@th @cstross The hidden marvels of BS1363!

@th @cstross well in terms of electrical connections this is how many double insulated/unearthed appliances (such as phone chargers) already do it in the UK, except they hide the lack of connection of the earth prong inside a regular UK plug or 2-pin adapter.
Still I'd rather not do it as shown.

@ErikJonker @cstross *its

And *it's* easy to identify the ai techbro dickbag shills.

There is no good from LLMs, the evil they wrought is overwhelmingly superior to any hurrr-useful trivial bullshit.

@th @cstross I mean, I have a ‘universal’ travel adapter that literally just provides a little rectangular plastic pin to insert in the ground slot of a type g socket to open the shutters for the two other pins.

@cstross aha, that's how the electrician learned to wire up this socket then.

@RolloTreadway @cstross @zakalwe
UK plugs and outlets are brilliant. A power switch — ON THE OUTLET! I love them.

US plugs: Eh, maybe it'll stay in if I bend the prongs a bit ...

@winkleink @cstross Always keen to jump on a bandwagon, I just asked Gemini to draw me a diagram of how to wire a UK plug. And, well, I'm not asking Sundar Pichai for any DIY help any time soon.

@DJDarren @cstross @winkleink Looks perfectly fine to me.

@DJDarren @winkleink @cstross at least this one won’t burn your house down?

@josh0 @DJDarren @winkleink @cstross

Yeah that fuse will last about 0.001 seconds. Safe!

@DJDarren @winkleink @cstross I was going to say that at least that fuse blew when I just looked at that diagram, but on second thought, that's impossible.

@cstross An observation that if an appliance did come with a pre-wired plug (nb not moulded ones), that didn't mean they were safe. First thing I learnt to do was check the wiring. Yikes in so many cases.

@cstross ooooh thought you were talking about the US. I did know that about the UK.

@DJDarren @winkleink @cstross On the contrary. I think he should be the *only* person required to use these instructions to wire up a plug.

@th @cstross This made me quickly move my hands away from the phone. It still makes me uncomfortable just looking at it. Excellent!

@DJDarren
LOL looking at the picture with WTF on my face, and after while read that it's AI genera^W hallucinated.

@winkleink @cstross

@shaknais @oddhack @cstross

I have nothing but:

@cstross Oddly, you might live. That drawing was SO %$&*ed up that it appeared to have a whole extra pin!

@th @cstross

No, just no. It's a good quality socket (MK are one of the best, and used to be the automatic choice for the building trade), but you have no idea what's behind that faceplate and if it's been correctly wired. Sticking _anything_ conductive into an electrical outlet is a very bad idea. (And a metal door key is probably one of the worst things you could use.) 3:O(((>

@Phosphenes @josh0 @winkleink @cstross In fairness, there aren't many sockets that could accept that plug.