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what you can do without an electrician to minimize risk 

@owashii@plush.city i'm sorry to make you worry, but i just don't want it to go unaddressed

what you can do without an electrician is: minimize the load on the circuit you suspect is bad, check the voltage at the outlet, then do what you normally do and check if the voltage sags significantly

if it does (whether constantly or intermittently), it's likely there's a problem. if there is a problem and you can't call an electrician to fix it, stop using that circuit as much as possible. Move the computer and any other large loads onto another circuit that doesn't show the same problem. If you can get everything off that circuit and just turn off the breaker to it, that would be best, but just minimizing the load should be enough to help a lot

If it doesn't, then there probably isn't a problem and I got worried over nothing, sorry about that. might still want to get an electrician in when you can
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