UK to consider USB-C as charging standard • The Register (www.theregister.com)
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 14 Oct 2024 14:17
https://lazysoci.al/post/18417790

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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oce@jlai.lu on 14 Oct 2024 15:16 next collapse

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

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 14 Oct 2024 15:44 next collapse

The Royal Horticultural Society?

Oneser@lemm.ee on 14 Oct 2024 17:17 collapse

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

sunbeam60@lemmy.one on 14 Oct 2024 17:35 collapse

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

erwan@lemmy.ml on 14 Oct 2024 17:27 next collapse

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

ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org on 14 Oct 2024 20:32 collapse

Pea mushers

walden@sub.wetshaving.social on 14 Oct 2024 20:41 collapse

Beer mug warmers

smeg@feddit.uk on 14 Oct 2024 18:06 next collapse

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

jabjoe@feddit.uk on 14 Oct 2024 19:51 collapse

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 on 15 Oct 2024 00:57 collapse

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