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    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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    Chargie boys.

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    • S [email protected]

      Interesting! For me anything that goes into the socket (Stromnetz) is a Netzteil 😁.

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      Honestly it's a 50:50 for me.
      But if I'd have to decide it's like that

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

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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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            The Dingus. Wall wart. And a whole number of colorful names if I step on one with the prongs up, or roll my ankle on one in the dark!

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            • vinesnfluff@pawb.socialV [email protected]

              "Thingie"

              Or in my language -- "Negocinho".

              A Negocinho and a Cabo ("a thingie and a cable") make a phone charger ("carregador de celular")

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              Ah! A Chingadera!

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              • appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comA [email protected]

                Can I have a Le Chargeur, please 🙂

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                Hmmm... Quel est votre pourcentage?

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                  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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                  Cable head

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                  • S [email protected]

                    Again, I do not care, that's not something that matters in our relationship

                    Edit: I still don't care and now I'm going to start saying it when talking to her because all of your discomfort gives me joy

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                    If you both know what you mean, that’s all that matters because that’s the entire point of language in that context. I don’t think it’s giving anyone discomfort though.

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                      Hmmm... Quel est votre pourcentage?

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                      Ehhhh...Il ne comprend pas? 😛

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                      • S [email protected]

                        USB A/C adapter, or just "ac adapter".

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                        This is my actual answer, also "wall adapter," but I really liked Ginny's "argly bargy cable chargie."

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                          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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                            Last one doesn’t make sense any more, iPhones have been usb-c for a couple years now.

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                            Most people I know still have lightning ones. You don't need a new phone every year

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                              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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                              Squares

                              The wonders of spanish

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                                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 adaptor

                                If context is unclear might add a "mains" or even "C" in the middle as needed.

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                                  I've been forced to start calling these wall dongles by my fiancé, I made sure that in order to accept this terminology that wall warts with the cord attached are now dingle-dongles, and the ones with a cord before the electronics are dangle-dongles.

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                                    Phone charger

                                    But in the case of the ones in the pic, fire hazzard

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                                    My stepkid had one of these exact ones. He pulled it out and the outside sleeve detached.

                                    The internals on these are incredibly unsafe. There's a very high chance you can rip it out, and the tines will remain plugged in, with nothing to grab onto to remove them. The tines themselves are only pinched internally by a weak little bit of metal to connect to the rest of it, not even soldered.

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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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                                      I refuse any moniker for these besides bricks

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                                      • N [email protected]

                                        Power Adapter is too broad.

                                        If someone asked me for one I wouldn't know what they wanted. It could be an international adapter, or a DC power supply, or one of these things.

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                                        That's totally fair, and I agree. People in my circles say power adapter or wall charger, or hell actually enough people also say HEY. I need a phone charger. Understood. 🤙🤙🤙

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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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