And yet again I am reminded the hard way that I should have a UPS (My money's on "rat/squirrel" or "excavator"). Unfortunately the only UPSes big enough to run my desktop *won't plug into anything in my apartment* because the builders were complete cheapasses and ran 15A circuits.
And for the mandatory 20A circuits in the kitchen? 15A outlets "because fuck you that's why."
My only option for a UPS is one that either does some hinky shit to charge from a separate circuit than the load is on, or stringing a big fat 10-gauge extension cord across my shoebox from the kitchen after bodging a 5-15 make-a-cord on the wall end. (In the US all modern 15A outlets are really 20As with a different faceplate, so this is perfectly *safe* to do, if not quite "up to code"...)
(I *somewhat* miss my parents' basement, because the ceiling is unfinished I was able to run a big fat 20A circuit to the rack for the UPS, with room to upgrade to a 240v-30 feed for the fatass rackmount models if needed)
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