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

  • mienshao
    184·
    15 days ago

    POWER ADAPTER

    Mode: YF-W36-2U

    Input: 100-240v~50/60Hz 0.35A

    Output: 5V=2.4A Total

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        Wall voltage = 120V and Wavy.

        Old USB = 5V and Not Wavy.

        These adapt the two. They’re also known as power supplies. The bricks in laptop cables are also power supplies, they can just handle more power. Modern high speed USB just has a whole conversation with the plug where they agree on whether to use Not Wavy 5V, 9V, 15V, or 20V.

      • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz
        8·
        15 days ago

        Interesting, for us bricks refers to the rechargable portable USB power devices they sell. I don’t even know how to describe them properly without calling them “bricks” or “power bricks”.

        • habitualTartare
          10·
          15 days ago

          Power bank would be the term or battery brick/bank if you wanted to meld both terms.

        • Capricorn_Geriatric
          9·
          15 days ago

          I think “brick” started because laptop chargers used to have the adapter like an actual brick (most still do).

          Since phones can get away with smaller power cables, the brick got stuck onto the regular power socket.

          And since they use(d) less juice, the brick isn’t a brick anymore.

          AFAIK batteries are power banks, but brick and bank sound alike so I guess it got lost in translation a bit.

    • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
      1·
      15 days ago

      Bricks, or brick for that lone loose one that pops up in mysterious places around the house. Seriously, who would ever just put it on the end of the banister?

  • bigbabybilly
    57·
    15 days ago

    Wall wart, but nobody knows what the fuck I’m talking about. “charger plug” is what those anround me expect to hear. So, that’s what I call them.

    • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      Same here, it seems to be the most common in tech circles online. I’ve never once said it and have someone understand. Not the meaning, nor the words.

    • Carrot@lemmy.today
      1·
      14 days ago

      How does this happen? I call them wall warts as well, and nobody around me does. I will follow up with “phone charger”

  • OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network
    55·
    15 days ago

    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.

    • anomoly
      7·
      15 days ago

      The first time I heard the term dongle it was for the little adapter that connected to a PCMCIA card and I gave my buddy shit for using the term because I thought it sounded dumb. Then, on a trip to the local computer store an employee used the same term for the piece and I got to feel like the dumb one. Good times.

    • maxprime@lemmy.ml
      7·
      15 days ago

      50% of the time I would be handed a cable. Who knows what’s on the other end of it.

    • shalafiEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      Had to scroll a bit to get to the correct answer.

  • wiccan2
    31·
    15 days ago

    Phone charger

    But in the case of the ones in the pic, fire hazzard

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      Because they’re made in the wrong part of China where no iPhones and Motorola are made? It’s so hard to tell whether it’s the west side of Shenzhen or the east side that is best. Are they gonna dance-fight over that?

      hazzard

      Them Duke boys.

    • Cenzorrll
      3·
      14 days ago

      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.

  • FeathercrownEnglish
    31·
    15 days ago

    Charger block/brick. I’m definitrly siding with you; “dongle” is a bit of a stretch for these.

    • Fogle@lemmy.ca
      251·
      14 days ago

      It’s not a stretch it’s wrong. It’s not a dongle at all

      • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        610·
        14 days ago

        Gonna be honest my man I don’t care, if my fiancee asks if I have a dongle I know what she means, even if it’s wrong it would be silly to correct her and require she changes how she says it

        • Fogle@lemmy.ca
          81·
          14 days ago

          Just asking for a dongle with no context is already kind of an issue. Unless this is the only thing she ever calls a dongle. It’s like saying can you give me a piece of cutlery. What kind??

          • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
            68·
            14 days ago

            Again, I do not care, that’s not something that matters in our relationship

            Edit: I still don’t care and now I’m going to start saying it when talking to her because all of your discomfort gives me joy

            • buttnugget
              1·
              14 days ago

              If you both know what you mean, that’s all that matters because that’s the entire point of language in that context. I don’t think it’s giving anyone discomfort though.

  • andrewta
    21·
    15 days ago

    I’m reading through the comments and pretty much I’ve heard them called all of them and I’ve called them most of them

    Except a wall wart