NEVER cheap out on these. Get you a good surge protector, it can save your life and home.
Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration
Submitted 2 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It’s a power strip not a surge protector.
reddig33@lemmy.world 29 minutes ago
It should still be properly grounded.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
That’s not generally how they are sold. A power strip looks like this. A surge protector is grounded.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The amount of people I need to explain this to is the mildly infuriating part.
One time when packing up after a LAN party, a friend of mine grabbed my surge protector instead of his power strip. A couple days later I was like “Hey we swapped some gear by mistake. I think you took my surge protector and I have your power strip” and he was was like “Oh well I already set my computer back up at home, so maybe we just keep them because it’s the same thing”
Nah, my dude. Mine is an expensive surge protector that I put my expensive computer equipment on. Yours is a $10 power strip from the bargain bin at Home Depot and I would never plug things I care about into it.
He did swap back with me but acted like it was such a bother.
M137@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
I recommend IKEA for anything like this on the cheaper end.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Amazon, temu, wish etc. are all complicit.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 minutes ago
My apartment has fucked wiring, its killed things through decent surge protectors.
At this point all of my computers that I run daily are on APC UPS’s.
Good luck nuking shit through one of those.