The good news about Covid-19 is that IKEA near us now do home delivery and you don’t have to fight it out with the riff-raff who don’t live in an IKEA-sized house. That said, I one bumped into a Supreme Court judge in the paint department of our local B&Q.
I can see the advantages of smt, I just can’t do it, and it seems to me to be suited more to automation (like so very many things these days - I sound old, but you know what I mean). Don’t even get me started on multilayer pcbs! But again, the stuff we want requires more and more complexity, CPUs being the perfect example, and need algorithms to design circuit boards, and even circuits.
It’s not as if folks don’t want DSP, smartphones and computers so I shouldn’t complain 
With your social stratification it must be pure hell for you on a daily basis having to coexist with the common people - the populace!
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I’m not sure what an Ikea sized house is, but a flat pack house might be useful?
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Well, I had to go to B&Q on Sunday because I took down some 180cm IKEA roller blinds assuming I could replace them, and they don’t sell them anymore. Then I found someone had thrown away the brackets from the old ones and couldn’t put them back up. I didn’t check the social profile before going to B&Q, but it was down in Surrey, so probably much more landed gentry than the generally common folk up here in North London. My new discovery is Toolstation Click&Collect. There is a branch a short walk from home.
The benefit of knowing some extraordinarily wealthy people is the knowledge of how “common” we are. The thing that strikes us most is how some people think money makes them different and different rules apply to them. Some people we know thought Covid-19 did not apply to them, because of their wealth or social status, and how it was so terribly inconvenient and cramped their lifestyle. Villas and yachts in the South of France inaccessible. Horrific.
I’ve done lots of DIY in lockdown and the wife has taken up gardening. I’ve just waterproofed a flat roof, so again lucky my house isn’t 50,000 sq ft.
p.s. My wife is now back working and just had a client this morning, who is Sales Director of a major UK high street retailer. She says we’re in this for the long haul and they’re not expecting “normal” for a long time to come.
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shield indoors until next april is the latest (medical) advice for my wife. good thing i like staying in.
Not true. I am actually very humble. We have not left here in months due to our age group. I really do not think that I am to good or anything like that. In fact I am ashamed about it all. Please don’t say that about me. You do not know me. I know I have boasted and even outright lied. I have some problems but I would never undermine anyone whatsoever.
If it can go in another room it is a done deal. It just needs to go around the corner into a closet.
I seem to remember your dining room doubles up as a workshop. My budget for the Super DAC has been spent on Dulux, pot plants, concrete and a load of granite tiles due to arrive in an hour.
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Don’t worry, were only having fun, but I still wouldn’t want to waterproof your roof. I’ve known a chap since I was about 3 who collects hotels like you collect audio. He’s spent Covid-19 on his 300ft yacht. Can’t say I blame him.
Ha good luck with that!
Oh and - a house the size of an Ikea store - I get it now,
I’m slow today…
…I still like the idea of a flat pack house though
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Assembled with a hex key.
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That gets wobbly every 6 months unless you re-tighten everything.
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You can get flat pack houses. I had a client who built one. It called Huf Haus. You can DIY or get them to do it for you.
My wife’s clinic at the end of the garden came flat-pack from Roumania.
p.s. Granite slabs are HEAVY. Glad that’s done.
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there’s a chicken house at the end of our garden (not ours) which means it is 20 feet from the bedroom windows. for some reason they have 3 cockerels.
i’d rather it were an imported romanian flat pack clinic…
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Too heck with the hex key, I want to see the instructions!
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Is it the sort of hex key that shears in half as you tighten up?
There was a domestic UK brand years ago when flat pack started that had a reputation that every single product would have at least one part missing or broken. You phoned up and it would arrive in the post about a month later. Thankfully they went bust.
I did actually go to IKEA recently as it’s our local Covid-19 testing station. I didn’t get a chopping board whilst there.
Are you referring to MFI by any chance?
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@2chan4ever I’m not mad that you have an issue with 2 boxes. I have other reasons why the TSS doesn’t appear to be a fit for me personally.
I’m more jealous I can’t afford the MSB DAC you have!
It was on the tip of my tongue. Thank you.