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by tragictrash 1411 days ago
The ground is there to protect humans against an electrical fault by shunting enough current to trip the breaker and shut off the power.

If you feel an electric shock from touching the MacBook while plugged in, there's a fault in your electric system. You need to have a professional electrician come out and look at it, immediately. Delaying or not doing so is waiting for a disaster to happen. You may now be liable too, because you know there's a problem and didn't fix it.

Why? No idea, but get your shit fixed before someone gets hurt.

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> If you feel an electric shock from touching the MacBook while plugged in, there's a fault in your electric system.

It means isolation on the charger is faulty.

A properly working modern charger should not have any galvanic connection to the grid.

The isolation transformer is likelly to be defective.