#Power outlet
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Hi, maybe it is just me, but if I was able to google correctly, it seems that you have ungrounded power outlet.
That is for sure not a good choice to connect your PSU/PC into as I know.
I can't see the others and what is exactly connected.
But please ask about those, just to be sure.
Wym ungrounded power outlet?
Meaning your outlet has very high risk potential to ignite something near there, plugging your PC into it and something happens to spark, will not end well
Electrical fires are at a all time high with that outlet like that
How can you tell?
Well, how I was able to tell 🤔
1 - outlet looks quite old, due to its color maybe, at least for me, but also
2 - power outlet is at quite low height compared to floor, where at some certain point in the past, standards changed because of small children walking on all 4, hence minimum power outlet height is 60 cm now (more or less) so those kids can't reach it anymore, sth like that 🤔
3 - that also means it is possible that HexMyth is in some old building/house, meaning that he maybe has old electrical wires, which especially isn't good with power outlet which doesn't have grounding.
Tl;dr looked old, googled it, and it seems it is ungrounded. 😁
sounds like it'd probably be best to have an electrician look at it at some point
Grounding is the main issue here.
Old wires not that much, their "resistance" is higher and that can make you pay a lot more on your electrical bill since they are drawing more power for your appliances...