I’ve noticed odd power outages that are becoming more and more common around my neighbourhood, and I’m renting my place, so I started looking at maybe getting a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply, not the courier company). I know it’s not particularly part of a PC, but I’m trying to use it to better safeguard my machines against sudden power outages.

Anything worth knowing or keeping in mind while I look? Recommendations are welcomed too. Thanks!

Edit: Thank you all so far for your replies. Am adding to the bottom of the post to add a bit of context to try narrow down the scope a little bit.

I’m trying to build my first NAS, with spinning drives, and would love to be able to power down the NAS gracefully in the event of an extended power out (like, more than 30s?). I have some backup solution for important stuff, but would hate to lose the videos and music files that I have.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/51506836

I don’t usually do stuff like advertising, so let me know if I missed anything. Just sharing an event that some people I know are organizing.

Fans of Pokémon, and especially if you love Pokémon cards, some friends are organizing the very event for you — Pokémon Social!

Head on to Labodega at 132 Ahren’s St W, on Sept 19th (Fri) from 6 - 9 pm, and meet fellow Pokémon lovers and card collectors over snacks and drinks, including Pikachu and Eevee-themed sundaes.

You’ll even get a chance to get some custom, hand-drawn Pokémon cards!

I realize that I’m posting this in the Waterloo community but I’ll be cross-posting this to the Kitchener community as well.

I don’t usually do stuff like advertising, so let me know if I missed anything. Just sharing an event that some people I know are organizing.

Fans of Pokémon, and especially if you love Pokémon cards, some friends are organizing the very event for you — Pokémon Social!

Head on to Labodega at 132 Ahren’s St W, on Sept 19th (Fri) from 6 - 9 pm, and meet fellow Pokémon lovers and card collectors over snacks and drinks, including Pikachu and Eevee-themed sundaes.

You’ll even get a chance to get some custom, hand-drawn Pokémon cards!

I realize that I’m posting this in the Waterloo community but I’ll be cross-posting this to the Kitchener community as well.

I’m in the market for a good pair of hiking boots, saw no posts about it, so I thought, might as well!

Any good recommendations?

I must say that I’m also rather unfamiliar with what makes a good pair of hiking boots so I’d be grateful if you’d share why they’re good.

"Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine," Trump posted on Truth Social. "That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh' Canada!!!"

RIP Coal

I am once again here asking for a product, fully expecting with yet another “you probably won’t find a Canadian alternative for this”. I was surprised with the smartwatch + fitness tracker options last time, so I think this might be worthwhile too.

Does anyone know of an energy monitoring plug? Too many of these are made in China by Chinese and American companies, so I’m hoping to find alternatives here.

Ideally, I’d also like to hook it up with Home Assistant, and either via Zigbee or Matter. If it’s WiFi-only, that’s fine too, but preferably not, cause I don’t want to add more WiFi devices on my network, if possible.

I thought this was a great analysis of the published meeting between Carney and Trump so thought I’d share it here, not only because this is also my takeaway from the meeting: nothing’s actually done in a practical sense, but a bridge is built without compromising Canada’s position, and, more subtly and interestingly to Canadians, without actually praising Trump, but got him and his supporters to think that he’s being praised. It’s my first time actually liking doublespeak lol.

And I think it’s a great display of restraint from Carney, a kind of restraint we should have as adults. A close friend of his was insulted right in his face, and he took it without saying anything back, only to give out a response to a later question by a journalist in a way that is both slightly elaborately vague and lightly sugarcoated, just enough for you to maybe guess what his thoughts were when that exchange went down.

Also, if someone knows if CBC posts these anywhere else but YouTube, it’d be great if you could share that with me. I’ve updated the link to CBC’s website. Thank you @[email protected]!

I fully expect this to be an “I don’t think there’s any good replacement” scenario, but I’d love to hear some options. I also know that this isn’t a good time to really make expensive purchases, and I don’t plan to make the purchase, but I’d like to hear people’s thoughts and bits of knowledge on smartwatches, or fitness-tracking watches / wearables.

So what’s your non-US, non-CN (yeah I have more than just a non-US constraint) option? Anything good out there?

I know there might be a revive of the Pebble but it’s not great for fitness tracking, and there’s no plan to go in that direction for now. And it might still be a US product.

Just thought I’d share a good laugh I’ve had today