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xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet

Title text:

Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3186/

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 17 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Seems to be incompatible with some plugs, after all:

Danish computer equipment outlet with asymmetrically tilted prongs and half-circular ground (mainly used in professional environment). Nicknamed "dumb face sockets" in Denmark

For some reason the image doesn't seem to work for me, so here's the link to it, too

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The embed looks fine for me using Voyager through sh.itjust.works with a ‘muricuh IP.

[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thunder user here, works fine

[–] TDCN@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are more in this series... They are used in Denmark FYI. This one is for hospitals so the cleaning lady does not plug the vacume cleaner into the same power lines as the life saving critical equipment but its compatible in the other direction if needed. The one you posted is the same idea but for IT equipment. EDB is the Danish equivalent to IT

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's no preview, not even a hint of the image being there... But clicking on the text show the image in Boost

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

On thunder there was no picture in post preview, but there is a picture in the post. Maybe it's because of png format, or maybe Wikimedia does something weird when you embed links to it, dunno