A product recall has a specific legal meaning in Australia (and the US).

A recall means the manufacturer and the distributer have a legal obligation to promptly make available a fix and to do so at no charge.

Tesla in the US has also addressed 99% of their recalls with over the air fixes. They’re still federally mandated recalls

Edit to add - and failure to promptly provide a fix in Australia means the customer is entitled to a full refund of orginal purchase price - even on many year old goods - which gives the manufacturer a strong incentive to not faff around

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

Well I’m glad the article was updated to add the “stay in your vehicle” advice, I was shocked the original grauniad article didn’t have it.

I’m sure everyone on here knows but I’m starting to think they should hand out pamphlets at the airport saying something like

“Driving in the bush without adequate preparation kills tourists. If you don’t know what adequate preparation is you’re going to FUCKING DIE, so find out before thinking it’s just like driving to Paris via the Ardennes”

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