no confidence in many people using "recent activity"
I'll second you on that, and justified in my opinion - If people respond to post I'm not concerned 'who' replied before the thread gets viewed, that's a 'name-dropper' aspect spoiler in using it for this user, some folks just like seeing their name in print multiple times I guess.
Capacitors failing? There are whole annual productions worth of PC Mainboards that are known to have capacitors with a very short service life that got assembled and distributed anyway - it's the slippery slope of gambling on warranty repair, profiting on field service or a flat rate rebuild once they've been in extended service. Maybe even pushed as far as weekend junkets or bundle of cash for the specification engineer to get a low quality line of capacitors in production (and out of the factory supply chain).
Anyway - good going on getting the sparks back in their cages!