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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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[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 11 points 5 hours ago

USB charger

The Dingus. Wall wart. And a whole number of colorful names if I step on one with the prongs up, or roll my ankle on one in the dark!

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] Allero@lemmy.today 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Adapter or charger. Rarely - power brick.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

In England, we call those argy-bargy-cable-chargies.

[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

USB A/C adapter, or just "ac adapter".

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

This is my actual answer, also "wall adapter," but I really liked Ginny's "argly bargy cable chargie."

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 3 points 6 hours ago

Chargie boys.

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

As it says on the device, power adapter. But if you wanted to be more specific, you could call it a USB power adapter.

Wall charger should also get the message across.

Take your fiancée to the hospital & check for stroke. Dongles...are something entirely different. Always.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

Power Adapter is too broad.

If someone asked me for one I wouldn't know what they wanted. It could be an international adapter, or a DC power supply, or one of these things.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 points 10 hours ago

All of that minus dongles. Never dongles!

[–] hex123456@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Marshmallow

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Charging block

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I honestly hate this term, but alas, I also say wall wart most of the time.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 12 hours ago

USB Charger

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Wall Adapter

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

YF-W36-2U

Though sometimes like to be more specific and say something like "hey can you grab the blue YF-W36-2U for me?"

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 1 points 8 hours ago

Poopy diarrhea chargers

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

Clearly labeled power adapters

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Power bricks or USB bricks. A dongle is an adapter, so it has some sort of thing on each side (besides a power plug lol).

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

are they called dongles because they dangle?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

I guess so!

[–] wshrader@lemmy.today 11 points 15 hours ago

“Charging block”

[–] Sacrifusion@reddthat.com 1 points 9 hours ago

Power block

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 15 hours ago

Usb wall charger

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 8 points 17 hours ago

Charging brick.

Unless I'm describing it in a system, then it's a full bridge rectifier :)

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

I call those release the Epstein files

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 14 hours ago
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