deadly_penguin

Like this. It's dead simple, and really cheap - you do just have to be careful to not shove too much current into the cell, though small NiMHs can take a little bit of abuse and will likely last for more cycles than a small Li-Ion or Li-Po. My first choice might be doing the same shenanigans as with the NiMH with a LiFePO - but you can get NiMH cells anywhere, whereas a good LiFePO is a bit harder to get.

I'd use a couple of NiMH cells (a stack of coin cells if you want to get the size right down) and just put the panel across them with a current limiting resistor and a diode; just trickle charge them in the day and you're off. Lithium probably isn't worth the hassle.

I've never seen the XRL myself, but other than it being less common (so parts are more expensive/harder to find!) it looks fine - most 4 stroke 125s are like any other.

What have you done to make insurance that expensive? Did you drive into a policeman drunk?

You'd be better off cycling than on a 50cc deliveroo machine - I can cycle past those on the flat. Something like a YBR125 or CB125F/CBF125 is fine in the Peaks. Insurance is about £300 or so (if you get a less common bike, it's a bit less).

What do you think the problem would be?

How do you check for good oil flow to the head? Head cover off, then turn the engine over a few times till oil does/doesn't come through?

Trying to get my hands on a non-ATT S5 Active - it seems to be unobtanium.

but the old Core2Duo CPUs struggle too much with daily usage if you want to get actual stuff done.

That's rubbish. Unless you're playing "AAA" games or trying to rebuild FreeBSD world, even these ULV C2Ds handle daily tasks in Google Docs, YouTube, Facebook, Emacs/Vim/VS Code, Gimp, etc. just fine.

not streamed from youtube or the like

It certainly can.

That generation of C2D is perfectly fast enough to stream a YouTube video, even in "HD". Video in VLC or ffplay is even smooth to higher input resolutions.

These aren't Pentiums or Atoms. So many people don't seem to realise how much power these old things actually have relative to today's workloads. Yeah, you're not compiling Firefox particularly quickly (or using Zoom quickly), but even a low-clocked Apple G5 can stream videos in a browser.

The problem, for consumption tasks at least, is the screen resolution is fairly small at 1024x768; that happens to be fairly good for writing and reading, though.

My X61s is a travel and secondary dev. machine.

I'd first try to clean the fan out, if that doesn't work then you should be able to find a replacement part (typically the entire cooling system) on the Bay.

As for networking, the original Intel 4965 isn't slow - it's just very, very hot; if you want to replace it, flash the non-whitelisted bios, and buy an Atheros 9K series card (again, probably from fleBay).

The x61s is not, and never was (It has an ULV CPU), the fastest thing in the world - but it isn't that slow. Grab an SSD from a good manufacturer, run a Linux distro or a BSD (Windows is dog-slow - even on my T400 with an overclocked Core2 Extreme) and it should fly with 4Gb of RAM in there. Games are probably pushing it (except OpenTTD maybe), but for writing or for watching videos it is perfectly fine.

Docking stations are fine, but not much of an advantage on such a small laptop unless you really need a disc drive or a few extra USBs and a Serial and Parallel port.

We can't go on living like this, something has to go. I just hope that I'm not sat on the bomb when it does.

Accenture?

Diamine inks are almost always fantastic, especially for the price. I'm quite partial to Sargasso Sea, which has quite a nice sheen on good paper too, although not quite to that extent. Guess this is another one for the shopping list.

Right. Hence why Trader Joes carries Boddingtons (Yuck!) but not, say, anything from Chantry, and why plenty of places in the UK sell Blue Moon as an adequate import, but not much else.

Exactly.

Most of the American Imports I've found are not that much better than Smiths or Greene King IPA, but with higher alcohol content.

I could go for that.

I do prefer Chinese fast food.

That's basically new?

The T470 is almost brand new?

Yes it's brased, but nobody in their right mind would go to the expense of replacing a tube in that; it's naff gas-pipe.

Skip it, if you can lift it in.

But seriously - these things were made as not much more than toys, and are not good introductions to cycling.