Simplest method to check if the power outage is only your house, or the neighborhood, too:
Open the settings of your phone and check for available wifi networks. If it is empty, power is down elsewhere, too.
My country actually has a map that shows current outages. It’s usually my street, but once I saw entire city go dark.
A LOT of people have networks and systems on UPS’s, so that’ll tell you nothing much really.
I can still watch media on my tablets if the power goes out.
I wouldn’t say a lot, I’ve never met anyone else with an UPS, even in my most techy circles
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Weird, with solar being so easy to install, most people I know want a way to store it.
Where do you live that this isn’t the case?
I leave near a historical monument so I cannot install solar panels, nor can almost the whole village… Otherwise in France it seems pretty easy to do so, but I think most of the time people sell the energy to the grid instead of trying to store it.
Nor have I. Personally I have several UPS’s because I work in tech and have learned why they are useful. But I don’t know anyone else, even my techy friends that have hem.
It’s common with stuff like balcony solar systems so you have a way to store some power easily.
There’s different levels and stages of being “techy”. Just having a passion for computers and data is only one. Most of my techy friends are into solar as well.
door bells here are just literal bells mounted to the door. modern problems require modern solutions.
My door bell is battery powered, I would have assumed the neighbors would be too.
This wasn’t as bone headed of a move as you might think.
I hate mine. The battery dies way too fast.
Mine lasts for long enough that I can’t remember the last time I changed the battery, I should probably check it.
My brother once asked why the new hoover (vacuum cleaner) had a light on it and was told “so you can still see what you’re hoovering in a powercut”
Also displays all the dog hair you thought you just picked up
