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This is pointless, as we get European stuff, but I guess it makes sense for those few random things that are made just for the UK.

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Academic. The EU has already done it and so we in the UK already have it. Our market just isn't big enough, relative to it's locality, to do something different. Whatever the EU does just washes over us. Only now we have no say in the what that is or how it is implemented.

[–] millie@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

Gotta push the island across the Atlantic I think. Vote on it, I'm sure the logistics will sort themselves out after.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago

It's interesting timing, two years after a UK government spokesperson said "we are not currently considering replicating" the EU charging requirement and a full year after the European Union officially mandated USB-C charging for a wide range of electronic devices.

There's been a bit of a change since then, mate

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there any electronics made only for the UK? What for example?

[–] ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 12 points 1 month ago

Beer mug warmers

[–] oce@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gosh, the money to join the USB-C standard should go into RHS instead!

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Royal Horticultural Society?

[–] Oneser@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Obviously, more plants are needed to combat the destructive USB industry.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 7 points 1 month ago

We give 300 million a year to the RHS! Those money should go to bri’ish chargers running on bri’ish phones!