I do recommend it, if the circumstances allow it. LiFePo are such a step up in battery technology.

Just a tip for anyone considering it: Make sure to only use packs with an integrated BMS, as most of the shelves UPS models are designed for a different chemistry.

Addendum regarding the desk UPS: I’m thinking about one of the power stations with a < 10 ms switch time. Have yet to find one that plays well with NUT.

I have three UPSs.

Two at my desk: The smallest for my daily driver NUC, Eaton S3 850VA (510 W max) and enough for that purpose. The second is an Eaton Ellipse Pro 850 (510 W max) for my gaming PC. I want to replace both with a single device that has enough Oomph for both., but yet have to find a suitable model without fan noise at a reasonable price.

The largest is a APC SMT1000 that I got used without batteries, that I use in my rack for networking devices, some additional small devices, a Lenovo m920x and a custom build server (NAS, proxmox etc.). Usually the draw from the wall for that is 200 W. I added LiFePo packs instead of the Pb ones, as they are much more durable: 10 years instead of 2 to 3 years. As LiFePo packs have around 50 % continues load vs the Pb, the UPS ist purposefully oversized.

Where I live, we barely have outages, but they occasionally happen. Around once in two years. So it’s more a peace of mind. Hard to say, how often they in fact ‘saved’ anything.

Edit: Edited battery chemistry to LiFePo. Did an oopsie there. Corrected typo.

Certainly. 😋

Early worm gets eaten.

Please refresh that post when the “I’m sorry, thebardingreen. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” happens. ;)

Cool setup, wish I had the skills and mine, to realize something similar.

“Your desperation amuses me. Continue.”

Ergänzend könnte man die Grundannahme der These vom Pfostenhersteller hinterfragen.

Wie viele von denen, die (das heutige) Russland feiern, das tatsächlich aus Überzeugung tun müsste noch geklärt werden.

Dredd is (not?) very fond of your idea.

Usually around 205 W from the wall to UPS and 155 W used by devices connected to the UPS.

Who the fuck thought up having a manically depressed loaf of bread as a kid’s TV character?

This guy.

Just dropping it here, although I am 95 % sure, that question was rhetorical.

If it’s for the “wrong” recipients.

That’s sonservatives in a nut shell. Their whole world view is based on the conviction, that their ways are the correct ones which everyone has to live by. No exceptions.
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

Nein! Doch! Ooh!

At the moment, the corporate buzz swings in the opposite direction.
More and more back to office with limited HO days.

/me: Glances at the two ODD currently in use and three more in my shelf. Oh.

I’ll vote for ‘T9 MAX’.

What the hell, I feel generous. Let’s go with ‘T9 MAX+’.

You will never know my secrets! Nya-hahaha! *purrs*

My guess would be, the same strategies, every repressed community would use since ever.
As for why governments don’t use net logs, my assumption is, that those are not what they are after. Meeting might not be illegal, just same sex acts which are needed too be “caught in the act”.

1. I’ve read an article long time ago from an expat in, I think Saudi Arabia, in which he described how he tested grindr and got a match. When meeting with them, he got a bad feeling and stepped back.
2. There’s a a (sci-fi) novel with that premise, called “ABC Zhang”. It basically used the points, what others have told here: Mostly secret signs, that those who know, know.

Sooo, are the tech bros just oozing over from the AI bubble (not enough empty promises available anymore?) or is that a symptom for their realization, that the current scam might get busted in the foreseeable future and they want to get in on the next Blockchain / AI / metaverse schmutz, to keep leeching in VC / tax money?

I will get some popcorn…

To be honest, I think you are the one lying to yourself here. From the linked report:

Productivity and Business Processes $37,847 14%

Intelligent Cloud $39,306 32%

More Personal Computing $12,854 (4)%

“(4)” equals “-4”.

Even MS isn’t using windows exclusively. And they don’t care, as the long term scenario they are aiming for, is, that everybody only uses a minimal system and rents compute in the cloud. That’s, where the money is for them. I am quite sure, they don’t give a single eff, what those devices are using as an OS. It won’t be win 11 for sure.

So everything Windows as we know it, is what’s consumer GPUs are to Nvidia.

What are you trying to tell us?