A fun thing about having every part of your life on a UPS is that when PG&E kills your power for funsies, all those UPSes turn your house into THE BEEPOCALYPSE

[aschmitz@ostatus.lardbucket.org]

@foone I turned off the beep on all of my UPSes except one for more or less this reason (and hope I don't accidentally lose a single circuit or the wrong phase and need to be notified about it), but the dual-fed Supermicro power supplies are very unhappy about power loss too and I'm not sure I can do anything about them.

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@seabass @foone you usually see their transformer bricks with a slot for a 9v battery. Haven't actually tried it, but I guess it'd be just enough to unbind the worm gear so you can manually move the recliner.

[cadbury_moose@wandering.shop]

@cstross @seabass @foone

They almost certainly don't want to exit the recliner through the ceiling though. 3:O(>

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@foone @hp no lies detected

[hp@mastodon.tmm.cx]

@foone no that's "computers" that not "fun".

Common mistake.

[seabass@social.seabass.systems]

@Cadbury_Moose @cstross @foone Explosive canopy release required!

"Oops, I think we need to call the roofers again"

[cadbury_moose@wandering.shop]

@seabass @cstross @foone

Wallace and Gromit could sort something less destructive (and probably much more amusing) with no trouble at all.

<EVIL Grin>

[foone@digipres.club]

@Kiloku yeah I escaped

[paulhey@social.vivaldi.net]

@foone Welcome to McDonalds, how may I take your order?

[rasterweb@mastodon.social]

@foone I popped open the one nearest to the bedroom and replaced the piezo with an LED so now it blinks (quiet!) but I never notice it (silent!).

[fuzz_ra@kind.social]

@RnDanger @seabass @foone

"Pull for Emergency Yeeting"

[fuzz_ra@kind.social]

@foone

Sounds like an excuse to upgrade the chair batteries until they could fire a rail-gun.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone BEEFPOCALYPSE was my nickname in high school

[gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@foone

Power: "hold on, BRB"

UPS collection: "Rave dance party!" 🪩
[lights and rhythmic beeping ensues]

[foone@digipres.club]

@gloriouscow hell yeah

[foone@digipres.club]

7 hour outage. PG&E delenda est.

[shnooflebear@curly.cat]

@foone JFC that sounds like Texas when the sun is shining a little too loud...

[maddy@thegayagenda.fans]

@foone@digipres.club Oh nooooooo! ​​

[foone@digipres.club]

(my sister joked "well, at least the rain will probably keep them from burning down the neighborhood")

[maddy@thegayagenda.fans]

@foone@digipres.club What the heck, that's brutal. ;-;