The market for local beef is an oligopoly with only a few buyers, so it’s easy for them to manipulate the price

That’s an oligopsony, not an oligopoly which would have only a few sellers.

Tariffs on new Boeing airplanes would net the EU a total of nothing euros.

If you installed Steam from the software manager in Mint, you might have downloaded the Flatpak. Flatpaks are a particular way of distributing software which have their own pros and cons vs other ways of installing software, and you will eventually see many people hold strong feelings about this topic (whether or not to use them for instance).

But for now, in order to quickly check whether Steam is installed this way, you can install Flatseal through the software manager. Flatseal provides a GUI for efficient permissions management of Flatpaks. When you open it, it will display all software on your system that is installed in this manner. If Steam is listed there, then you have installed it has a Flatpak. You can then edit the permissions and try to set GPU Acceleration to allowed and see if that helps. If not, you have a different issue.

And for the record, using Flatseal is not a requirement for managing permissions of Flatpaks. You can do that through the command line as well. But it is indeed a quality of life improvement for me at least.

Are you running games via Flatpaks and have not given the Flatpak permission to use GPU acceleration? That has severly slowed down games on my similar AMD-based Minisforum PC. If you are, you can use Flatseal to easily adjust settings.

Isn’t it consistent though? It’s pronounced “juropean”, so it does not start woth a vowel-sound, which is the (consistent) rule as I’ve learned it. I believe this only has to do with the ease of which it is pronounced. Preceeding “an” to any vowel-sound makes the pronounciation flow better. Same with “a” before any consonant-sound.

I’d think enrollment rates would be a severe lagging indicator of education quality. Institutions could likely coast on reputation for quite some time after education quality tanks. Inertia is powerful, and some could even knowingly decide to go to poor educational institutions just for the status it still gives among peers and in their community.

That said, I have no first hand experience with US higher education, and wouldn’t know what the quality really is, just saying that enrollment rates probably aren’t a great indicator of it.

Oh, the name Longhorn unlocked some memories just now…

User replaceable batteries are a part of the new battery directive and will be in force from sometime in 2027 if I recall correctly.

Good to see - especially in government this is needed. In my team at work we are taking some mouse steps to reduce our Microsoft-dependence, but the enterprise at large is really deep into it all, and I learned today that there are some more systems being integrated soon, Purview and Defender being two of them. It will be really difficult getting out of this.

I have challenged my boss on what our strategy is to manage the business risk that a total lock-in of a single American company presents, given the geopolitical tensions, but I have yet to recieve a reply. My guess is that if we suffer along with everyone else that chooses similarly, no one’s head will roll because it is what everyone else is doing. Nevermind us going bankrupt, that’s a small price to pay to avoid getting any blame. Like back in the day when you wouldn’t get fired for choosing IBM.

Hosted on Jellyfin, Feishin on laptop and Finamp on mobile.

I am perfectly happy with Konsole, and sleep well despite perhaps missing out on features I don’t know about.

I bought a kettle with some WiFi features, but never planned to put it on my network as it works without it. Or was supposed to, at least. The thermostat was erratic and it needed a firmware update to fix it, only installable via this WiFi-connection. I set up a temporary VLAN just for the update, and disabled the VLAN right after. Then I took a shower.

I find it odd that one of its core features worked so poorly out of the box. And it’s not like it was a way to trick me into connecting it either, as I first got a replacement part because they didn’t know what the issue was.