EU governments migrating off Amazon/Microsoft/Google and onto EU providers would go a long way towards supporting them…

Seconded. I really dislike Gnome and use KDE or Cinnamon for myself and family, but for a user who has been on Macs and using it on a tablet…

Use Gnome.

TL;DR meme is wrong. It’s not the communication of information but the invention of specific technologies that allowed it

Space tech was well and truly developed decades before the internet was anything more than a curiousity.

Rockets are the primary underpinning tech of space exploration - invented centuries earlier but refined enough in the 1930s and 1940s for the Germans to put them into space en route to blowing shit up.

If you’d said “computers” it might be a better argument: while the first peacetime spaceflights were calculated by humans with pen paper & slide rule / log tables, primitive computers were soon brought in and helped in accelerating progress.

Same with exploration, it wasnt printing press in 1500s that expanded exploration (books had been around for several millenia before 1500AD), but the invention and widespread use of the sextant and accurate clocks allowed more precise navigation

Yeah. Don’t do that.

It sounds great in theory but you’ll run into issues. I put a lot of people on mint but use arch+kde for myself.

I’ve done KDE on Mint in VMs 3 times now and every time something goes wrong.

I’m no fan of ubuntu but just run up kubuntu or fedora kde. KDE neon might be a bit cutting edge. Endeavour is arch on easy mode and comes in KDE. First two for beginners, second two for those with some tech experience.

Mint out of the box rocks for new linux users, never a problem. Once you start putting it in unsupported configs you’re ditching the primary reason to recommend it (stability in the reliability sense)

Yep VZV or HSV is most likely culprit (although there’s a few others)

Edit Not likely toxoplasmosis because it’s not usually necrotising, it’s retinitising and lesions, but also not an opthamologist so what do I know either lol :-)

You can strike off toxoplasmosis as well.

Most likely a virus although fungal infections could also do it

https://eyewiki.org/Acute_Retinal_Necrosis

Interesting, I thought they were illegal in the US - TIL.

Most everything is designed to be pull-through for obvious reasons, but yes, I’ve seen them being backed up.

I don’t know of any country outside of Oz that uses B Triples (3 trailers), but Canada also uses B doubles (two trailers).

Single axle shouldn’t be an issue in most single trailer setups provided you’re staying within weight limits in most circumstances, and you still have the full power of the ICE and its driven wheels if you have to start on a steep incline. Would have assumed the electrical motor(s) would be between the wheels and driving a short shaft to each driven wheel though (it’s not specified in the article either way). Putting the engine anywhere else means you need a differential and it’s going to need to be in the middle of where the battery pack is (generating heat).

Centralised motors as close to the wheels as practical is standard design for most EVs - shorter axless= reduces risk of breakage. 2 motors, one per wheel also reduces complexity and likelihood of failure (and increases HP available at the wheel) it’s how I would design it (and most high HP EVs are designed)

Backing something up that long has to be a royal pain in the arse

Let me introduce you to Australian road-trains

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/programs/landline/2025-03-23/kings-of-the-road:-australias-mighty-road-trains/105086406

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train

Tongue in cheek responses aside, by eyeball it’s only a couple of metres longer, that’s really not that big a deal for a decent driver, as long as the second 5th wheel is locked not rotating

Thanks for the update and thanks for all your support work

<shrug> I’ve put later kernels on Mint a half dozen times withno dramas, but whether you should depends on what your use case, preferences and skill are.

I personally wouldn’t do the arse-ache that is an immutable system, but plenty here love their Bazzite it seems. Different strokes for different folks. Nothing wrong with that.

If you love Mint except for the kernel version then it’s an easy fix. If you don’t have deep feelings then either try & be ready to ditch, or pick an alternative.

Just for the record there is no “doing all that” about it. It’s a simple couple of clicks. It couldnt be easier. I’m not sure where you got the idea it was difficult.

Lol at the downvotes, it’s like 3 clicks. Not rocket science.

https://www.fosslinux.com/138008/how-to-install-and-try-different-linux-kernels-in-linux-mint.htm

Mint deliberately uses an LTS kernel because it’s primary value proposition is stability & simplicity but changing kernels is pretty safe.

So install the latest kernel into Mint ?

Damn. TIL. knew about the first of course but who am i as three seperate pieces is new to me

1. Ford’s govt passes law to remove cycle lanes

2. Cyclists groups get judgement (injunction) saying You can’t remove them until court case challenging the legality of removing them completes

3. Ontario govt appeals against injunction and has lost.

Ergo Cycleways stay until courtcase is done

“The injunction was granted by Justice Paul Schabas on April 22 and is expected to stay in place until he has delivered a full decision on a Charter challenge brought forward by cycling advocates, who argued that the Ford government’s attempt to take out bike lanes in downtown Toronto infringed on their Charter rights to life and security of person.”

Yes that’s certainly true, but Fort Knox being an international gold warehouse doesn’t actually impact dollarisation of the world economy and the inevitable transition away from it when/if US power abates

The dollarisation of the world economy has a lot more to do with the US being virtually untouched (negatively) by WW2 as opposed to the other major world economies who were all decimated (axis & allies). The US had the smallest downturn post 1945 and the fastest transition.

This allowed it to hoover up a large percentage of the worlds wealth AND through its military strength persuade, direct and control other former powers (refer Suez crisis for example).

Bretton Woods really isnt that important in that arc. It certainly helped solidify American hegemony over the 20thC but it was an outcome of power differentials rather than a creator of the hegemony.

It will breakdown over the next decades as the rising superpower China is not party to it, and Putin via the Fanta Felon has massively undermined the US soft power base

TL;DR Bretton Woods mostly codified unwritten agreements between the western countries while cementing the already present dominance of the US due to WW2.

Russian propagandists claimed that the strike targeted civilians.

Well then, don’t put civilians in Army trucks then.

Unless someone bribes the Fanta Felon no amount of logic is going to change this - it’s ideological - these guys WANT climate change (accelerationists) or view it as made up. “Owning the libs” outweighs any logical argument, the only thing that trumps the ideology is greed. If someone offers him enough money they’ll pull it.