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It’s fucking easyJet. So no idea of they will help out

The airline is supposed to arrange accommodation, but scumbag airlines use the excuse of being overworked and understaffed and make the passengers organise it for themselves and then claim for reimbursement, then delay, prevaricate and nickel-and-dime people over every little thing because the passenger should have registered for a fucking clubcard in order to get 50p off the meal deal 😡

https://www.airhelp.com/en-int/ec-regulation-261-2004/

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Have sent that to my friend

Is it still the case that leaving battery powered stuff plugged in permanently is bad for the battery (a sonos speaker in this case)?

I could rig something up to only turn the charger on when it drops below a certain level and turn it if off when it reaches 100% but don't know whether that is actually required or not.

Pretty sure that’s not the case anymore
Certainly isn’t for laptops

I could rig something up to only turn the charger on when it drops below a certain level and turn it if off when it reaches 100%

Most 21st Century stuff already has that logic built in to the device or the charger. Not much that's modern even uses NiCd or NiMH cells, which are the ones which are fussy about being on-charge long term.

Would it be the case that NiMH cells are happy with an intelligent charger (Technoline BL-700) which supposedly monitors and controls the amount of charge current the cells need?
I have two of these chargers, with batteries in them on a permanent basis. I've had no fires and the batteries have always been fine when I've taken them out to use them.

I can't speak to the specific model, but I think it's the case that one could design a monitoring and charging device to optimise the condition of NiMH cells while keeping them pretty much fully charged.

I was under the impression that with modern (lithium-ion) batteries as used in apple devices (and I think sonos speakers as well) the only thing to avoid is having them sit around fully charged and not using them - hence they do this "optimised charging" now where the device learns when you're needing the full charge (when you get up) and only charge the battery up to 100% shortly before that time.

Looking for a bit of help as I have very hard times seating my tires on my rims.

I use the same tire on both of my bikes (Schwalbe G-One Allround), but I can not get to seat it correctly on both of my wheelsets, which have rims from Ryde (Andra 40 and ZAC 421).
Therefore on some places of the tires the bead seems not hooked into the rim and "plunges" below, which creates wobbles. I rode it "as is" for quite some time, but noticed it had damaged the tire flanges on my bike with the ZAC rims.
Today I changed the damaged tire on this bike, and tried another wheelset with Velocity Atlas rims, and it seems to seat correctly. Will see tomorrow if it remains seated.

Then, I deflated the wheelset with the Andra rims, and re-inflated with soapy water and high pressure with the floor pump, which seemed to work to seat the tire, and left it like this for about 30mn ; then de-flated it to the pressure I ride and it seemed to have remained seated correctly so I was happy. But I rode it tonight, and after 25km, the tires "unseated" again, plunging on one area of the tire.

Is it possible that one specific tire type can never seat correctly on a specific set of rims? what else could I try to get it to seat? Do I need to consider different tires which would be a pain, as I quite like the G-One Allround

Is it possible that one specific tire type can never seat correctly on a specific set of rims?

It's possible that one specific tyre can never seat correctly on a specific rim. Sometimes something gets missed by QC and an out-of-tolerance product makes it into the supply chain.

Old fashioned rims like ZAC and Andra series are particularly poorly suited to tight tyres (e.g. TL/TLE/TLR styles) at low pressures.

what bothers me is that it happens with all four G-one Allround tires on all four Ryde rims, which leads me to believe that it might not be "compatible" (which is not the right word, but you get the idea).

So it means it is new tire model time?

Ta. I think that's what I have here. In use since 2006/7 and 2012 for the second charger.

new tire model time?

If you like the tyres, it's new rim time. ZACs and Andras are not for the kind of people who use G-Ones, they're beater rims most suited to wire-bead tyres with tubes.

My understanding with Lithium-Ions is, that to prolong battery life, you charge them when they've dropped to 30%, and take them off charge when they reach 80% of full capacity.
According to the IT bod at work, I shouldn't keep the work lappy I have permanently at home, plugged into the charger all the time. Having said that, it is an ancient HP, from darker times.

fuck me so it is either affordable rims with shit tires or "high-end" rims with good tires? shit dilemma

so it is either affordable rims with shit tires or "high-end" rims with good tires?

Yep

will probably try the panaracer col de la vie, slightly larger than what I want, but the low price and wire bead might be a good candidate

Yes, this is the kind of thing I was wondering about. My laptop has all sorts of stuff in the bios about battery charging settings and phones do weird stuff about overnight charging so I assume there are still some issues with charging. It's just whether it's smart enough to take that into account without manual intervention.

I want to put a seatpost inside a seatpost to make an extension.

What size clamp for my frame do I need for a 31.8 seatpost?

What size seatpost will fit inside a 31.8 seatpost?

Thanks

You will need to measure both of those things. There is no one size. Though there are some common sizes depending on your frame material

OK thanks Phil.

also, some posts are oval internally - thomson for example

I want to put a seatpost inside a seatpost to make an extension.

I would advise against it, but if you must go down the telescope route just buy some plain tube with the desired dimensions.

31.8 is not a common size, are you sure you don't mean 31.6?