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There are loads of “IXF” Chinese hollowtech II style cranks on eBay for ludicrously cheap that take standard MTB chainrings, and quite often come with BBs. I have one on my retro Cannondale and it works fine and doesn’t look out of place.
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Have you switched on Dark Mode on your phone?
Settings > Display and Brightness
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Adele "Someone Like You" (2011) has one whole bar of 2/4 time just before the first chorus.
(I admit this is the sort of answer that gets you barred from the pub quiz)
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Definitely a problem on the 15-inch - you're stuck with either running at native resolution with everything far too big, or running at Apple's suggested resolution with noticeably soft display and visible artefacts from the scaling - at least to me.
(I ran mine at maximum 1920x1200@2x, because if you're going to have scaling artefacts you might as well get the screen space in return)
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That's as negative as people who still want to be invited to product previews allow themselves to be.
Apple pulled the same shit with the 15-inch retina, setting it one notch above its hardware resolution, so it's nothing new.
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It ships with the screen res set to 1792x1120@2x, or 3584x2240.
The LCD is 3072x1920. It shouldn't be scaling pixels out of the box.
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It's the design they should have brought out in 2016. An apology computer.
It still has the pointless touch bar, and the awkward ports, and the low res screen, and the rest of their lineup still has the shit keyboard with no end in sight.
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Go to Apple Menu > About > System Report > Graphics/Displays. It'll give you two numbers "Resolution" and "Looks Like". The first is what's actually going over the wire to the monitor.
"Default for display" on my 4K is "Looks like 1920x1080", but it's rendered at 3840x2160 so you get nice hi-res text.
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Yeah, they literally print a big warning to put in loops right on the box.
e.g. first pic here (zoom in).
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I could say the same thing with longer words if you like. e.g. "the carrier transmits a unique cryptographically signed message to the phone that it uses to change the configuration of the cellular baseband modem to remove the SIM lock".
(I'm a bit unclear on the exact technical details of how exactly the message gets to the phone and whether it's the carrier or Apple that does the cryptographic signing, and so on, but you get the idea)
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AIUI the official way to unlock an iPhone is for the carrier and/or Apple to send some sort of code to the phone that flicks a switch in the hardware to unlock it.
So Apple might have a log of which phones they've done that for, but the fundamental unlockedness is down to the phone hardware. Phones that were unlocked from the factory or were unlocked by other means won't be on the list.
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AFAIK locking is done in the phone hardware, so there's no central database.
(well, Apple might be able to track it, but good luck getting data out of them)
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Bromptons handle much better with a bit of weight over the front wheel. You lose most of the twitchiness in the steering.
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Swiss Cottage is in Camden and the actual borough are quite keen to do something about it. It was only because it was bolted onto the doomed CS11 project that it didn't go ahead. No idea about current timescales though.
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The Secula Plus burns out in about 30 seconds if used without a front light. I’ve killed two of them this way.
(B&M advertises OVP on all its rear lights, but some say “short period” and some say permanent. Secula Plus is the former)
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The difference in height at the bars is 89mm. The length of the stem isn't shown on any of the Brompton diagrams, which is different between pre- and post-2017 M bar shapes.
tbh I think there's enough other variables (bar width, bar angle, cable angle, etc) that knowing the difference in height isn't going to help you. I'd leave the M cables on and eyeball how much excess you need to lose.
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No, it fingerprints the audio in your files to prove you have them, otherwise it would be ridiculously gameable. It also tries to match the right version of a song, which depends on the fingerprint rather than the name.
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It has to have the files to scan when you sign up, so if you don't have them and you're not already a user, it doesn't help you.
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10% of that saving is them not giving you a frame-mounted pump. The weight saving of the Ti fork and triangle is about 500g.
It made a bit more sense when the Ti model also included a lighter front wheel and a Ti seatpost. Both since discontinued.
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What kind of ticket? You should get extra bits for the bike space when you pick it up from a machine.
If it's one of their in-app barcode tickets, fuck knows.
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The article doesn't really get to the point that the new LNER and GWR trains were specified and ordered by the government, and the train companies have no choice in what they use. LNER is literally owned by the government too.
So this isn't about private companies doing whatever crap they can get away with, it's our own government choosing to give us crap.
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Will it be permissible to have a cable suspended over a foot path I've not seen this anywhere yet.
It's been seen on Angry Pedestrian Twitter.
I think the expectation is you'll fast charge it during journeys, same as with a petrol car. Some councils are flooding residential areas with slow chargers to allow people to top up near home, but usage of those seems pretty minimal from what I've seen.
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The Di2 battery is tiny (in mAh) so useless for any serious lights, and there's scarcely any benefit of charging it continuously, since it only needs topping up every couple of months, and you can do that off the dynamo without hard wiring if you really need to.
I could kind of understand having a centralised larger battery to run all electronics off, but I wouldn't want my gears to be dependent on janky homemade electronics, so that's where my enthusiasm for the idea runs out.
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I’ve tried this and it was made of such flimsy metal all of the force went into destroying itself rather than getting the crank off. Eventually the top casting sheered in half.
The crank is still attached.
My conclusion was you won’t get it off without heat. Find an LBS that has a blow lamp and a GBFO hammer.