On Fri, 2026-07-10 at 14:29 -0400, Frank Bures wrote: > I vaguely remember that in the UK they would sell you an appliance with no > power plug on it, just a power cable with three wires protruding. You were > supposed to get the plug yourself and have it attached. I never understood > the logic behind this. Is it still on?
I don't think it is any more. The reason behind that, long ago, was there was more than one type of power plug in use across the country. Which sockets your house had depended on where you were. As far as I know they use the same plug across the island these days, though theatre lighting can be an exception. That's almost world-wide, it stops someone plugging ordinary appliances into the lighting grid. Sometimes that's done in households, too. You might find a wall socket with a round earth pin instead of flat one, it's meant for some kind of lighting (floor stand, table lamp, etc) that will be controlled by a light switch somewhere in the room. Also, they'll have used thinner wiring leading to it that cannot supply the full load of a general purpose outlet, that's another reason to make it hard to plug something else into the socket. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
