Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C

• Patch@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Realistically they never would, and wouldn’t have even when the UK was in the EU due to the wider prevalence of other socket types.

  But if you want an answer as to why they should, it’s because it’s an excellent socket design; just about as safe as it’s possible to make a mains electricity connection, and practically indestructible to boot.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The EU plug is designed so that the pins for power become unreachable before they reach the socket and become powered, and ground wire touches the ground pins before that as well.

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  • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll be the contrarian here. I like the US plug - the basic two-prong, non-polarized variant.

    It doesn’t have any safety features, but it sure is compact. It’s easy to make it fold flat even in tiny USB cubes.

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    • Koarnine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They make em just as compact with the UK plug too 😀

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      • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That is well-done, but it’s quite a bit larger than what I linked.

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• jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yer, that won’t be forever. Brexit hasn’t worked out well.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t see what Brexit has to do with this. I’m of the opinion that Brexit was stupid, but it’s getting tiresome that Brexit gets brought up whenever the UK is mentioned, even when completely unrelated.

  The Type-G (UK) plug is a genuinely remarkable design. Really, everywhere should have adopted it.

  Of course, switching all plugs and sockets is ludicrously tedious and costly, so it’s not happening. Especially since most plugs are “good enough” already.

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