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Lithium batteries start off at about 4.2v and drop to 3.0v when empty with 3.6-3.7v for most of the time in the middle. AA batteries start at 1.6v and drop to about 1.0v, so three of them is vaguely equivalent to a lithium.

White LEDs need about 2.9-3.0 volts, and there'll be a resistor (or sometimes a proper driver circuit) between the batteries and the LED to cover the difference in voltage. Some torches don't have an actual resistor and rely on the resistance of the connections and the voltage of the battery sagging under load.

I suspect your small torch has a resistor and if you ran in on a lithium it would work but be rather dim. If you can take it apart and change the resistor to a lower value it should work fine. I suspect they decided to use four button cells rather than three because the voltage sags a lot at high current.

ime 1st Direct are good

True. Just ignore their evil overlords.

You need to earn £500,000 per year for Coutts, and I’m a long way off that.

These washers are common with Avid/Sram calipers but I don't think Shimano calipers include them in the box.

Is your brake pad running on the braking surface correctly, or does the pad overhang the highest points of your wavey rotor? If the pads develop a lip you'll get crap braking as the lips will contact before the worn face of each pad hits the rotor. The force against the pistons is now off-centre too, so you might get weird wear and leaks inside the caliper too.

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I was going to say this, actual fix is to face the brake mounts.

Hosting renewal. I've been with one.com for several years but next year's invoice has just come in at £57

If that's p.a. for hosting and at least one domain registration, I have nothing to add. I've been happy on 1&1/Ionos for donkeys' years, but I'm paying more than that.

Just ignore their evil overlords.

Don't be so judgemental. Launders need banking services too.

Thanks for the comprehensive response. It's a pretty cheap light I think. As I said I need to change the batteries in the top anyway. The main light takes 3x regular AAA in a cradle, which is what made me think of it first. But at least AAA is common and rechargeable rather than the buttons.

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I use the Zen shared hosting package. Formerly Bronze, now Silver. No complaints so far, and their technical support team are quick to respond and helpful, which is nice.

I've got a torch that takes that battery set (4 x LR44). Happily there is a battery called a "4LR44" that is just 4 LR44s stacked in a single shell. Lithium versions are available, which might make it last longer and I think they're still cheaper and less faffy than buying 4 separate LR44 coin cells.

Cheers!

That's perfect.

Thanks for this. i know nothing on disc brake, thats why i left it to a profesional to fix it.. i'll have a look at it an check it there something wrong. for now the braking power and modulation are good but i'd like theme to be set in the right way.

i want to try and bombard a mobile phone with loads of useless calls and random text messages

whats the best way of doing this, should i sign the number up to loads of crap websites
any recommendations for websites that are guaranteed to spam a mobile number ?

@Brommers @aggi, thanks will take a look

What's the go to website building platform? Wix? Or is something else considered a bit better?

What's the go to website building platform?

notepad.exe 🙂

Nothing can assuage my visceral hatred of WYSIWYG page generators and the truly appalling web pages they generate.

Squarespace?
I’ve never used it mind.

There's a happy medium. At least go for Sublime or VS Code.
Can't take anyone that uses Notepad seriously, as they're not enough of a masochist to use Vi

But more seriously, what do you need one for @King_Saxlingham?

There's a happy medium. At least go for Sublime or VS Code

Yeah, serious answer is serious. I don't code these days so I haven't used Visual Studio Code, but I've seen it recommended by people whose judgement I trust.

to be fair, seems Notepad is good enough for Warren Buffet
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Mostly for real estate photography (for selling houses as opposed photos for leisure).

I've got Dreamweaver as part of my Adobe package. Is that worth a punt instead?

List something for cheap on gumtree and put that phone number as the contact

How would a Scotsman stereotypically say Fucking? Fecking? Fooking?

I thought Dreamweaver was long since dead. It may have improved (though a few snarky Reddit comments suggest not) but it was one of the WYSIWYG type editors that @gbj_tester was talking about. It's a quick way to put together a page but hard to maintain because styling leaks into content leaks into page layout.

Modern web development is very modular in its design.

Trivial example - when text is large and blue it's not because you've tagged that particular bit large and blue, it's because you've tagged it with a particular style and then the style sheet elsewhere defines large and blue, and then when you change the style sheet everything that points to it changes in tandem. The drag and drop / WYSIWYG nature of Dreamweaver makes it easy to get out of that habit and a website that looks alright with a couple of pages on day 0 looks a bit shit as it grows and you tweak it.

If someone was a web designer and asked which DSLR and lenses they should get for a few placeholder images you'd tell them to get a camera phone and focus on the website design because the camera phone will do 90% of what they need in 10% of the time.
So that argument - unless you want to learn web design then a Wordpress/Squarespace would let you focus on selling houses.

I've got GeneratePress (https://generatepress.com/) as a plugin for my Tri club's Wordpress website
Something like this could be very easily adapted for real estate
https://gpsites.co/pixel/

Dreamweaver (...) it was one of the WYSIWYG type editors that @gbj_tester was talking about.

Dreamweaver was built to annoy the fuck out of everybody who was unfortunate enough to deal with it's code later. Code from hell, page after page.