Also while I am on the subject of brand loyalty, I am now shopping around for a (~450W) entertainment center UPS to replace our probably-no-longer-helping-with-surges ~10yo just-a-surge-protector.
We are an APC house but I see that their most recent midrange model is trying to pull some “replace battery? no! replace entire unit!” BS, even tho they seem to have half-assedly walked it back some.
So I will be at least /considering/ CyberPower too, this time.
@bitprophet I wound up with a CyberPower UPS for my home computer setup and it's been okay. If it matters, you can talk to it from Linux and even dump information into your local Prometheus setup.
@cks I will have a local Prometheus setup as soon as I get off my ass re: inventing a personalized build/deploy regime based on NixOS.
So, 2025 maybe.
Re: UPS: we're gonna get another APC, the CyberPower units all either don't fit well in/around our entertainment center, or have poor 'number of BB-vs-surge-only outlets’ ratio. Alas.
In the end, we went with APC, even the model that they fucked with, since nothing else meets our particular needs and is available in under a few weeks' time.
Be ironic if we go to replace the battery someday and find that the “unscrew bottom, replace battery” procedure is /actually easier/ than contorting the leads within the tiny battery compartment in the older models!
@bitprophet Are they still mostly lead-acid UPSs at the consumer level? Mine's getting a bit long in the tooth but I'd only upgrade right now if I got a decent capacity bump...
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