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  • S [email protected]

    No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s

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    Fire hazard

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    • S [email protected]

      No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s

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      uhhh 'do you have a charger butt?' or 'hey, you got a buttplug? [while holding up my phone and shaking it] '

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      • O [email protected]

        Power brick, power adapter, or USB charger are what come to mind for me.

        I gotta say I disagree heavily with your fiancee on dongles. IMO dongles are adapters for data of some kind, not just power from the wall. But to each their own I guess.

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        Yea, dongle is just objectively wrong.

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        • S [email protected]

          No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s

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          This is a wall plugged charger with USB A -> please stop calling it dongle. I am sure we can at least agree, that dongle is factually wrong.

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          • S [email protected]

            In England, we call those argy-bargy-cable-chargies.

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            mfw Americans call electro-rope "power cables"

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            • S [email protected]

              No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s

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              Cargador (Charger)

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              • asidonhopo@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                I refuse any moniker for these besides bricks

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                It's only a brick if it's separated from both the outlet and the device it's powering by cables. Fight me.

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                • spacecowboy@lemmy.caS [email protected]

                  YF-W36-2U

                  Though sometimes like to be more specific and say something like "hey can you grab the blue YF-W36-2U for me?"

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                  "Eh, it's really more of a periwinkle."

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                  • S [email protected]

                    No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s

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                    wall wart

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                    • asidonhopo@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                      I refuse any moniker for these besides bricks

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                      Isn't that in itself a moniker?

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                        wall wart

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                        I recently got odd looks for saying exactly this. I swear that’s what everyone where I live (Ohio, USA) USED to call them.

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                        • S [email protected]

                          No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s

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                          USB charger brick.

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                          • R [email protected]

                            I recently got odd looks for saying exactly this. I swear that’s what everyone where I live (Ohio, USA) USED to call them.

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                            Wall warts are large transformer blocks that don't have an AC cable but rather have an integrated plug. Yes this is a transformer that plugs straight into the wall, but it's tiny. It's at most a wall pimple.

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                            • jackbydev@programming.devJ [email protected]

                              Power bricks or USB bricks. A dongle is an adapter, so it has some sort of thing on each side (besides a power plug lol).

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                              Dongles are historically not adapters but rather self contained devices that plug directly into another device. Often providing no function except to be detectable.

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                              • jerkface@lemmy.caJ [email protected]

                                Wall warts are large transformer blocks that don't have an AC cable but rather have an integrated plug. Yes this is a transformer that plugs straight into the wall, but it's tiny. It's at most a wall pimple.

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                                wall pimple it is then

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                                • S [email protected]

                                  No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s

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                                  USB charger.

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                                  • rmuk@feddit.ukR [email protected]

                                    It's only a brick if it's separated from both the outlet and the device it's powering by cables. Fight me.

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                                    🤔 you know I think you might be right. I'm going to continue calling it a brick it out of spite.

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                                    • asidonhopo@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                                      🤔 you know I think you might be right. I'm going to continue calling it a brick it out of spite.

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                                      Spite is one hell of a motivator. Being hunted by hyenas is another. There's probably others, too.

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                                      • S [email protected]

                                        No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s

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                                        Charging brick, or power adapter.

                                        I can't think of a better term for these.

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                                        • whynotsquirrel@sh.itjust.worksW [email protected]

                                          What?! Could you send a picture, I really don't see the point of earthing a USB charger?

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                                          ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/533843fa-e229-42c6-a23b-caafcfcd77ff.jpeg

                                          That’s the plug. I should have explained …the white pin nearest the camera is the earth pin. In this case it’s plastic as as you pointed out, it’s unnecessary. It’s still needed though to open the slots for the live and neutral pins.

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