Hemingway what kind of damage/pi you think it would cause?
FWIW back in '77 my parents bought a house that was built in '48. The living room had 5 outlets, 3 of them controlled by a standard dimmer switch. They never used the dimmer but they did have their TV and stereo plugged into the receptacles that were controlled by it.
Eventually the dimmer was replaced by a standard wall switch, the kind that make the loud "click" when turned on and off, sort of like a circuit breaker does.
