What were they smoking when they hashed out this solution?

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.

It's possible that Tailscale (SaaS) or Headscale (completely oss and self-hosted) work for you. This is a vpn based on the wireguard protocol with additional magic. While TS will always attempt to create a wireguard tunnel over udp, it can fall back to HTTPS if otherwise the connection cannot be established. If your motivation is to work from a network where only TLS is permitted this could do.

Tailscale has an Android client. GUI.

Trump? This is an attack on American culture calories! You, the greatest war present, will certainly send troups to free the Oreo.

This is something that a web designer / developer does. It's not a Firefox feature or controlled through user settings. However, you are right, that one could probably make an extension that overrides the original setting and forces a different behaviour.

x = (X^2 + 5)/6

HP print cartridges.