I have heard many times the claim that they couldn't break even based on ticket price alone.
It is also possible that this was true once, but not anymore, especially given how consolidated, anticompetitive, and therefore overpriced, that industry has become.
I have lots of complaints about DOP/PDO, but on the other hand it has its features.
While it's true that, to paraphrase Vesper Lynd, there is parmigiano, and there is parmigiano, and I prefer the latter kind... The worst parmigiano I can buy in EU is still damn good cheese.
They do in Europe. And the flight is somehow still cheaper.
But in the US the doors fall off the plane, the ticket is overpriced, but they somehow still lose money which they have to recoup by selling airmiles to credit cards and your data to ICE.
There is a lot I really don't get about the US flight industry. Only explanation that makes sense is lack of competition due excessive consolidation with antitrust asleep at the wheel.
I see here no-one has a clue and expects Italian farmers to behave like american businesses, so I'll have to explain. The ideology of Italian farmers (and pretty much all euro farmers) is pretty ugly, but also different from your typical murican grift.
In the specific case, Parmigiano-Reggiano producers are obsessed with the idea that they are losing billions to "Italian sounding" products like american Parmesan. Which they believe are sold interchangeably.
The thing that guarantees the absence of fraudolent data is that only "legal" Parmigiano producers from the Modena-Reggio-Parma area would be allowed to enter data in the system, and your american counterfeit Parmesan would be barred. Of course such a system is blind to the fact that they themselves are likely lying about the origin of their milk, but that's a feature, not a bug.
Unfortunately this is not even peak farmer craziness around here, but that's a different story (the farmer parties e.g. the dutch one are really ugly).
And this is all beside the obvious fact that Parmigiano-Reggiano is indeed the finest cheese in the world, so far ahead of the Parmesan competition that no person could mistake one for the other in a blind test. And the French and Dutch can bite me.
Of course I love other people telling me what I am or am not supposed to want out of my tech. That's why I exclusively use Apple products. Oh wait, I actually don't.
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And BTW, this is in fact a shitty joke, because even iPhones and Pixels and Teslas actually let you set a charging limit.
The rational part was that I have to mantain his installation anyway. I have a lot of experience with KDE, and having seen trouble with GNOME from the get go, I ran back to the safe choice.
I don't know... Friday I installed Linux on my dad's "new" Thinkpad T495.
I tried to go with Gnome. It's supposed to be the user friendly one, right?
First thing I want to do is change the charging limit of the battery to 80%. It's not impossible to replace the battery, but it would be nice to not blow it too fast.
After 20m of trying and failing I switched to KDE, where the whole thing was 3 clicks.
And even if I didn't know how to do it, the systemsettings window has a search function that will get you the right option in a split second.
I found switftkey rather buggy, and stopped using it as soon as GBoard added decent multilingual support, so I really can't remember the key placement. All are pretty heavily customizable, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't get them to a state where you're comfortable.
If you have philosophical objections to the FUTO license, then your options are Heliboard and Florisboars. Heliboard is currently better, but Florisboard has promise.
Put in a SSD and you'll be surprised how far it can get you.
My father is still using a 13 year old 14" Dell I gave up 6 years ago. He's even using it with windows 10, and having a SSD it works almost bearably well. They keyboard broke, and with the laptop not being Win11 compatible, he asked for an upgrade.
I got him a 6 year old Thinkpad, but I'll install Mint and give him a VM for the few SWs he needs Windows for.
Not really. I lived in the Netherlands for a decade. I can promise you the Dutch don't mind.
Actually, I think the expression "doing Dutch" fits them pretty well to this day.