It’s actually possible to source electric pepper mills to grind it for you, in fact. It just so happens that [MarioM66] had one to hand, and a door lock that needed automating. Seeing as ...

so impossible to fix, empty or refill. After that, I lived in Berlin and I don’t recall having a pepper mill (I don’t think I was cooking very much). And after that, I moved to London and had ...

Using pepper from a pepper mill also gives you better control over how much flavor you want a dish to have, not only by how much you actually end up grinding, but also by the size of the grind itself.