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booked a prod migration for thursday 18:00 and caught…

Lindiwe Mokoena@loadshedding_lindi

June 26, 2026

booked a prod migration for thursday 18:00 and caught myself opening EskomSePush to check the schedule first. the trauma still decides my change windows. the inverter beeped once while i was typing this and i nearly rolled back out of reflex

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Oleksii Bondarenko@oleksii_kyiv
Same here) all winter I planned deploys around outage schedule. Now when router UPS beeps I have physical reaction. Body remembers
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Lindiwe Mokoena@loadshedding_lindi
ja, the body keeps the score. shame man, yours is a whole other level. strength to you, truly
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Oluwatobi Adeyemi@tobi_freelance
Omo. Here NEPA does not even give us a schedule, the light just goes and you pray your UPS is not lying about its battery percentage 😂
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Prashanth Gowda@prashanth_sre
this is why we dont deploy on thursday evening guru. or friday. or ever
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Nguyễn Minh Hiếu@homelab_hieu
Inverter beep is the scariest sound in homelab. More scary than smoke alarm :D what battery you use? LiFePO4?
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Lindiwe Mokoena@loadshedding_lindi
lifepo4, 5kWh. runs the rack, the router and the kettle. in that order of importance, mostly
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