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At its peak during the pandemic, California had almost 600,000 acres of vineyards, but farmers have removed or stopped actively growing wine grapes on roughly 25% of that land, said Jeff Bitter, president of Allied Grape Growers, which represents about 500 farmers statewide.

and

In the U.S., sales of wine cases declined 23% from 427 million in 2020 to 329 million in 2025, while total wine spending fell 22% from $94 billion to $74 billion, according to First Citizens Bank, formerly Silicon Valley Bank, which produces an annual State of the Wine Industry Report.

So in reality, the sales decline is entirely due to reduced production, not reduced consumption.

Europe, South America and the US over planted 10-15 years ago, driving down prices. They were expecting a boom in Chinese sales but in fact the Chinese didn't really like the type of wine they produce.

It won't make any difference to the pump price, because its set by world parity pricing. And as the US has only a small net positive balance for oil imports and exports, it won't make any difference to the rest of the world either.

The current version of Ubuntu recommends 6GB of memory and a dual-core processor

4 GB.

Ubuntu doesn't have other lightweight options, but Linux Mint offers XFCE and MATE editions.

Wrong. XFCE and LxQt versions are offered - Lubuntu and Xubuntu.

Snap is a packaging system that includes every possible file or runtime that the app needs to work.

Yes, so it actually works at proper containerisation. That is actually the whole point of containerisation.

Flatpaks frequently fail to work because of library incompatibilities.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

on an Xbox ?

The update may have made changes to the underlying kernal, to fix unimportant bugs identified by AI - that would brick the whole thing.

Vibe coding for the win !

I use Gentoo, almost everything is compiled just for me.

No issues there.

The greatest lie in the universe.

But e-scooters which are a total death trap are fine ?

They have stopped making optical drives because they are obsolete. You could see it coming a few months ago when the disc version was being dumped off at only $50 more.

News Corp.

There's no evidence that it's imported as far as I can see.

Trackie dacks and UGGs, just brings everyone to the same level.