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That windbreaker is causing a lot of drag. 
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The answer my friend, is blow blow blowing in the wind 
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Update: Looks like that's fixed it, for the moment.[^]
It hadn't. So ... I bit the bullet and got a replacement part.
It's the micro USB connector, the PCB that's located on,, the headphone connector and its mounted to, a flexi PCB between them, and a dinky little 22pin, 0.5mm spacing, locking ribbon connector which attaches it to the main board.
All you have to do is open the tablet, disconnect the battery, undo three screws, move the speakers out of the way, undo five more screws, open the latch, remove the connector PCB(s), fit the new one, close the latch, replace the screws, replace the speakers, replace the three screws that hold that, reconnect the battery, and push the back back on.
Tools: tiny phillips screwdriver, tiny flat head screwdriver (for the latch), plastic thing what takes the back off.
Total time: under ten minutes.
Total cost? £3.50 for the bit, £1 for the plastic thing what takes the back off (which is probably not reusable, they are cheap plastic). Screwdrivers I have in abundance.
Full charge from empty in a couple of hours (using my 2A charger).
That'll do, that'll do ... 
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Truth time: how many parts were left over after you put it back together?
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Just the old bit I replaced.
I learned at a young age that when you dismantle something, you take care to ensure there isn't anything left over with motorcycle engines. The main reminder was the gear change return spring incident where I discovered that going up the gears was fine without it, but you couldn't go back down. And that included neutral, sod it.
I don't like to make the same mistake twice
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Experience: Recognizing a mistake the second time you make it. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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What bike Paul ?
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That was my first - a 1970 Honda CD175: Honda CD175 - Wikipedia[^]
After a while, I could tell when it was going to break down - it would get up to 70mph.
Gawd the things I broke on that ... rear sprocket drive bolts (all four of them, trying to do a hill start: that was entertaining), cam chain tensioner, cam end caps, rockers, pistons, bores, and when I dropped a valve pretty much everything! You learn a lot about bikes: fixing them, falling off them, breaking them again ... I think I got taking the engine out, stripping it, and putting it back together down to under two hours at one point.
Then I replaced that with a CB250T, a selection of CB550's, several Norton Commandos, a couple of CB650s*, some more CB550s, before I crossed to V twins with TR1's, XV535's, a few Vigargo 1100s, and then to Guzzis and Ducatis. I think there were a couple of Kwaks and a race tuned Suzuki trail bike in there, but I can't remember the order any more.
* Why? Why more than one? I'd had one and that was punishment enough...
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You where doing all right until you got to tarts handbag Virago , I've still got three bikes in the garage that I never ride these days - A VFR 750 ( best bike I ever had ) an MVF4 750 ( worst bike I ever had ) and a 1962 Norton Dominator which is going to be my winter project - any more motorcyclists out there ?
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Actually the Virago 1100 wasn't bad - it had the best seat and handlebar position combo I've ever ridden, you could go hundreds and hundreds of miles in a day and feel fine at the end. And excellent at commuting into the M25 every day. Very good shaft drive, too - no tendency to "climb the pinion wheel" under acceleration. Nice low CoG.
Didn't handle worth a damn, grounded out far too easily, and with the standard tires way overbraked at the front (to the point where an emergency stop locked up the front wheel ahead of the back). A pair of Pirelli Route 66 fixed that. Nice engine if a bit "sewing machine", and the exhausts rotted far too quickly.
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Is that the Chuwi Paul ?
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No, the Nexus 7 - the WookieTab would be a rather slower to open - the cover is screwed on, clipped on, and has a sticky patch to hold it all together apparently.
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I am sooooooooooooooo fed up with all the MS office security "features".
Yes, when I open a document, it is for using or modifying it, so don't open it read only and do not deactivate the content to "protect" me.
Yes, I know what is a macro and no, I do not want you to disable everything when I open my file.
I know, this is a setting, or a bunch of thousand settings in that freaking Trust Center. But you have to re-check them after every freaking update, over and over again.
And at my work place, this is enforced by policy. For every SINGLE file MSOffice that I open, I have to unblock it or to tell it to activate macros.  
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It gives the office people something to do 
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Opening a Office-document is as dangerous as running an executable.
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One of the most annoying 'features' is that you have to allow editing of a document before you can print it.
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Jacquers wrote: One of the most annoying 'features' is that you have to allow editing of a document before you can print it.
of course, they worry you may off-line edit it, i.e. with a pen or such other dangerous implements.
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<slow clap=""> Brilliant. 
What if you want to save your chances?
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Yep! It's there for a reason.
If you get Office documents from 3rd party sources consistently, then a "weird" one shows up that you don't immediately know is "weird", the document doesn't have a chance to execute its "payload".
We got bit by that once. It spread by converting every folder it saw into a shortcut to a folder of the same name. That was fun.
ONCE because that policy is enforced.
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I am working in a 300,000 people organisation. About half of these open between 50 and 100 office files a day. What is the cost of billions of unneeded clicks compared to a reformat of one infected computer ?
Plus, people are now so used to clicking that they do not pay attention anymore if the file is "weird" or not.
All in all, this is utterly useless.
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Rage wrote: What is the cost of billions of unneeded clicks compared to a reformat of one infected computer ?
What is the cost of clicking the button, compared to the cost of the enormous fine you'll be hit with when a macro installs a RAT, and exfiltrates all of your customer data?
What is the cost of clicking the button, compared to the cost of recovering from a ransomware infection that encrypts every single accessible file on your network?
You say it's enforced by policy. That means the people in charge have decided that the cost of clicking the button is worth it to mitigate the risk of allowing documents from untrusted locations to execute whatever code they like.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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