Adapters for upgrading your home’s firmware.
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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
wall warts
USB-Power-Supply
Chakra, Charging brick, power adapter
USB bricks or USB chargers
Now that you make me think about it I think I've been calling them different names depending on what I intended to use them for, most of the time (I'm translating) I call them phone charger but I also called the power supply or usb power supply when I wanted to power something else.
Never thought about it.
Plug adapter - UK
Wall block USB wall block
Most of the time, we just call it block , I’ve never heard of wall wart. Today I learned…
Squares
The wonders of spanish
Plugs?
It appears the manufacturers call them power adapters
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.
Everything you said was except for dongle. I absolutely would not accept that in my household.
Block
cube or charging cube
Brick.
Charger block
USB wall adaptor
Wall block
I refuse any moniker for these besides bricks
Wall charger or charger brick
Standalone USB chargers. Or in Dutch I'd probably just call them USB -opladers.
A proper na.e would be an AC to DC adapter or a DC power supply.
shaboops
USB chargers
At one point we called them USB chargers. Nowadays, though, I just call them e-waste. Every thing I’ve bought for the last few years has been USB-C, and chargers for those usually come with a 10w type A port.
Power bricks Plugs
USB wall-wart
The charger/phone charger. Since it's the most used charger it's just the default if we're not specific