[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.