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

[foobarsoft@mastodon.social]

@foone Oh I’m sorry.

It amazes me how bad UPS are at this. Mine has outlets, all black, with a thin white silkscreen explaining which side is which. You have to be up close to read it.

Why not use colors like hospitals? Normal for normal and orange for backed up. Or yellow.

Or how about only backed up outlets only?

Bad design.

[flamecat@bark.lgbt]

@foone Ohhh, I read BEEpocalype first, not BEEPocalypse. That makes a bit more sense. But I don't know which one is more fun.

[kiloku@burnthis.town]

@foone ... Are you ok?

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@seabass @foone I think this calls for replacing your recliner with the most famous product of Martin-Baker Ltd.

[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.