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Simplest method to check if the power outage is only your house, or the neighborhood, too:
Open the settings of your phone and check for available wifi networks. If it is empty, power is down elsewhere, too.
A LOT of people have networks and systems on UPS’s, so that’ll tell you nothing much really.
I can still watch media on my tablets if the power goes out.
A lot of people do, significantly more don't. So if you see the fucking nerds house is the only one with access points available, you know its a wider power cut.
In a newly built Modern neighborhood the houses are all built to the same basic “set of standards”, that includes an ups or a battery with the solar installation.
A lot of people who say they are “techy” aren’t actually all that techy, they just have a laptop with a server and Linux. It’s pretty dang common to have ups or battery’s when actual modern tech is installed in a house.
Even infills in older neighbourhoods are frequent enough that there should be plenty.
Or try living in the suburbs where you gotta get gas trucked in, you’re gonna want backups.
I live in the UK, mains are reliable enough that very few people have any kind of UPS. I worked in a computer repair shop years ago and it was almost never mentioned. Most people didn't even know what one was. Though I did meet an interesting chap with one on a boat.