I was always a bit impressed by those shuttles. They are warp capable and apparently capable of maintaining warp speed for at least several weeks making them more of a starship themselves than just a shuttle. Not bad for something the size of a large van.

Naw, the best software they've ever produced is 6502 BASIC.

Though Flight Simulator does get an honorable mention.

Maybe the bumpers on some of the Ram trucks?

Any of the decorative chrome bits have been cheap plasti-chrome for something like 30 years now.

Junk also tend to accumulate in rivers and lakes. Once it's in there it's out of sight, out of mind - and even if you know it's there it is often difficult to remove.

When it finally gets cleaned up by bringing in the magnet or a barge to dredge it up or whatever, you're seeing years if not decades of stuff that's getting pulled out all at once.

And here I thought it was referring to "Robot Rock". Though I suppose that's only two words.

The old Podcast app was simple, it did one thing, and it did it well. YouTube Music seems to be trying to do a dozen different things, and it does a shit job of all of them.

But then who is manning the guns?

It's not the nitrogen that kills you, it's the lack of oxygen.

This method of suffocating someone would work just as well with a gas like helium or argon. It's just that nitrogen is cheap and plentiful for reasons even someone as dimwitted as you can probably figure out.

Next year should be 100% Linux for me. Steam is dropping support for Windows 7 at the end of this year, and I don't have any other newer Windows PC to run Steam on.

It's another one of those weird non-metric units. In the world of air conditioning (or cooling in general), a "ton" is the amount of cooling you'd get from melting a ton (a short ton - that is 2000 pounds) of ice that's already near its melting point. Air conditioners are usually rated in tons per day, with 1-5 tons about right for a typical apartment or house, depending on things like square footage and climate.

It'll probably end up worse than that. Turn off secure boot and Windows may still run, but it will no longer verify and all these sites will now refuse to work on your computer. So if you like to run Linux, even dual booting or running Windows in a VM for those things that absolutely require Windows won't be good enough anymore.

The issue seems to be that the build-it-yourself market caters almost exclusively now to the gaming crowd. If you want a gaming PC then you can still get a good deal building it yourself, but if you just want an inexpensive computer it's going to be tough to beat a prebuilt.

The last time I built a PC for myself was 2012 and I've been looking at replacing it. I have to say the state of the DIY market today compared to 10 years ago was a bit surprising.