xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m not sure I fully get the joke, considering the literal existence of outlets like this.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think Randal would enjoy my plug adapter

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  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ugh, what a shameless plug

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    • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You try spending your whole life getting penetrated by various foreign objects and not feeling shame

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This also makes me wonder why the xkcd one was laid out like that. Is the xkcd one better/safer, or was it done that way to look more insane.

    On yours, the Canada/US and UK layouts overlap, while in the xkcd one they’re opposite to each other.

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    • RandomStickman@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      or was it done that way to look more insane.

      Yeah I think that's it lol

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think it’s because mine doesn’t have Schuko (type f) support … probably because it’s real? And maybe because his adaptation uses “Euro”/A combination, wheras mine uses vertical axes for the “euro” plug.

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• gabelstapler@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As an engineer, thinking of designing the metal connectors needed for this, this gives me nightmares.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Simple, just use a metal mesh in each hole. Make sure it’s a really thin mesh too, like practically steel wool. Pushing 15 amps through steel wool has never caused anyone any problems ever.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Good news, you can just buy them from China at pennies :D

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Im not an electrician in any way shape or form, so I dont know if my slightly panicky sweaty-behind-the-knees reaction to this is appropriate, but it scares me

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    lemmy.world/post/40737505/21214176

    You might also enjoy my plug :)

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Ok bro. You had already posted this.

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They might also enjoy your electrical adapter.

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• ultrahamster64@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That lowkey looks like christmas tree

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• wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  /stares in unibrow

  media.tenor.com/…/electro-boom-eyebrows.gif

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  • SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Psh tp-p-p Psh tp-p-p Psh-Psh

    Psh tp-p-p Psh tp-p-p Psh-Psh

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• dadarobot@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  biblicaly accurate outlet

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have faith that we will eventually standardize plugs internationally. Assuming we avert the apocalypse, that is.

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  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We can’t agree which one is best. When Tom Scott proclaimed his home plug to be the best I scoffed. I thought my own home plug is better. But in reality I think they all suck in their own way, every single one of them.

    I think a new more research driven approach like the USB-C design would be better, something that protects your fingers, is easier to locate when behind furniture or in the dark, works in more than a single position, is not going to stab you if you leave it on the floor, does not get stuck in the socket, I think it might even be possible to add a fuse without making it larger than a typical phone charger, but to be honest, the smaller the better. One can only dream.

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    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The trouble is of course the huge legacy of all the existing sockets you’d have to replace, never mind the pure unpopularity with the public of switching standards.

      Possibly the most successful attempt at convergence so far has been the Europlug, but only because it’s a weird compromise. Did you know the europlug prongs aren’t actually parallel? They angle slightly and have a little flex, so they can be accepted in multiple European countries’ sockets that actually have slightly different dimensions! It’s a cool design, but you wouldn’t intentionally design it that way if you had the opportunity to standardise the world from scratch.

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    • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Don’t know where all that research driven approach led us… USB-A worked perfectly, nobody ever had a problem with it; except having to turn it around a couple times to figure out how to plug it (which could be solved with a coloured dot on plug and cable). USB-C had the advantage of being a little bit smaller, but it sucks in any other aspect. While I might have broken a couple USB-A cables and plugs in my life, I do not expect an USB-C cable to last much longer than one year.

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Electricians hate this one weird trick

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• Hegar@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wooo! IEC type I! Shoutout to the greatest!

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