found a DE-3 in the wild, folks

[cinebox@masto.hackers.town]

@tubetime

[crazybutable@mastodon.social]

@tubetime the rarely seen larval stage of the IEC C14

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tubetime How to make sure that nobody has the right plug.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@tubetime leave this body, @NanoRaptor !

[plaidtron3000@jorts.horse]

@tubetime Oh, HP.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@tubetime ‍…but also

[literatesavant@mastodon.au]

@tubetime I like to imagine that those four tabs on the bottom are also signal pins, making it an extra cursed connector.

[root42@chaos.social]

@tubetime is that an HP logo?
DE3… could be power delivery…?

[damonhd@mastodon.social]

@tubetime Clearly a savage rough-and-tumble place!

[marisadoom@tech.lgbt]

@tubetime three pins are enough for everyone

[ic5146@meow.social]

@tubetime ah yes, the true way of carrying three phase power

[mrwho@furry.engineer]

@literatesavant @tubetime

Looks like these "pins" have contact to the shield.
Maybe they are springs to hold the plug in the socket?

[mian@mstdn.social]

@tubetime why does it look like someone just bored those holes in the plastic

[brot@social.tchncs.de]

@crazybutable @tubetime ooh, underrated comment

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@mian @tubetime
At least they spent the time to countersink them too

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@tubetime Is a RCA jack a DE-1?

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@tubetime Why does it look like it took a screwdriver to pry the plug off?

[vathpela@infosec.exchange]

@MrWho @literatesavant @tubetime that's what I was thinking as well - maybe some kind of minor conformance workaround.