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What's a good free or single purchase PDF reader/editor?

Have you looked at Foxit?

London Bike kitchen if you're North, 56a if you're South.

My android phone charges with USB-C and the charging port just stopped working.

It's going back to the manufacturer for warranty repair. Sadly I couldn't complete a backup before the battery ran out so I'm going to lose some data.

Any suggestions as to how to get some charge to it? Presumably if there's a broken connection of the charger to the internal circuit board (which is what I suspect) then I'm out of options.

Wireless charging?
Removable battery that could be charged in a different handset?

Have you tried cleaning it, a pin or something to get all of the fluff out. It can often build up so much that it won't charge.

^ highly likely this unless you know there's other physical damage. Use a sim removal tool or a thick needle and very carefully dig in around the edges being sure not to scrape the connection in the centre. Loads will come out. It's very tough and compacted and you might not initially think there's anything in there but persist.

Before you acquire it, what's your plan for disposing of it?

Blasted it clean with an air duster already, and I have visually inspected to confirm all the contacts inside are visible and not covered by fluff/goo.

Cheers, sadly neither applies for this device.

Air duster (from a can) did nothing to clear mine and it was so packed down that it didn't look like anything other than the plastic of the phone.

I find a spring from a QR skewer is perfect of you unravel it a bit, nice flat, thin but quite strong, turn the phone off first though because it's metal and might short something possibly. I've gone at them with toothpicks and thought it was clean then the spring dug out a load more shit, really gets stuck in there. Annoyingly I think the wireless charging on my pixel 3 has just died so will have to deal with the port more often.

I've had good results with this kind of magnetic charging cable, keeps crap out of the port and eliminates the wear and push/pull forces which can damage the port or it's connection to the PCB. My one caveat is that the magnetic pull can be stronger than the plug pull-out force, so you might need to help things to respond correctly to a tug by hot gluing the port adapter to your phone. I've done this, and it works without doing any lasting harm, and it seals the port even more

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Those brake clamps have been in the liquid of doom for 5 hours- no visible change to the paint.

no visible change

The change will be tactile - once the paint is saturated with solvent, you'll be able to wipe it off like wet paint. After donning the Marigolds, obvs.

For the amount of money you've spent on those brakes, why not just buy new ones in the colour you want?

For the amount of money you've spent...why not just buy new

Because project

Also because they are simply not made

Anyone spray painted or dyed a bag made from Cordura? Want to change the colour of my messenger bag.

@farewell
I cannot see that ending well.
Buy a new bag in your colour of choice.

Ah they only do the bog standard brake clamp in colours. As you were

I’m writing a sci-fi story for a competition, and I have a couple of astrophysics/ simulation theory queries.

In my story, black holes are akin to USB ports onto which information from the Universe is being drawn, for eventual removal. It’s my my understanding that the size of a black hole can be measured or approximated with the aptly named Schwarzchild radius. Is this radius on the event horizon? Does the size of a black hole impact the size of the singularity? Is the density of the singularity infinitely dense? Regarding white holes, is dark matter also theoretically expelled or is the energy+mass mix reconfigured in the wormhole?

Simulation theory and sci-fi-wise, has this idea been written about?

There's also a thread about this sort of thing, it might be more visible there rather than in the constant maelstrom of questions here. :)

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/181075/

Cool, thanks for that. 👍

1. Are TRP Hylex the only hydraulic disc brake sets that offer drop bar levers without shifting function?

2. This 11-speed Alfine Di2 Pompetamine project is giving me a headache, so much incompatibility (with my head as well), if anyone could point me toward details of a successful project like this it would be awesome :-)

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have now looked through all the settings on both phones and checked they are the same, not tried any other activity tracker and not sure if there's anything that will work with iphone 5.