these things are glorified power switches. They contain heatsinks, capacitors and transformers, and somehow this is all for the better.
Never mind all the wonderful power supplies that exist in your components.
Unless you live in apartment building where everybody likes to dry their hair all the time and has old refrigerators, you really really really don’t need this thing.
It seems to be a fad where everyone feels they need it.
The real noise problems are the damn landscapers and the leaf blower’s surrounding you from all your neighbors. When the hell are they gonna solve this landscaper noise problem, it’s getting worse, they don’t use mufflers on their machines. Absolutely horrifying.