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What a stupidly simple yet clever idea.

You just helped me decide what to have for dinner on this miserable cold wet day. source: Am South Australian

We do have 15, 20, and 25A sockets, but these (especially the latter two) are quite uncommon (in the home) and most appliances which require more than 10A are hardwired on dedicated circuits such as for ovens, cooktops and ranges. Our typical clothes dryers just plug in though, with hardwired mainly found in laundromats and other commercial spaces.

I've always found this fascinating about Canada and the US. Both legs are +/- 120V potential to ground, and 240V between them. Here in Australia, everything in my house is 230V between active(hot) and neutral, both for plug in appliances and hard wired stuff like my heat pump (We call it a reverse cycle air conditioner here). Almost every house I've ever lived in has had one.

My old resistive clothes dryer just plugged into a standard 10A outlet like everything else. My current heat pump dryer uses 1/5 the energy though and has already paid for the extra purchase cost over the past three years.

I wish

B e a n s 🐾

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

Lemmy as a whole is a community of people who choose it as a nice place to spend time.

Just participate. Or don't. Either is fine.

If you do, be kind. Plenty of people here seeking positive interaction and discussion.

If you don't, make sure you at least up/downvote stuff. It still contributes to this amazing community.

Either way, you are welcome here.

Big purchases must happen on big screen.

I use Arch btw

Captain America, the reference understood

I got scammed in Thailand. A guy on the street let me hold his slow loris. My friend took a couple of photos while it was trying to climb onto my hat, and only then did the guy tell me that photos were 200 baht each. Best scam ever.