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Do you like a tactile click? Are you a sucker for screws? Or something you can put in any direction? Maybe it's yours or another country's power plugs?

This is sounding more sexual than I intended I think

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[โ€“] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

The fuse thing comes from history but is still good because then each device is fused appropriately for its load. Get a short on a 3A circuit - fail nice and quickly. If you just rely on house wiring your breaker need to be the maximum possible load on the circuit.

That said of all the non UK plugs, the Australian one is up there. US are the worst and schuco (most of Europe) isn't great.