[midoridensha]

Don't blame the power quality. The power is fine. Is your PC/laptop power supply burning out regularly? Your monitors or TV? Anything else in your home? No.

If something fails early because of "poor quality" power, that just means it wasn't engineered properly. Modern switch-mode power supplies can work with an astounding range of input voltage.

[superkuh]

Normally you'd be right saying this to any random person on the internet. But my power really is bad in this apartment. I literally have a room where all the outlets read 80v peak to peak due to, I assume, a loose neutral. The halogens handle it fine but it kills anything with a circuit board eventually.

Most people in highly developed countries don't have this problem so I'm an exception there. But most people in the world don't live in highly developed areas.