contents of the display are often added after the fact in marketing materials. The person adding the wallpaper probably just didn’t notice the photo was flipped.
I have been leery of VSCode for this reason. The bare product isn’t very special, so you have to download extensions to get the functionality you need. However, there is nothing keeping the extension from communicating. Suddenly, you get malicious extensions that leak data.
It’s not just malicious extension authors. Compromised developers of good extensions are just as much, if not bigger, of a risk.
I mostly use it for writing C, python, latex, and bash. I know I’m losing a bit of efficiency by not carrying a config, but I consider configless emacs a bit more capable for my workflows than configless vim.
The cynical part of me thinks that the bad web app is intentional. They can get much more data from you if you use the app, so they want that to be the best experience. All others should be bad enough that you will only use it if there is no other way to give them your money.
RPi2 is pokey enough that you really feel the limitations of the platform when you put Linux on it. Sure, you can run the kernel, but you are going to want to stop short of, say, any web browser that can function well on today’s web. Even a RPi4 isn’t a good daily driver for web browsing.
Part of the magic of these bare metal language environments is that you run against your own limits before you reach the limits of the hardware, especially in a hobby coding context. Linux makes it much easier to outstrip the CPU and RAM available in RPis.
My university’s self-service website would shut down from something like 10pm-4am every single day for batch jobs. This was used for EVERYTHING: Paying into your account, checking grades, registering for classes, webmail, etc. It seemed fairly antiquated at the time (2001 or so).