• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      As a teenager I experienced a power outage while I was updating my bios.

      Guess what happened?

      I’m still bitter about it.

      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        You can negate that risk by getting a UPS. You should get a UPS in any case imo since even a shitty one lets you at least save your work and shutdown properly if your electricity drops.

    • Raxiel@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I updated mine a couple of weeks ago. I was actually really anxious as It went through the process, but it worked fine, at first…
      Then I found out Microsoft considered it a new computer and deactivated windows. (And that’s when I found out they deleted upgrade licences from windows 7 & 8 back in September)