aemeijers wrote:

Are the local big-boxes open? If so, go buy a cheap UPS unit, and put
that between your PC and your power, to clean it up at least a little.

A cheap bigbox class UPS is next to worthless for such duty. A decent
UPS that will work well really isn't much more.

This isn't a table saw- you are not only putting the PC at risk if a
power glitch happens, you are putting your data at risk, like if you
happen to be in the middle of a disk write when it all goes dark or
spikes. Laptops are better this way- they have some power filtering
built in. If the big-boxes are closed, inverter from battery, with no
running engine involved, is the safest. When picture starts flickering,
save your work and shut down. My agency has lost a lot of PCs and other
computer equipment, over in the sandbox, due to running them off dirty
generator power.

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