There is some magnet or sensor in the filter and if they is some small misalignment it refuses to work, I’ve had to replace the filters on at least 2 Dysons because of this ‘feature’. I’m not sure what it achieves… other than ensuring you need to replace parts after you’ve cleaned it a few times and the fit gets sloppy.
That’s fair, I’ve told her now… no more surprise Dysons. Just thinking though for the ~£500 a new one would cost I could buy a lathe, and enough tooling, titanium, glass Fiber reinforced plastic etc to remake every failure prone component.
That is a fair assumption but I only bought the first two… the other three were “joint” purchases, where I came home to a new vacuum, and phrases like, “I can’t carry the old one up the stairs”, “we needed a new one, and this is purple!”, “the old one doesn’t get the dog hair up properly, and this one has an Animal head” etc.
You do have a point… but this Dyson is my ~5th I think in the last 20 years, I think the motor went on my first one, then the on button/control board failed on the next, after we are into the battery era and I still have them but they are now ‘garage vacuums’ where genuine batteries are no longer available but they share a cheap eBay battery which needs replacing again.
Thinking back I think I needed to replace a roller belt on the Sebo about 15 years ago, for around £2 from a shop in town. Given the vacuum was probably 25 years old at that point impressive the parts are available and so cheap.
And only a 3 seater sofa
Extended family “IT Guy” here. Have replaced 30ish laptops batteries. The cheap ones on Amazon/eBay you have a ~30% chance of them being DOA, and 99% chance of them being dead within a year.
“Brands” like Duracell GreenCell I’ve had better luck with but I’ve been sent batteries from GreenCell which only lasted a year because they were sitting on a shelf for 3 years before they were sent to me.
OEM batteries tend to last longer than the originals as most BIOSs from Dell, Lenovo etc. now include battery optimisation which extends the life of cells.
It all come down to what you need, and how much you value your time compared to money. My personal stuff I always go OEM as I rarely replace my laptops. Current one from 2015 is still going strong. If you are willing to put up with returns and rapid replacements a £20 cheapie can look good when the OEM is £100
EDIT: Sorry just re-read your question. The OEM at 75% health is dead already. The cheap no-name ones are probably just random used cells thrown together.
You’d probably be better off with the no-name but for this use case just get the cheapest thing with a 1year warranty and cross your fingers.
I do kinda want that wallet.
Don’t worry the government will make it all better by spending millions on schemes to promote heating, cooling and insulation options behind 17 layers of bureaucracy making it somehow horrifically expensive with almost zero profit for tradesmen and disallowing any DIY options.
For the hot humid nights the only real solution is air conditioning, we’ve had it for the last three years and it‘s bliss!
However… we also:
Thanks to all the above we have not needed the AC so far this year.
I went back through your posts to find out where you were based… and I have discovered that there are in fact many stupid questions 😀…
This may be different in the US as your distances are a little larger… but we charge at home overnight and have never needed to charge anywhere else. Every morning we have 250miles available and 1200miles a month costs us ~$30 in electricity.
You may be able to get a prepaid debit card and use that on public charging stations for long journeys or emergencies.
User replacement of “Activation Locked” new, 2nd hand, and OEM parts can be done, should be done, won’t be done.
They still are, this was a temporary issue fixed with the next firmware update IIRC. Have 3 Brother Lasers all printing perfectly with 3rd party toner, never had an issue.
Didn’t this turn out to be a bug, which Brother reversed?
The leaders of the DNC chose wrong, America was not given the option.
Competition does not work for an industry where each product is infinite so can’t ‘run out’, but is subject to exclusivity agreements.
That’s an odd number plate for Scotland, looks Turkish?
That was really informative - so much so you should watch it… but if you really can’t; there are 6 types of data broker and these services only target 1 and in that one they only manage to remove ~1.5% of that data in 6 months of membership.
Sorry I should have clarified; the notifications on replies are when I reply to someone else’s post. If I start a new thread I just notice I don’t get any replies or notifications. My posts are just removed completely, I’d say it happens to around 50% of my comments on YT. I suspect I’ve been mass-reported by right wing bots, and my account is now marked for extra censorship in some way.
When I post something about Musk/Tesla it posts successfully, I get replies to the thread, and I can see my post, but if I view the same thread without being logged in, my reply is missing.
This is the only justifiable way to acquire a Dyson in 2025. I saved a friends vacuum from the bin by dismantling it and pulling a clog out of a pipe, so many I’m sure get thrown away because people just don’t maintain them and assume they are broken.