Any question answered...

I'm sure it will be a little bit better, but for most circumstances a dinky little USB dongle is going to have more bandwidth over WiFi than the router has over the incoming wire, so it's moot. You don't hear a lot of complaints from people using the mini radios in their phones to connect to the domestic WiFi after all.

a WLAN adapter for a stationary device with an Ethernet port

My stationary devices with Ethernet ports are wired into the router, that for me is the no-brainer 🙂

The PC is upstairs in the 'office' and the router is downstairs.....ideally I would run an ethernet cable up.....which I may have to do.

On the subject of wireless... Is there an iPhone 6-7-?-friendly router for home broadband? Mine suffers from the issue where the phone doesn’t properly talk to the dual frequency wireless on OEM routers that come with BT, Plusnet, Vodafone etc home broadband. Setting it to single frequency doesn’t really help. Doesn’t have the problem on wireless anywhere else so I’m pointing finger at the router itself.

This may not help as it's similar to what you have already done, but I got a legacy phone to connect to my Vodafone OEM router by setting up the second WiFi network with parameters suitable for the phone, while leaving all the modern devices connected to the primary (dual frequency) network.

What’s your budget?

~£60 will get you a capable Mikrotik box like a hAP AC2, or ~£250 buys a Unifi Dream Machine which does basically the same job just with a much prettier user interface.

My daughter's rapidly growing out of her 20" Frog Bike. I'd like to build her something like this Early Rider: https://earlyrider.com/products/seeker-24 from parts I already have lying around.

Are 24" kid-friendly framesets a thing? If so, what should I be searching for on Ebay?

My Kask Mojito has been a dangling coat hook ornament for the last 6 months because I stupidly sheared off two of the self-tapping plastic torx screws that attach the cradle to the helmet’s shell. It’s never been dropped or crashed and the only Kask spares offered are replacement pads.
Presumably this helmet’s next destination is landfill?

What’s a good replacement (that doesn’t use such fragile fasteners, because I’m a klutz)?
TIA.

seems like discs is also an option.

pls do this

Planet X carries kid frames but mostly road oriented IIRC. I've never seen kids MTB / hybrid type frames as a thing anywhere.

Are you specifically after discs? If not I'd be tempted to buy a whole, second-hand, rigid 24" MTB/hybrid from a cheap brand that doesn't hold its value but is basically sound (Decathlon/Rockrider, Carrera) and upgrade it with whatever you've got in your parts box. The components are often crap, but the frames are fine.

I did that with a (front sus) 24" Rockrider MTB and it turned into a nice chuckable bike. You're unlikely to get it really light, but you can go a fair way to that if you upgrade the finishing kit and go 1x? rather than the usual 3x7 that they come with. Proper short 1x cranks are usually the pinch point in terms of whether this approach is decent value vs. just buying something new.

I don’t think I’d really thought about budget! Last time I actually bought a router was probably in about 2005!

Was something like a Linksys WRT54GL, come to think of it. Aah, thems were the days. I knew what I was doing and everything.

Thanks for the tips!

As much as an indulgent project like this appeals to my self-centred dork side, finding bits such as appropriate cranks does sound like a ballache, and it’s not like my 7yo kid will truly care about or appreciate the end result.

I’ll probably end up just getting a second-hand Islabike 24 & slapping some meatier tyres on it.

I have just ordered a 24" vitus for our youngest - https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/359943/#comment15816273

You could make a nod to your wild websurf days of yore & slap OpenWRT on the aforementioned £60 Mikrotik box...

Thanks! Just had a look at the rigid Vitus 24, looks almost perfect for the price but weighs 11.6Kg vs. 8.3Kg for the Isla Beinn 24!

I think my daughter might struggle bumping it up the steps to our house...

anyone been to one of those resports in the Maldives that has the over water villas?

No but would fucking love to.

I think I've a broken mojito or protone I've been meaning to bin. If you can pm me a photo of the bolts I'll see if they'll work?

Cheers! Will do...

2015 Macbook pro with retina display. Need to replace the battery. Apple price is £200.
Are there any feasible alternatives? Or is it highly advisable to take it to Apple?

As much as an indulgent project like this appeals to my self-centred dork side, finding bits such as appropriate cranks does sound like a ballache, and it’s not like my 7yo kid will truly care about or appreciate the end result.

100% agreed. I only did it because I acquired the bike, had a bunch of spare parts to upgrade it, access to a workshop for lots of consumables and the time and inclination to fettle it.

The rigid one is a plus bike - it has >800g 2.6" tyres....
Swap them out for something smaller along with some lighter inner tubes and you would probably knock a good amount of weight off it....
Will see how much the one I have ordered actually weighs when it arrives

Does anyone on here have knowledge of trademarks and intellectual property etc?

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https://hupcc.com/collections/hup-bikes-youth-cyclocross-track-road-framesets