i have no issue with the gender swap. Most of the main characters in vintage sci-fi are male, and most books are male-centric. as a growing boy, I devoured these insatiably. Most of these were written by men, with male leading cast doing typically "manly" stuff. Salvor Hardin is prominent, but swapping that to female should not be an issue. I don't remember any overtly masculine acts from the books or radio series. and...... crap, now i need to get apple tv.....

Just complaining about a problem is just a way to try to get others to solve it for you. The welfare/entitlement mentality is the cause of this. people would be better served with additional links or direction on how to get a bike in this "shortage" of new bikes. get an old bike, do the required maintenance and repairs, have a sweet old ride and enjoy. My 1968 Schwinn is still kicking. I bought it about 10 years ago, new tires, brakes etc. updated the bars to a more modern version and it's a pleasure to ride. I couldn't/can't afford a new bike at $500+ for a decent ride. I can afford effort and judicious repairs/upgrade over a period of time (about $230, including bike purchase, over 1 year). There are ways to get what you need through some basic effort and, dare I say it,.... work. I know that not everyone has the required skill to fully repair a bike (or use tools properly). YouTube is a great way to learn. I watched a YouTube video on replacing a bottom-bracket and did it and the bike works fine. Bike frames usually last a great deal of time unless they are truly neglected/abused. Just be wary vintage British bike unless you know what you are doing. These might have Whitworth fasteners and are beyond most tool sets. Good luck. Enjoy.

As a network engineer, I can see being involved in arguments between the server platform support teams (read: off-shore) and the network engineering teams (read: on-shore). It'll be like this; "we need network support on a call" "Hello. what's wrong?" "The entire network is down for everyone!!!!! You need to fix this!!!!! The support we get from you is horrible!!!! AAHHHHhhhhhhh!!!!!!" "OK. What changed? What was being done at the time the entire network disappeared for everyone?" "we (15 people on the call - it apparently takes that many) were doing nothing (to do nothing)." "OK, well, I'm on the cores and I can see a lot of traffic, other servers, the outside world etc. you need to define the "everything being down" part." "well, we were in the middle of doing a firmware update on server xxx01 and...." "OK, so, you lied to me about doing nothing. what did you update?" "the NIC card to improve performance for..." "And now you're wondering why the network is down..." It'll go this way for some time until the next couple of layers of management get involved....... lots of yelling, me sending pictures of the network working I should write a script for this call. I know it'll be coming.