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UK to consider USB-C as charging standard • The Register

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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/uk_usbc_charging_standard/

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • millie@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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  • erwan@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pea mushers

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Royal Horticultural Society?

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      • Oneser@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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