Just a quick heads up

[Yogendra]

The problem is not only in electronics. Nobody is sewing. My mother wanted to redo her curtains. The materials cost more than a new curtain, and is already "ready". This is because there is nobody sewing, so there is no market, so high prices due to low volume.
I dropped my camera, the lens zoom (when turned on, the lens comes out) died. Repair was 50 euro more expensive than a new camera.
Bike pumps have a rubber seal, which, due to up/down motion degrades in about 10 years of use. The rest is metal and is ok. It's impossible to find rubber seals. Had to buy a new pump.

The problem is not only in the "do not repair", where all screws are "special" (like triangular screws) and require special screwdrivers to service, but also in the consumer's pursuit to buy a new model. So to have a part of a car, you also need to say which year it was build, or you get something different.
So the former is phonemakers that comes with a new build phone, all new parts, reaps the early profits, and does leave very little room for the aftermarket people that repair and sell components, because one month later (if they could, by law they need to support 2-3 years, but in their unsigned buyers contract it says 1 year) they are selling the next model and do not support the old one (not even software updates), while others actually sell that small thingy coil more than 10 years later.

Even for with the Pyra I do not know how to call the screw they use to hold the back together, by diameter, length, tilt and distance.

So some want to go to a model where you own nothing and lease/hire everything. Clothing, bed, kitchen, fridge. To be profitable, it means that the fridge is made out of standard components, and will always look the same (kinda like in the sovjet time). Bikes will all have standard components, or at least the frame. So I expect that the color will change a lot in order to make products feel "different".

Send your stuff to India. They repair everything And if parts not available they fabricate them

 

[pyrat]

I blame her too. She wouldn't even co-sign my mortgage, I mean how rude is that?

Ok. I don't live in the UK, and I don't know good enough either @Null, @netcat or their wives if any, but I daresay I don't find it so rude that @netcat's wife refuses to sign @Null's mortgage. Specially if she's otherwise nice.
Sometimes refusing to sign someone's mortgage can save him from ruin. You never know. And I could even not be the only one to think that mortgages aren't sexy at all. What about signing love letters ?

 

[Null]

What about signing love letters ?

Now I'm no marriage expert, but I'm not entirely sure that @netcat would be ok with me sending love letters to their wife.

 

[HelenF]

As a Brit, I've been watching the Brexit debacle with utter dismay, and I'm a little concerned that:-
a) No deal will be the outcome of the "negotiations", leaving us on WTO rules from 1st Jan 2021
b) The Pyra will ship and land on these shores after this date

Any other Brits in the same predicament? And has anyone any idea on what the extra tariff/import costs will be?

I'm also in the UK and wondering what will be the effect of Brexit on my Pyra order. I guess we'll have to wait for the negotiations to be officially over to find out.

 

[pyrat]

Now I'm no marriage expert, but I'm not entirely sure that @netcat would be ok with me sending love letters to their wife.

I'm no epistolary expert either, but I wouldn't advise anyone to send love letters to someone he doesn't love, regardless of anyone else finding that ok or not.
Many of us might agree that @netcat and his wife, instead, might be presumably ok sending each other love letters. They might even don't need stamps.
Still, I remain confident that signing mortgages is even more unlikely than signing love letters.

Now. Have @netcat, @Null and I derailed this thread enough that we've justified a new news thread with fresh Pyra news ? Because I can hardly try harder...

 

[Null]

but I wouldn't advise anyone to send love letters to someone he doesn't love

Indeed, it's a waste of bad poetry.

Because I can hardly try harder...

Amateur.

 

[Razy]

I'm also in the UK and wondering what will be the effect of Brexit on my Pyra order. I guess we'll have to wait for the negotiations to be officially over to find out.

Fellow Mancunian here. I can only hope that, in the case of no-deal, customs would be applied on anything that has been shipped after the cut-off date.
Also I'd rather pay a top fee to ED for super-duper high priority courier delivery that could have the pyra delivered before the 31st.
Else, I'd rather have ED keep the pyra in Ingolstadt so I can fly there and pick it up myself early next year

 

[docbroke]

......sending love letters to their wife.

their wife ?? what does that mean ?

 

[Djoga'Ro]

their wife ?? what does that mean ?

Gender-neutral pronoun, I guess.

 

[docbroke]

Doesn't it mean "wife shared by them" ? (their being pleural)

 

[Swordfish II]

Fellow Mancunian here. I can only hope that, in the case of no-deal, customs would be applied on anything that has been shipped after the cut-off date.
Also I'd rather pay a top fee to ED for super-duper high priority courier delivery that could have the pyra delivered before the 31st.
Else, I'd rather have ED keep the pyra in Ingolstadt so I can fly there and pick it up myself early next year

Germany is locked down through the New Year

Coronavirus: Germany to go into lockdown over Christmas - BBC News

The authorities have been struggling to control a growing number of infections and deaths.

www.bbc.com

 

[levi]

Yes, but ED's been able to run his shop through previous lockdowns.

 

[hns]

Yes, but ED's been able to run his shop through previous lockdowns.

We can continue to run online business. Only the majority of physical stores, schools etc. are closed to keep people away from each other and give the virus no chance to spread. Restaurants, sports and event locations are already closed for a while. And there are restrictions for personal meetings. I think the means are not much different as in all other countries fighting the virus.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

their wife ?? what does that mean ?

I wouldn't know whom a plural-their/they would entail, since Null was the speaker and Null, netcat, and netcat's wife were the only characters in the story thus far.

 

[pyrat]

Doesn't it mean "wife shared by them" ? (their being pleural)

Did you mean "plural" ? Because since wifes are human beings (although I read someone married a doll), they are pleural beings. Humans do have pulmonary pleurae. And as far as I know people don't share pleurae (or do some siamese twins do ? Or does it get transplanted sometimes ? transplants would be more transfer than sharing anyway, but with a live donor that keeps a part of the same pleura, then it'd be sharing, if it can be done at all).

(@Null, is this hard enough derailing or should I get into the semantics of "sharing wives" since people can't be shared because they can't be owned, but "wife" could mean the role, and not the person in that role, and then it would be a poligamous marriage what would be a shared relationship and then some husbands would be sharing some wives and some wives some husbands, or when all the people in the marriage would be same gender then they'd be wives sharing wives or husbands sharing husbands or err..., by the way, in bisexual poligamous marriages would the wife of one's wife be one's "wife in law"? )

 

[Null]

their wife ?? what does that mean ?

Gender-neutral pronoun, I guess.

Doesn't it mean "wife shared by them" ? (their being pleural)

The following link should clear things up. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/their

since people can't be shared because they can't be owned,

Modern-day slavery: an explainer

Slavery was abolished by most countries 150 years ago, but bonded and forced labour, trafficking and exploitation persist

www.theguardian.com

 

[F_Slim]

The following link should clear things up. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/their

their
determiner
UK /ðeər/ US /ðer/

A1
of or belonging to them:
He gave them their coats.

So it's "them their wifes" (followed by "Yeehaw!") ?

 

[Null]

So it's "them their wifes" (followed by "Yeehaw!") ?

Only if you're a resident of the colonies.

 

[Swordfish II]

Yes, but ED's been able to run his shop through previous lockdowns.

I put that out for the suggestion of flying to Germany to pick up the Pyra

 

[PowerGod]

TV NEWS: "During lockdown, the flights from UK to Germany augmented of 100%, the police is searching for clues."