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SilverSolder:

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--- Quote from: tooki on April 09, 2021, 05:23:34 am ---As someone who has lived in both North Carolina (the worst-ranked place in those graphs) and Switzerland (the best-ranked in those graphs), anecdotally, my experience completely agrees with that! (When I moved from USA to Switzerland the second time, I didn’t even bother buying a UPS, since the power here never goes out. Good enough for my home computing.)

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I suspect averages like that are misleading, it really depends on where you live. In my location for example the downtown urban areas may go years without a single power interruption while the outlying rural areas may lose power several times a month over the winter and the average of two extremes just a few miles apart is not a very useful number. If you were to look at my whole state, power outages are probably common, however at my house they have generally been rare, this last winter being an unusual exception where I had 3 significant outages. Downtown Seattle which is only about 12 miles from here I have never seen a power outage other than a very localized one due to something like a transformer failure that knocks out a specific building.

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The main issue in North America is the "pioneering spirit" electrical system where wires are strung up among the trees in rural / suburban areas...   what could possibly go wrong?  :D

Red Squirrel:
Quite a crazy turn of events.  Comes to show though that even professional commercial setups can and do fail.  Always have to be prepared and have offsite backups.  In this case they were not needed but things could have been worse.

eti:
Wow, EEVblog has a history of attracting water!

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: eti on April 09, 2021, 11:28:45 pm ---Wow, EEVblog has a history of attracting water!

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It's from all the dissing of those poor, harmless God botherers.

Having a gripe about the Hillsong peeps in the solar upgrade vid during their Easter festivus..well karma is a bitch.

Thou shalt be baptised.

Praise be. And God bless you, Dave.

Microdoser:

--- Quote from: Ultrapurple on April 09, 2021, 09:37:37 am ---Whilst it's been fun discussing the merits and demerits of high-capacity microSD cards vs terabit fibre vs No 8 wire
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You don't seem to have been here long, every thread descends into discussion of that type.

If you are trying to change that behaviour, you will be as effective as King Canute.

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