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
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Charging brick, or power adapter.
I can’t think of a better term for these.
Wall wart
USB charger.
POWER ADAPTER
Mode: YF-W36-2U
Input: 100-240v~50/60Hz 0.35A
Output: 5V=2.4A Total
*Hey babe do we have any YF-W36-2U?"
“Sorry hon only 2E”
“Dammit”
I have a 2D
The D is for you babe…
“You’re still flat? I told you if you can’t get 3D, we’re done!”
I have a 2D
I think that pic was faked.
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.
USB A/C adapter, or just “ac adapter”.
This is my actual answer, also “wall adapter,” but I really liked Ginny’s “argly bargy cable chargie.”
I refuse any moniker for these besides bricks
It’s only a brick if it’s separated from both the outlet and the device it’s powering by cables. Fight me.
🤔 you know I think you might be right. I’m going to continue calling it a brick it out of spite.
Spite is one hell of a motivator. Being hunted by hyenas is another. There’s probably others, too.
Isn’t that in itself a moniker?
Clearly labeled power adapters
wall warts
Wall Warts.
Had to scroll a bit to get to the correct answer.
Charger block/brick. I’m definitrly siding with you; “dongle” is a bit of a stretch for these.
It’s not a stretch it’s wrong. It’s not a dongle at all
Exactly. Dongles dangle
I don’t believe that’s true either. A flash drive is a dongle isn’t it
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
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??
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
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.
Wall warts
I honestly hate this term, but alas, I also say wall wart most of the time.
wall wart
I recently got odd looks for saying exactly this. I swear that’s what everyone where I live (Ohio, USA) USED to call them.
Wall warts are large transformer blocks that don’t have an AC cable but rather have an integrated plug. Yes this is a transformer that plugs straight into the wall, but it’s tiny. It’s at most a wall pimple.
wall pimple it is then
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.
I also use “wall wart”. I also don’t know anyone else who calls them that.
I call those release the Epstein files
In England, we call those argy-bargy-cable-chargies.
mfw Americans call electro-rope “power cables”
