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Note to self: Get around to wiring my UPS onto my management network for monitoring and graceful shutdown of non-essential stuff.

In no particular order:

• Half Life
• Factorio
• Kerbal Space Program
• Quake
• Minecraft
• Rollercoaster Tycoon

Yes, that’s 6. Sue me.

Honorable mention: Baldur 3, Dwarf Fortress, Mario 3, Deus Ex, Day of the Tentacle

When I need to run something that I can’t or won’t run at home, I usually spin up a machine at Hetzner. Cheap, reliable, and setup is fast. The server auction can give you a pretty nice hardware stack at a low cost, and you can cancel at any time.

However, the cases were I use hosting providers are becoming fewer and fewer, as I’m in the final stages of rebuilding my “homelab” the way I want it. If only those UPS batteries could arrive soon…

Anything made to be run from battery can work fine without one. Worst case scenario requires you to spoof some I²C communication to properly emulate a battery, but most devices and batteries are far dumber than that. DC is DC, and sometimes you just need to graft something on top for the other pins.

Source: My old laptops charging circuit failed, so I soldered the charger onto the battery pins instead. Then I replaced the actual battery with an Adafruit Itsybitsy 32u4 (because that what I happened to have available) that emulated the battery status of “Charging, nothing to see here, move along” and sent it via I²C

• No
• Manual only
• Because I’m old and crusty, and always rawdogged service setups. I’m sure containers are nice and all, I just never got around to learning them properly.