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What is the best style electrical outlet?
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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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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.
Oh dude that's medieval lol
Holy shit that's just sadistic!!
The โ90s was also the era of Mortal Kombat, so at least it makes sense in its historical context
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...
is that PoE adapter
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.
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