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Upgrade your two prong outlet with a GFCI outlet. While a GFCI will not protect your electronics from power surges, it will protect you from electrocution and short circuits. If you replace your ungrounded, two prong outlet with a GFCI, you must label it with “No Equipment Ground.” You can then plug in a UPS to provide clean and constant AC power to your expensive electronics.

Know how your plugs are wired, though. If you have several plugs wired in series and have a GFCI plug that has been tripped at the beginning of the series, the power will be out for the rest until you reset the first GFCI plug that was tripped.

Be warned, rant about how insane the US is incoming. tl;dr: We have over 5+ plug types in common use, they're all horribly unsafe, and our federal government does nothing.

It's at least partly a safety thing. Remember, standard US plugs look like this. Plus the RCD is actually on the first outlet* in a chain instead of in the break panel. That can and often is right next to the sink in a bathroom.

Also, these are all US 240V outlets. Most of these are in common use today, and there is a reason why larger appliances (stoves / dryers) in the US require the cord to be purchased separately.

Oh, and while there is a "National Electric Code", that's actually something put out by a "non proffit", not the government. People have to pay to read it. Making matters worse, local (not federal) governments adopt it with amendments. Yes, that's right, in the US you actually have to pay to know what the building laws are, and even then they vary by where you live.

Going beyond all of that, things like motors can't be easily changed, and there is an abundance of 120V motors in the US.

* By the way that T is because we use this for 120V 20A circuits.