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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…

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An optimum layout doesn’t matter when you can’t build the chips.
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The solution turns out to be putting all the configuration options back in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, exactly where they started.
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It turns out that the buttons on the front are remarkably easy to squash in your pocket.
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Having obtained eyeballometric measurements from the case, the next step was to doodle some shapes on graph paper and pencil in the dimensions.
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The first step was to get all the relevant dimensions from an existing pack.
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On the bright side, it’ll be a lot easier to bike across the bridge…
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Grab a screw in a pin vise, brace it on the bench vise, and file off everything that doesn’t fit: