Subj : Re: Failure to communicate
To   : vorlon
From : Adept
Date : Fri Sep 02 2022 14:57:24

 vo> Leave a sign at your front door saying "Turn off computer & UPS" %->

Hah! Yeah, though interferes with my doing various silly things. I've been
turning my computers off more, but I wanted the one on at home because it's
in Germany and I'm not (and basically provides me a VPN of sorts, which is
mostly applicable so that I pay for things in Euros and not in US dollars or
Danish Kroner), because I'm trying out a camera with it, because I'm still
sending various data to it, and because I'll probably be messing with it over
the next week or two.

Perhaps not entirely reasonable, in this time when there are such big energy
issues, but I have my reasons, at least.

 vo> It'll only do that when there is no AC, or it's battery dies! 

Yeah. So, if there's a power outage...

 vo> oh! Mine beep, but they are not ear pearcing! Just loud enough to be

Huh. Yeah, I'm thinking I'll not buy from APC again in the future, if
something quieter is possible. Ideally, for me, it'd beep lightly once, have
a generally-obvious (but not particularly loud) humming sound, and have a
light that flashes, that, if it really bothers me, I can cover it with a few
layers of tape.

 vo> Green light means it's working. %-;

Yeah... But did they really have to make it a large green light, plus a
little line of green that goes around most of the front of the unit?

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