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Charlie Stross Oct 4, 2024

SCREAM!

(Context for Americans: until relatively recently mains appliances in the UK came without a plug—you had to fit your own. Also they're fused and have to carry 230vac, so getting it wrong is a BAD idea. And this is Very Not Right Indeed.)
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Iolo (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I asked ChatGPT how to wire a standard UK plug using the new canvas feature...

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺Oct 4, 2024

@cstross "Relatively recently" is doing some heavy lifting here - I'd guess appliances without fitted plugs is at least 35 years ago.
I doubt youngsters today really need to know how to wire a plug ( but I accept it's a useful skill).

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Ian Sudbery

@MikeFromLFE @cstross depends on the appliance. If say more like 20 since this completely died out. The speakers I still use on my desktop have a self fitted plug, and I'm sure some lamps still come like that so you can choose between mains and lamp-ring circuits.