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

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                            mfw Americans call electro-rope "power cables"

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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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                              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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                                    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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