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Great, when my power strip dies, so does my TV!

Recently a friend was charging about six different items off of his PC. Not mentioning the poor charging rate. I said to him, hey, maybe you want to get a dedicated charging hub for 40 bucks instead of putting wear and tear on the $250 motherboard and power supply. Just because you can, doesn't always mean you should.




if the wattage is to be believed I bet we'll have no consequences encountered running gaming machines off the display ports of a famously cheaply made generation of tvs with no chassis insulation/earthing, through a cable that'll likely be made lowest-bidder style. Remember those videos of the old apple chargers glowing and sparking when bent?




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