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This paragraph says a lot. Highlite is mine but the text is all @ColdDog. We need to break the mold as a community. That is going to take some effort, and maybe some pain but it is exactly what is required to fix this industry. Fuggin well said man!

If you have bouncy parts, trust me you certainly don't want them covered by steel in space.

Well... @Montoya's ... bouncy parts, I suppose.

Thanks for this! I sense a "holy cow, this works" moment in your past. Why stop there? There's an entire solar system to dominate!

We didn't call them laptops, they were "portable computers" Except at ~20-25 pounds and up, they were more "luggable" than portable, and that was the name they inherited. Lord that brings back memories.

Flashback. ^KS ^KQ The first graphical game I played was Flight Simulator, using a 512Kb RAM and 2 floppy disks PC, with I think a Hercules monographics card. The monitor did shades of green. It was great.

Did you try licking it?

I was the manager of a large manufacturer's service department for a while. I've seen regular people use these methods to remove crayon from a monitor: Since crayon is just paraffin wax, you can use a petroleum based solvent such as naphthalene. If it doesn't work right away, light a match...

They all spy on you, that's how they do spam filters (...the excuse...). There is a way to minimize that, by running your own secure SMTP server, but that doesn't stop any relays from spying just the same. E-mail is not really secure.

I only have a problem with step 5. It keeps crashing. But I have a question, is it ok if I bite the crayon?

This is all very subjective opinion ... I do not have a good argument for the Blue over Black, though I tried for a long time. The Avenger Stalker to me seems to be a better designed ship for pursuit and capture. The Blue is more like a prisoner transport. The description of the Cutlass...

So you don't need to wear one really, but honestly I rather picture you in a bow tie. https://www.tiemart.com/yellow-and-black-striped-bow-tie.html

As a former (and possible future) sailboat and catamaran guy, and current Houston area resident... I watch these things develop by force of habit. This storm has a lot of hype as the first landfall of the year in a very sensitive area, and it is not without danger. Folks in the direct path...

It's a good question, but I don't think it's weird at all. It's not a question of balance issues to me, it's what have you done with the ship you just removed the parts from? Are you scrapping it? In real life, that's generally what doing that kind of thing means, and the process is...

The Canadian part of me is laughing his ass off, and inviting you to a polar bear swim in January. The Texan part of me is shivering his noogies off just thinking about it.

Welcome to TEST @Wallace. You too @Bambooza.

There were a lot of funny things happening back then. We had the IBM PC, and the Apple LISA ... the Mac didn't come out until Superbowl Sunday in '84. (Apple also apologized for the LISA) "They'd never be more than toys, mini-computers are where it's at." That's the thinking. Inside of 2...

Yep. And 8" single sided floppy disks before that. 120Kb ftw. I remember going to a hospital to help configure a system, and they had the boot disk stuck to the side of the computer with a magnet, for "safe keeping close to the computer"... Seriously.

I don't normally comment on or describe this kind of stuff, it becomes a kind of messy thing really quickly because of the amount of speculation and misdirection in marketing. And marketing is something these companies have in spades. I do think they will get to 3nm, but it will be marketing...

If you see a comment about burnt meat and @LoicFarris laying around somewhere... it might be the one I just lost when I was laughing...