Simplest method to check if the power outage is only your house, or the neighborhood, too:
Open the settings of your phone and check for available wifi networks. If it is empty, power is down elsewhere, too.
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door bells here are just literal bells mounted to the door. modern problems require modern solutions.
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My brother once asked why the new hoover (vacuum cleaner) had a light on it and was told "so you can still see what you're hoovering in a powercut"
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My door bell is battery powered, I would have assumed the neighbors would be too.
This wasn't as bone headed of a move as you might think.
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I hate that I did this exact thing last year.
I was going to say just look out the window and see if the lights in the neighborhood are on, but then I remembered that sometimes blackouts happened during the day. I would feel stupid if 99% of blackouts near me happened in the evening or night.
Coding recently and wanted to change the title of the window to cwd.. debugging why it didn't change from the project name to the name of the folder. Of the project. That I was working on. Yeah.
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