On my old phone I had an issue with the proximity sensor and front facing camera. This led me to holding my phone backwards to take photos and being unable to hang up phone calls.
I think I put up with this for a year and a half.
I did end up figuring out the issue with the proximity sensor but opening up my phone to reconnect the camera module was too much effort for me.
Not getting a UPS for my server. Even though I’m pretty sure one of my VMs got corrupted (it won’t boot in ESXi anymore) after the server shutdown during a brownout several months back. I’ve had a server at home for like 4yrs now. Have experienced multiple brownouts. Still don’t have a UPS, even though I always look for one.
Grab a Pyle power conditioner off of Amazon. It’ll run you 100 bucks, but you get the benefit of AVR which is more important imo than being able to run while the power is out.
So this is instead of the UPS, rather than in addition to?
I’m looking at one now and I’m assuming it’s like a big surge protector type thing. Do UPS have these built in?
So ups have AVR (automatic voltage regulation), that is a big part of the selling point. The power that they output is “clean”. One of these is basically AVR without the battery.
It’s not quite as good as a good ups+AVR, but it’s a fuckload cheaper and you don’t have to replace the batteries every 6 months.
I can’t imagine running a server without a UPS unless you only use it for experimental stuff…
It is a homelab, so it’s all basically experimental. I don’t really need any of this.
But yes, I should absolutely just buy a UPS =x