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> Depends. I'm in a rural area, and I get 5-second power cuts every couple of months. It's the main reason I have a UPS under my computer desk.

This. Can't put the coffee maker on an UPS though. Or not on a cost effective UPS.

> So your answer is probably that demand for that feature is far from universal, and a coffee machine is much lower stakes than for example an alarm clock.

Actually for the alarm clock i'm just going to be late. Not having coffee hurts much more!




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