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> Hotels and many other places have started offering USB A and USB C ports. I think we're close to the point (5-10 years away?) where you could go to the US fro

> Hotels and many other places have started offering USB A and USB C ports. I think we're close to the point (5-10 years away?) where you could go to the US from Europe with just a laptop, for 2 weeks, and you'd be able to charge it just by using USB C ports available in restaurants, hotels, bars, offices, etc. Yeah, but I don't think there are USB C razors yet. > On top of that, for wall outlets the EU is mostly standardized except for Denmark, I think. France and Germany have different outlets (although there are plugs that work in both), and as far as I can tell, Italy has a completely different outlet from either of them. And the UK never stopped using their own system.

oblio 4y ago
> Yeah, but I don't think there are USB C razors yet. Give it a few years :-) I have a hair clipper that uses micro-USB. > France and Germany have different outlets (although there are plugs that work in both), and as far as I can tell, Italy has a completely different outlet from either of them. See this: https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/EuropePlugsSockets.html https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/EuropePlugsSockets.html In continental Europe in practice you only care about 2 standards: the German one and the French one. Those cover something like 45 out of 47 countries in Europe. On top of that, the narrow connector actually works in all of continental Europe and for the big one, almost everything sold since at least 1 decade works with both the German and French standards. Sucks to be Italy or Switzerland, I guess :-) > And the UK never stopped using their own system. The UK is still doing its own thing with many things, we don't talk about them anymore...
- microtherion 4y ago
  > Sucks to be Italy or Switzerland, I guess :-) Or Denmark. That still makes 3 incompatible standards in the EU, and 5 incompatible standards in Europe overall.

oblio 4y ago

> Yeah, but I don't think there are USB C razors yet. Give it a few years :-) I have a hair clipper that uses micro-USB. > France and Germany have different outlets (although there are plugs that work in both), and as far as I can tell, Italy has a completely different outlet from either of them. See this: https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/EuropePlugsSockets.html https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/EuropePlugsSockets.html In continental Europe in practice you only care about 2 standards: the German one and the French one. Those cover something like 45 out of 47 countries in Europe. On top of that, the narrow connector actually works in all of continental Europe and for the big one, almost everything sold since at least 1 decade works with both the German and French standards. Sucks to be Italy or Switzerland, I guess :-) > And the UK never stopped using their own system. The UK is still doing its own thing with many things, we don't talk about them anymore...

microtherion 4y ago
> Sucks to be Italy or Switzerland, I guess :-) Or Denmark. That still makes 3 incompatible standards in the EU, and 5 incompatible standards in Europe overall.