Well, this is going to sound very weird for a person living in a developed country... but the reality is, I am out of power (electrical) for almost a week. 😱
That's right... 😔 That means all my stuff I had running from home is currently stopped, so really sorry if you were using it and can't while this situation is not resolved.
(https://stats.uptimerobot.com/YnXK7HDQzP)
I am not going to go through life details, as I consider them private, but lets say, its not my fault, and the situation might as well end being just "nature" but it can for sure become very technical (which is what is making things take time to resolve) to the point that complicates the process of making decisions and the result is... the end user is the one that ends up paying the price.
Lessons Learned (so far)
Through out these, I (re)learned some things in life are not worth shortcuts, as they actually bite us in the back later on in the future. But the most important lesson in life, is to actually "be prepared", as much as you can to things you can't control.
In my case here, this circles around having ways to sustain things that require electricity, but in my mind a broader reasoning emerged when thinking on all of this and having to both deal with family comfort and concept of "being prepared".
The good outcomes
Since I have to beef up on "electrical" sources stuff, this means I will be better preparing for when I am back on the power grid. To what extent? I don't know yet, but so far the first investment is quite WOW!!!
Priorities ⚔️
As of now, I can say, that I would be able to bring all my gear up again, but unfortunately I have other life priorities and I can't sustain everything electrically yet. So, this means, I might be facing another week with all my gear down.
Next HPUD / PowerUp Giveaway 🤔
Unfortunately this all clashed my plans a bit, and at this point I am unsure of what I will be able to come up with. I might just decide to run the old (current version) with 5 winners and keep it simple, but it all depends on availability of my gear.
I will do my best to come back to life, once I can, but in the meantime I can't do much.
I am still around! 😎
Not going anywhere (only for charging the phone 😂), just a hiccup and some extra time to regroup my ideas/plans (even if I actually have less time for that than you may think LOL). Anyhow...
Hope you all continue to have a blast... I am surely going through a hell of a big one! 💥
Cheers, keep holding!!! Strong... 💪
That sucks mate, time to look into solar charging into some big batteries and build an off grid setup.
I am… doing some investment while it makes sense. But this crap is damn expensive… super duper mega amazing 🤩 but fricking damn expensive…
Hey! Almost a week without power? Well I know you will feel bad about that but we are used to it in Nigeria. In fact I used personal installed solar to power my house. In any case, the lessons you brought out of it is very instructive. Thank you for sharing. Let's be hearing more from you. Lol😂😍
Yeah, unfortunately, people miss-judge the "importance" of electricity. Thanks for the words.
Welcome back!
Ish.. not yet fully back. Still off the grid…
But my new power bank is awesome 🤩
Darn, 1 (or even 2!) week without electricity sounds like a pain in the a... ehm, well, in that place 😅
Hope you can recover soon from it and be back up and running as usual :)
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Eventually, first time in life!
Damn! One week out of power is too!
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And by the looks of it, it can topple up to two. Until I see the repairs starting, I am very pessimistic.
There has been a network outage in this my part of Africa. When you mentioned outage, I thought you were in this side of Africa. It's always a bummer.
I wish it would be just an outage… 🤣
So it's probably worse than that.
When it affects everyone, it usually gets sorted quickly. But in this case only affects me... for now. Once repairs start, there is danger of things getting worse (for everyone). And if that happens, then it will probably get sorted quickly.
guessing your gonna be buying a generator for emeregencys now eh :D
I am using clean energy now 😇 a generator is for less than 24h thing.
solar panels or wind energy, OR BOTH :D
Solar for now… 😎
Back up up is very important otherwise we lose our personal data and stuff like that for life and we look forward to your post.
Nahh, nothing gets lost. This is why decentralisation is the future.
Yeah you are right.
Good enough you are finding a way around it. Sometimes we just have to let things take their rightful place and avoid taking short cuts
I wish when people would build houses, thought of that. 😜
The solution, double backup for everything.
Thats how I think on IT businesses 😅
Hello friend, @forykw. It's a good lesson you learnt there. And I'm learning from it too. Something in life should be allowed to take their nature course. Taking short cuts might be harmful.🥰
I am intrigued… your account is 4 years old, but your first post is 5 month old…
What’s the story behind it 🥹
Ps: thanks for the words
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One of the lessons I learnt also is they fact that life does not require shortcuts. I learn it the hard way last year
Glad to see you back dear friend
Ish back… I have been playing around with games but just not enough bandwidth to do other stuff.
Sometimes it can really be demanding trying to balance everything together. Glad to see that you are back 😊
A great cold shower helps sometimes… but these days have been super creative 😄
Hello @forkyw.
We had to remove your upvotes on this scam account.
Ok checked things now. Thanks.
humm, was the account hacked? I knew that eventually I would start attracting some smart heads.
Will have a better look later.
There is a list of accounts that is circulating that is used to hit with comments on posts which are authored by lucrative comment upvoters. The farmers focus their comments on these authors so they can receive guaranteed upvotes on comments.
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The accounts from this group all have a history of other abuses like plagiarism (writing, art), AI fraud, etc.
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Yeah, I saw that yesterday. I was wondering why I had those two on my giveaway without even entering it. Both at the same time. Would not make sense if they were separate accounts (or at least unlikely).
Also, the language is very similar between the accounts. A bit sad that people still don't understand the spirit of this community.