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What is the best style electrical outlet? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago by JusticeForPorygon to c/[email protected]

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[–] z00s 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

UK are safest

Until you step on a plug...

You thought Lego was bad on bare feet? Hoo boy

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

At least the UK one is blunt. I'm trying, without success, to find a picture of the old style telephone (and my modem) connectors we had here in Norway. Imagine the UK power plug, but the pins are pointy. I've drawn blood stepping on these. I would run a marathon on Lego to avoid stepping on one of those again. Luckily they were gradually replaced by wallmounted RJ11 (or RJ45 if you had ISDN) during the 90's.

EDIT: Found it.

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Stepping on one feels like getting shanked under your foot by Poseidon and his trident.

[–] z00s 13 points 10 months ago

Oh dude that's medieval lol

[–] cashews_best_nut 5 points 10 months ago

Holy shit that's just sadistic!!

[–] Carighan 3 points 10 months ago

I've seen plenty UK plugs where the ground plug has a weird wedge shape to it.

Like a bored knife designed was angry they're designing plugs now...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The ’90s was also the era of Mortal Kombat, so at least it makes sense in its historical context

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

is that PoE adapter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

No, it's just an adapter to get the rj11 to connect to the wall socket that most houses built before 1990 had for their phones here.

[–] froh42 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Plugs are for beginners. I once managd to step on a Motorola 68020 processor which embedded its pins intomy foot and drew blood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68020

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Makes your house very safe from burglars!