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25 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

Another one in the eye for those bureaucrats in Brussels.

 

 

Hopefully the junior minister who decided this waits a reasonable amount of time before starting their highly paid consultancy role at Apple. Got to keep up appearances. 

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30 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Hopefully the junior minister who decided this waits a reasonable amount of time before starting their highly paid consultancy role at Apple. Got to keep up appearances. 

Presumably though the GB ones will have a crown on them like the pint tumblers. Interesting rebellion over a really major issue. I'll certainly sleep more soundly having heard of this major victory. 🤣

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1 hour ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

Another one in the eye for those bureaucrats in Brussels.

 

 

Pointless bit of nonsense.  Type C is already better in many ways, to Lightening including charge times and data transfer rates. 

However the general movement is towards more efficient wireless charging and cloud data transfers, so both may well be obsolete in the relatively near future.

On the plus side, it will bring down the cost of charging cables in the short term, because it will stop their buggeration factor of putting a chip in to 'ensure'  Apple certification (bunch of fucking erse)!

As with all contrarian nonsense thought up by this government, our 'freedom' to choose, could well end up with us spending more on outdated and more inefficient items.

File under 'world leading track and trace' or 'imperial measurements'.

Yours

aDONis

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4 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

Presumably though the GB ones will have a crown on them like the pint tumblers. Interesting rebellion over a really major issue. I'll certainly sleep more soundly having heard of this major victory. 🤣

It'll be a UKCA mark instead of a CE mark on electrical equipment. That's much better, and definitely safer, because it mentions the UK (even though it won't be valid in NI.)

Take that, Brussels.

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"The disastrous consequences of Brexit for living standards, for our economic wellbeing and for Britain’s reputation abroad, have so far been obscured by Covid, the war in Ukraine and the headline-grabbing story of our prime minister’s lack of truthfulness and integrity. But this week, the British press perhaps unintentionally revealed the real world that is emerging as a result of Brexit.

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"In my last column I suggested that Brexit is the biggest act of self-harm inflicted on the British economy since the return to the gold standard in 1925. Even arch-Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg has recently admitted that implementing the next stage of the bureaucracy associated with Brexit would be an “act of self-harm”. I did not make that up.

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