• iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world
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      People need to stop using gender with cabling. It’s confusing as hell. They’re plugs, which mate with (plug into) receptacles, and there are pins, which mate with sockets! Is a plug with sockets male or female? What about a receptacle with pins?

      As a wire harness master, I will die on this hill.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
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        if it has pins it’s male because it shouldn’t have any power. feminist electrical theory.