iPod!
I expect this is what they call a "First World Problem". But even so it is a pain in the ass. My iPod Classic has decided that it will only charge if connected to one specific USB port on Claire's laptop. Luckily, I have an account on it that holds iTunes. Nothing happens when connected through a genuine Apple cable, connected to the mains with a genuine Apple plug. With 80GB capacity it has everything on it that I own in CD format as well as downloads from iTunes and Amazon. It's a mobile databank of my musical tastes for the last thirty or more years. Yes, I do have CD's on stuff I bought on vinyl back in the dark ages. So when it got very low today, so low that on the screen the battery had the smallest sliver of red showing, I had no qualms about firing up the Dell. Then panic mode started. The screen went off and ever so faintly it said something about recovery mode. Oh sh*t! Not here again! The iPhone 5S did this last ye...