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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.

Sure. It's an unpaid lunch though.

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

With David Brin's Uplift books, I'd just start with Startide Rising. It's not so much a sequel to Sundiver, but another standalone book set in the same universe. There's a couple of very minor references to Sundiver, but you're not really missing anything if you haven't read it going into Startide Rising.

While Startide Rising is fantastic and is probably one of my favorite sci-fi books, I found Sundiver just wasn't that good. It's not really bad per se, but it was David Brin's first novel and that really shows and has some issues with pacing, an unreliable narrator, and things like that (IMHO). It's also more of a mystery/detective novel set in space whereas Startide Rising is space opera, so the whole feel of the two books is very different and can just boil down to what sort of books you like.

I actually had read Startide Rising twice without even knowing Sundiver existed before looking it up online and realizing it was the second book in a series. I'll probably pick up Startide Rising for another re-read sometime in the future, but for Sundiver once is probably enough.

The third book The Uplift War, is also quite good, and similar to the other two it's more of another standalone book that's set in the same universe, with some minor references to the previous two. I wasn't as much of a fan of the last three books - they are a trilogy more than a standalone books, and you'd probably want to have read the previous three books before tackling them (or at the very least, Startide Rising) because things aren't going to make a lot of sense if you just jump right in. I found them a long read and they got really weird at the end. Like Sundiver I'd say once is enough for books 4-6 too.

That's my experience with Asus going back over 25 years now. To me, Asus has always been substandard products sold at premium prices. If I wanted a substandard motherboard, I'd buy ECS and save a bunch of money. And to be fair to ECS, I've had some of their boards that have worked just fine, which is more than I can say about the Asus stuff.

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.

It would be theoretically possible in a universe based upon non-Euclidean geometry.

But then who is manning the guns?

It certainly could. That's the gamble you're taking.

I usually replace drives after 5 years if they are doing anything I consider important. So those drives to me would have 1-2 years left in them. Of course, I have seen a good number of drives I have repurposed to things less important still manage to rack up impressive numbers of hours.

I have an old film scanner (was pricy back in its day) that doesn't have drivers for 64 bit Windows, and anything newer than Vista. So I have an old XP box that can talk to it.

That's all I use that computer for, so it's otherwise fine with its circa 2009 configuration. Haven't had to do any fixes or workarounds.

I'd say not really, Tolkien was a writer, not an artist.

What you are doing is violating the trademark Middle-Earth Enterprises has on the Gandalf character.

How do they compare to TVs? At least the last time I looked into it, pretty much every TV was terrible compared to even a halfway decent computer monitor.