Side cutters are no fun for 1st fix, trying to cut anything bigger than 1.5 is not good on the wrists.

The bmw/psa prince engines have the cat all the way up in the engine bay, with the tail sticking down to connect onto the exhaust.

Can't believe the government is incompentent enough to allow this to be legal.
(oh wait, I can)

Read the rules.

Birmingham could be via Chiltern, which is usually quite inexpensive and just as vast as avanti

Basically every XC train is packed almost regardless of the time of day.

You should probably still have it though, you're a bit limited without it.

I have one of each, both have their own use cases, the second type is expecially good to deal with anything you don't want to chew up with the teeth in the first type.

You need two anyway to do SWA cables, so you can always get both.

I need (and want) 12v PD out, all chargers should really support it, Anker is just lazy and cutting corners on that where brands producing quality products for less money than Anker are including that.

I ended up getting two adaptors from SlimQ, the 140W 3c1a and the 100W 2c2a one. I only spent about £85 which is what anker wants for one 140w brick. I have been very happy so far and have had zero issues.

I unfortunately don't think I can come to the same conclusion as you do about the chargers you picked, since Anker are lazy and don't include the 12v PD mode on any of their power supplies. (Not to mention the other issues I have with anker.)

And 2391 Test and inspection for Napit/NIC.

That's not even a proper electrical reg, it's only a requirement for new builds, you can put your sockets and switches at practically any height you want in your own home.

This is super old stuff anyway, probably put in at least 50 to 60 years ago.

These cheap garbage adaptors have crappy contacts inside them, one plug has probably stretched them too far for the other, please buy a genuine adaptor made for your country as these things can cause fires.

If it's a TT then you (should) have an inspection pit somewhere for the rod, if you can't find it then there's no real way to check if the connection onto the rod is good, which I'd call an issue.

But this reading would be fine on a TT.

Not so simple, consider iOS like a different planet to Android, there needs to be alternatives for each planet.

I'm sorry to say that this is how a lot of tech users who are uneducated on the subject would think.

The need is to stop apple monopolising their app platform, if there was one supermarket, that supermarket can do whatever they want and charge whatever they want with no repercussions, since there's no alternative, well that's what apple does with the app store, and is why the EU forced this new third party app store thing into play, even if half assedly.

Well on android the main alternative market is Fdroid, full of fantastic free apps developed by individual small developers and with all the code open sourced, all stuff that won't get onto the play store for some reason, or because people didn't want to pay the fee.

It's not just about having 5 different app stores, but true alternatives, if apple is actually forced to do proper android style sideloading, developers in the app store can actually not have apple take such a significant and obscene cut from their revenue, like they do now.

There's lots of supermarkets for a reason, even if you just use one, the existence of the others will generally keep the prices reasonable in them all, and the more of them that exist, the better the competition is and ideally the lower the prices.

It doesn't open access to anything that someone who trawls enough through iOS's code couldn't do anyway, in the same way as someone could absolutely crack my /e/os phone given enough time, energy and motivating to do it. Apple can advertise how secure their phone is but they cannot know that for sure, especially as they add new features and fix other bugs in the code which create new ones, offering official sideloading is good because now it's "open", there will be lots of attempts to crack it, and apple can shotgun out security updates surrounding it, rather than people trying to sideload without it and discovering new holes there. The downside is that all of apple's codebase is closed source, unlike /e/os is, so now it's more difficult for security researchers to find these issues and report them.

Don't fear the system.

Edit: Also just as an argument, not using apple would improve your security, even if you moved to a device that has real sideloading and not apple's gimped version of it. The more non standard your device OS is, the harder it is for someone to just know how to deal with it straight away, it buys time, if you're serious about security, you should probably be using Graphine OS.

Either way, that's the compromise that has to be made, you sacrificed some security and privacy to use both, in the same way as you sacrificed them to use a smart device, regardless of said features on device.

Then if you're concerned about security and or privacy, smart devices and social media are both detrimental to it.

The hackers target corporations and military more anyway, as that's where the money, trade secrets and tech worth stealing is, not many people care about a politician's private pictures or texts unless said politican is high up and also controversial.

Especially when an exploit to the third party app system would only be able to used a select amount of times before it is patched (and the only appeal for a politician's stuff is for the mainstream news usually, whereas military tech can be stolen in secret), the value in using it on you is very low. You only need to have the next guy be more appealing to hack than you, as with any security.

The point is that the compromise of smart devices is the same regardless of the operating system, be it Google Android, or one of the other flavours of Android (Lineage, /e/os, Graphine etc), Linux phone or iOS/iPadOS.

This is what you and I signed up for, the addition of third party app stores does not make the security any worse than it already was, and neither does it make us mere mortals any bigger targets for hacking than we already aren't.

You and I are not targets for the majority of hackers, and the people that are big enough targets, were already having zero days developed specially for them that have nothing to do with this third party app store system. Apple has already locked down the third party app system so hard that it's practically sandboxed, it's honestly on you if you go and install virus apps, as it would be the same if I did it on any of my devices.

Unless apple left such a large security hole that apps can go and install themselves, which would be apple's fault as that's not a thing on android, you have nothing at all to worry about, and you just need to accept that this is a feature not meant for you, and that there's no concern to be had.

And you think there are not exploits for any new feature, device or addition that can be done? It's innevitable and the fact you care so much really shows that apple's "security" marketing garbage has worked on you, even when they're largely lying or making out like it's special when it isn't.

Like I said, apple has let bad apps slip through into the app store before and they will absolutely do it again, there is too much cost in trawling through every bit of code in an app. And it has been previously (and possibly still is) possible to install third party apps part officially, part unofficially from the browser.

There is no perfectly secure device, there is always an opening for someone to get in as soon as the complexity passes a certain point, and that doesn't really matter if you're not even someone worth hacking, the next guy with a million dollar bitcoin wallet, gigabytes of people's personal information, and who's the CEO of a military tech research company, is more appealing. If you really care this much then a 4G capable feature phone is $20 off ebay, and nobody will hack you then.

You don't need to block it, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, as the security hole in it is actually installing stuff from those third party app stores, which you aren't doing, so why are you even complaining? You clearly care enough to not let someone random access your device, which would be the only way that someone could compromise your phone through that. The feature is not for you, and that's fine, so don't kick and scream about it because it has no negative effect towards you.

But let's not talk about all the other security holes in iOS that we don't even know about but that people can abuse.

There was already previously exploits to install third party apps onto iOS devices, so this is just the official way now, which given it's maintained and intentional can be even more secure. And apple has let bad apps slip into the official stores in the past and will definitely end up doing so again in the future. If you want a totally "secure" phone, don't use iOS at all.

You know you don't have to have it if you don't want it, right? But how about you don't think solely about yourself and about the people who do want it.