• Flax@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    The British standard is still stuck in 1947, where the expected use cases were kettles, washing machines

    People still use kettles and washing machines.

    For your USB power supply, mobile charger, LED table lamp, game console, etc., which doesn’t even have an earth connection, not so much.

    You can get a USB power strip.

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      9 days ago

      And for kettles and washing machines we still have earth connections. Doesn’t make sense to make it mandatory so a 5W charger has to be bigger than the phone.

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      10 days ago

      You can still have sockets that accept grounded appliances like washing machines without ALWAYS requiring a bulky third prong that’s not gonna get used anyways. And about the shutters you can have them open when both prongs are inserted at the same time

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          10 days ago

          Fair point, thing is there just exists a better way of doing small ungrounded plugs like phone chargers, I honestly haven’t used a British phone charger but from what I saw they seem pretty bulky compared to what I have

          • Flax@feddit.uk
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            9 days ago

            Most public places including buses have USB ports. And my mains phone charger folds the earth pin in anyway, so it’s not too bulky.