I was going to say I’m surprised you don’t have a small genny Paul, just for contingencies. But I guess the local internet and the mobile relay depend on the island’s power, so while your own supply would stop your freezer defrosting you’d still need a sat phone to get a message to the outside world (OK, semaphore would work, but not for contributing to the lovely cricket thread).
VB
^ this
I’ve missed a trick actually. I should have charged my UPS as it could have powered the TV and Sky box for several hours.
I would also have thought that something like a Tesla Powerwall would be useful up your way.
What is that?
The Gateway box can also isolate your house from the mains if there is a power cut (required so that power isn’t fed back down the line in order to not electrocute people doing maintenance if you have solar microgeneration).
Ah, right.
Tbh, it’s only the TV (when there’s live sport on) and internet that is an issue. I have two camping gas powered hobs for cooking and plenty of oil lamps and candles for light. It’s not that regular that it warrants such an investment.
Besides, it would only work effectively in the Summer when it isn’t an issue. In Winter (when it may be of some benefit) I suspect it wouldn’t get sufficient charge to be effective.
It can be charged from the mains to be a backup supply as well as storing from microgen, but then a bit of indoor camping seems to be part of the island lifestyle…
On the few occasions it is required, you’re right. Nobody here seems to get very uptight about it*
*except me when there’s a Test Match about to start 
This is one of the limits of PV* in countries like the UK, where the summers are fine but the winters can be cold. It works much better in places where the big demand is for powering summer air-con.
VB
*Strictly, domestic PV without a decent feed-in tariff.
Yeah, much demand for that here.
Judge for yourself at the bake off, next summer (hopefully you can make it)
I’m looking forward to it ! I’ll dress up warm.
VB
tossers at Apple - is this for real?
The Microsoft version will have ctrl-alt-del buttons to reboot it every so often when it BSODs. 
when the Apple one expires it’ll take all your money to renew!
I dont rem the last time I had a BSOD - certainly never with Win10
I’d fucking love it if my credit card bill BSOD’d
I had one last week. (Video driver related as usual)
They’re certainly a lot rarer now, but still happen.
It’s only taken them 20 years to get close to the kind of stability UNIX used to do in the 70s.
indeed the good old days when everything was simpler
$ find . -type f -exec grep -il ‘foo’ {} ;
MS or third party?
on an open OS, where 1000s of third parties put all sorts of random shit in their hw/fw/sw…unlike Apple which has fixed hw, few third parties to cope with, and a controlled OS environment
you can tell the ‘youngsters’ now - if you talk about bar and foo they just look at you blankly… no culture