Cash. Currency exchange. Used to be a tourist trap, intransparent and bad rates, commission on top; take only mint banknotes. Now often we see: No commission, rates with low spread (same as the best bank rates available to consumers). Takes bank notes and coins at no surcharge, no discussion.

This is for countries where cash is still king and practically required. It’s competition at work; there are multiple local shops and they advertise their rates publicly. With internet in everyone’s pocket, there’s little room for cheating. Just enough spread for this to be a profitable business without robbing the customer.

Compare to ATM operators, which are usually a oligopoly charging growing fees to foreigners. Because they can.

Makes sense. Thanks for the details.

Yes, I understand this point. LMDE is the backup plan, but is it actually inferior to regular Mint based on Ubuntu? If not LMDE could be default Mint.

If your current distro works, there’s no reason to switch. Switching means a fresh install, repeat whatever customization you want or need, restore your backup. It’s not difficult, but can be time-consuming until you have everything configured they way you want it.

I wonder why they make both Ubuntu and separate Debian based Mint. That duplicates the work.

I would probably jump from ubuntu to mint if they drop ubunutu in favor of debian. But then, debian itself is a perfectly fine distro and i could also use it directly.

Too much choice.

“Bedingt abwehrfähig” is the bureacratic term the government uses to explain that the German military, in particular the equipment, is broken beyond any hope of repair.

Acutal: Briton, who was shot by their father in Texas, was unlawfully killed.

My mind: After some irrelevant context, Trump was unlawfully killed.

If they are buying a new laptop and macbooks cost about the same what they’d pay for a PC laptop, the mac is a solid choice.

I want to say Linux. I use Linux (and macs occasionally). Linux is great. But macs are also great and work very well out of the box. So does Linux, if the hardware is fully supported and if you don’t need any non-linux desktop software. Those are some ifs.

Debian is fine distro and many people rely on it as strong foundation including the people that build ubuntu and mint. Maybe Debian is the hidden champion.

When Ubuntu became popular, it had some advantages like reliable release cycles, slightly newer packages, better integration of proprietary drivers. Stuff that was not wanted in Debian stable main at the time.

Other non-debian-based distros also brought some advantages.

Personally, I’d love to see Debian as the base distro with Mint, Ubuntu and others building ontop of it. I like my apt update. I just won’t send novices straight to Debian when the derivates have more desktop users.

How to install Linux software using GUI?

On your GUI Desktop Environment, you use your GUI Application Launcher to start the GUI Terminal emulator. Then you simply type “apt install foo”. Easy.

See, the GUI is not harder then the normal way.

It’s also frustrating that society allows infinite resources for AI illustrations with six fingers, but restricts scientific research.

Well, if you prentend iterm does not exist, you can probably still use a mac to browse the web.

Exactly. Some things just work in every civilised country.

Seems wild. Are employees not a relevant cost factor?

She lives in Austria. So, she is an Austrian Swiss Brown cow.

Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo are European contries

I’m sorry, I did not intend to insult the cow.

Most cows do not reach her age and they are rarely given the opportunity to interact with a variety of potentially useful objects.

That’s her performance with a simple stick. Someone give that cow a typewriter. Soon we’ll have the complete works of Shakespeare or a presidential speech.

Before 1956?

https://www.oldest.org/technology/oldest-digital-clock/