digdilem

after our kid was born she said I smelled differently and she was repulsed by me.

Oh, man, that's brutal.

Other have answered the runtime and load question very well already.

I have three other points.

1. Batteries degrade over time. Over-speccing your UPS means more likelyhood that things will hold up in three years time as the capacity given is for new ones. Plus, not running your UPS at 100% capacity reduces its stress. Again, more reliable.

2. You can get a much better quality UPS by buying a second hand one without batteries off ebay and replacing them yourself, typically for a fraction of the cost of buying new. Plus you know you have new batteries. UPS is something where quality genuinely matters. I've had to carry a cheap and badly made UPS out of an office whilst it was on fire, so now I spec more carefully. (And ensure they're metal bodied!)

3. Consider what you NEED to power. What sort of power cuts are you expecting? Does it matter if something goes down?

I UPS my servers and my main desktop, but not my routers, nor my wifi or IOT things. My internet provider also goes out when there's a cut (I'm on a mesh system so rely on neighbours, who will typically also be down) and I can't do much without power anyway, but it keeps the disks spinning. We typically get very short automated outages here of less than 10s (yesterday was a bad day, we had 9 within 2 hours)

I mean, we knew that anyway, right?

Stolen? The employees were paid, weren't they?

Personal knowledge can provide a level of detail in mapping simply unavailable elsewhere.

What a rubbish article. Complete non-story.

Thanks, but from context, it almost certainly is what they meant.

It's not /just/ about colour. Plenty of white people are being detained illegally. The only way to be certain not to be illegally detained in the US is not to visit the US. Sadly, not an option for many people who are already there.

Debian for about two decades: It would take something pretty major to shift me - probably a hostile takeover, major policy shift or commercialisation, none of which is likely.

At worked we shifted from Centos to Rocky for the obvious reason, and are happy with the choice so far.

It's dangerous. People are a 35 times more likely to be killed by guns than my country.

Whatever you use, don't build it to a definitive target.

From personal experience, which may not be universal: No matter how carefully you plan this, your needs will change sooner than you think. Expect to re-organise things things, make changes constantly, and occasionally deal with messes you made. We do this to tinker and play and experiment, and that creates mess.

So design something you can change. Luckily, that is what racks are about anyway, but do stuff like having space behind it for an extra coil of cable, space between servers, a shelf or two for those annoying random things, ability to extend. Space around it to work and move (don't fix it to a wall in such a way that you can't reach it all - wheels are good together with enough cable flex to be able to easily pull the rack out so it doesn't go Whoo..... as everything suddenly powers down)

Obviously some rules are hard-baked, like "heavy stuff at the bottom", but be fluid.

What, they're listening to the courts now?