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[–] pipows@lemmy.today 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Americans plugs are very strange

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

And Japanese and Canada and Mexico. Don't forget about our homies.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

European plugs are too big and bulky for our liking.

[–] pipows@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's different than what my French friend brought over. Aren't they usually quite bulkier? The ends on her chargers were large round bulky things, with the 3 narrow prongs sticking off. What she had also matched the European adapters I see sold at the electronics store here.

[–] pipows@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

This one is Brazilian

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s horrible: only one is grounded? A grounded plug can only use half your outlets? Surely to multi-use outpost can also support grounded plugs?

[–] pipows@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

It's because the installation is old, new ones are always grounded

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looks Swiss, but I see down the thread that Brazil uses a similar type.

Either way, the Swiss plug feels to me like what if you took the modest CEE 7/16 Europlug and grafted a ground pin onto that.

[–] systemguy_64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

South Africa also adopted the type N socket