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Subject: Re: OT: UPS for FreeBSD
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I've always found it amazingly absurd that you use a UPS (a bank of
batteries charged by AC->DC conversion), invert it back to AC, which gets
converted to DC for the motherboard and peripherals.

But that's just me, probably.