Gamble during a thunderstorm?

Tonight I think it will rain and there will be thunderstorms. I actually wanted to play with my laptop. But my mother said I should put it off for tomorrow. Why actually? Is it so bad to gamble in a thunderstorm?

Or should I rather gamble tomorrow?

There's n fuse box.

FI jumps out and is good.

We have 2020 :)

Well. I once had that it made BUMM outside and then my router was gone. If the lightning strikes power lines, there can be short overvoltages, which can damage sensitive electronic devices.

What does FI mean?

How does an FI switch work? If a certain residual current is exceeded, the residual current circuit breaker disconnects the monitored circuit, i.e. All conductors (excluding the protective conductor) from the rest of the network… The RCD can compare the amount of current flowing back and forth.

I see.

Yes, but it can just as well land an airplane on the house

Residual current circuit breaker.

And what does that have to do with my answer or the question?

What a nonsense! So you don't know anything at all, do you? The "FI" (RCD) is used for personal protection in the case of defective devices, lightning protection is a completely different league. In my professional career I saw buildings where the cables literally "exploded" out of the wall, because your 40A / 30mA FI helps you a lot.

Learned something again.

You help wherever you can.

It is best to charge the laptop beforehand and then run it on the battery.

Yes, it is 2020. In the meantime, it is even mandatory to install surge protection in new buildings. So far, very few houses have it. And there's no obligation to retrofit.

However, it must also be permanently installed in the electrical installation.

"Your" FI (RCD) has absolutely nothing to do with it - it protects 0.0% from overvoltage damage!

May trigger after a lightning strike - but by then all electronic devices have already been smoked.

And we don't even need to discuss the "fuses". ^^

If the laptop is not connected to the network, not much can actually happen.

Cheese, the fi only triggers in the event of an earth fault and fuses in the event of an overload or short circuit. If a lightning strikes, it takes things for breakfast. Or do you think seriously a few mm distance is of interest to those who have been through the air for tens of kilometers

You can, it is not forbidden, in any case it is safer to get the plug out