I have a separate, company-issued phone that is used exclusively for work related activities and that is not even connected to my home network.

I see Bosch also flaunts a “Made in EU” marker, so apparently there would be several options. Good to know, and I will check out whether that is true for Kenwood as well.

This looks really cool! Thanks for the share

Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s at least a good indication that they used to be well-made. I always find it difficult to tell if new products are still going to be able to last as long, and I guess it is not very easy to find that out either.

The meat grinder part is not a problem for me, so if that’s your only concern, then that sounds very good to me :)

I realize I wrote “European-made”, but is it realistic to find this type of equipment actually manufactured inside Europe?

Oh, I was not aware that Wilfa made stand mixers. I used to have a coffee grinder from them many years back, and it is still serving it purpose with the person I passed it on to. I will check out those, they look really nice as well.

When did you get your Optimum? I’m afraid the key word is “used to last”.

Ah, I thought they were US-based. Great tip, I will look into their models.

I was recently introduced to this and I am very glad I found it. I was once recommended it, but then I thought they meant to attach a physical screen to my headless server…

I use this for archiving news and magazine articles as well (with snapshots), sorted on topic so that I 1) might be able to remember where I read something and easily find an article again if I discuss it with someone and 2) have a good starting point for researching something I don’t have time for or the will for now.

I have set up the file sync on a self-hosted WebDAV server as well as it quickly racks up storage space with all those snapshots and you fairly quickly reach the top tier storage plan they offer.

Zotero 7 brought some good UI improvements, but it is really resource heavy (at least on Linux). A CLI-interface as was mentioned under here would be interesting.

You should be able to achieve that with scrcpy (at least with Android). Never got around to test it myself, so I can’t vouch for how well it works though. My usecase for it died with installing a mini-PC in my living room, and now it would only be a curiosity for me.

I still struggle to get Heroic to install pretty much anything, while Lutris usually works. I would want to use Heroic, but a prerequisite is that installed games actually launch and I have yet to understand why they don’t…

While most of my library is pirated, I make it a point to buy directly from the artists whenever possible - whether that’s digital downloads, vinyl, or merch, direct support goes much further than streaming services ever will.

You might already do this, but I’d suggest to further prioritize buying from up and coming and independent artists. You don’t need to support whatever random person/corporation owns the rights to the discography of a dead musician unless you have a compelling reason to so, and you don’t have to deepen the pockets of already loaded superartists/bands. Is there a Bandcamp Friday coming up, then you can wait until then to make sure a larger chunk of your money goes directly to those who made the music.

Oh boy, I can see I really need to get my dashboard game together.

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.