Computer just switched off at random, for the second time today. This time, it happened simultaneous with a power flux event (the air conditioner halting).

Maybe I need a UPS. :(

Ha ha heehhhh after several days of no problems my computer just shut off at random while I was sitting at it using it, and then less than five minutes later, did it again. Is there a way to get Windows to tell me, after a restart, why the hell it just restarted

Like I understand it might not know why it shuts down but surely if it restarts there's somewhere a record of why

Ah… thanks Windows. Thanks for clearing that up

It's happening now at times it wasn't happening before

I eventually learned to get the data from the "real" event viewer instead of the fisher price baby and this is all it says.

Two references to "Power". I don't know if that means the problem is with the power, or if that's Windows' way of saying "I don't know?".

I did get a core temp log when the computer died last night. The CPU temperature was not high at all at the moment of the reset.

I am terrified of a near future where I spend hundreds of dollars on a UPS, it takes up a bunch of space under my desk, and it turns out not to solve the problem

Every time I buy an Apple computer I eventually have to replace it even though it works and I don't want to replace it, because of planned obsolescence, and every time I buy a non-Apple computer it eventually just breaks

The scariest possible thing that could happen in the next few months is I buy a new mac because Apple forces you to buy a mac to develop for the Vision, then my Windows machine craps out totally and I'm having to use a Macintosh as my daily driver

@mcc I dunno… I’ll give Apple crap for a lot of things, but not planned obsolescence. They support phones “forever” in Android terms, and they support older desktop machines than MS now too…
@slembcke It is possible I am experiencing this more with OS versions than with devices. Not so sure about the phone thing tho D:

@mcc I still use my iPhone SE from 2016, and the most recent update was ~2 weeks ago. In a month it will be seven years old. >_>

The iPad 2 I still sometimes use for reading in bed got updates until 2019. 8 years!