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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Okay, but also:
Simple. “USB Power Adapter”.
those are all power adapters. they’re just different ports to adapt. so bottom right is a dc power adapter, middle right is also a dc power adapter. top left is a global power adapter. top right is a power adapter with 2 usb a ports. bottom left is unknown since we don’t know what the other end is.
Top 2 are plug adapters (and probably power adapters too. I would call the bottom 3 power bricks, I guess the defining thing is bricks have a permanent cable.
GOT EM
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.
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.
That’s totally fair, and I agree. People in my circles say power adapter or wall charger, or hell actually enough people also say HEY. I need a phone charger. Understood. 🤙🤙🤙
This is a wall plugged charger with USB A -> please stop calling it dongle. I am sure we can at least agree, that dongle is factually wrong.
USB charger
Wall wart
Charger block/brick. I’m definitrly siding with you; “dongle” is a bit of a stretch for these.
It’s not a stretch it’s wrong. It’s not a dongle at all
Exactly. Dongles dangle
I don’t believe that’s true either. A flash drive is a dongle isn’t it
no
Gonna be honest my man I don’t care, if my fiancee asks if I have a dongle I know what she means, even if it’s wrong it would be silly to correct her and require she changes how she says it
Just asking for a dongle with no context is already kind of an issue. Unless this is the only thing she ever calls a dongle. It’s like saying can you give me a piece of cutlery. What kind??
Again, I do not care, that’s not something that matters in our relationship
Edit: I still don’t care and now I’m going to start saying it when talking to her because your discomfort gives me joy
If you both know what you mean, that’s all that matters because that’s the entire point of language in that context. I don’t think it’s giving anyone discomfort though.
Wall Warts.
Had to scroll a bit to get to the correct answer.
All of that minus dongles. Never dongles!
Clearly labeled power adapters
Charging brick, or power adapter.
I can’t think of a better term for these.
Wall warts
I honestly hate this term, but alas, I also say wall wart most of the time.
USB A/C adapter, or just “ac adapter”.
This is my actual answer, also “wall adapter,” but I really liked Ginny’s “argly bargy cable chargie.”
“Charging block”
Wall Adapter
Adapter or charger. Rarely - power brick.
