NO MORE WALL
WARTS !!!!
Then where are you going to get system power?
A non-wall-wart
external supply, presumably.
I'm not terribly fond of them myself, but I
don't really mind some of
the better made switch-mode wall-warts,
Well, maybe. I've seen one kind whose footprint on the outlet is
barely more than an ordinary plug's; that's pretty close to OK. But
every other wall-part I've seen insists on covering up significant
amounts of outlet space beyond the outlet itself, and that I do not
like. Any power supply that has physical constraints meaning two of
them can't be plugged into adjacent outlets in any of the common
configurations (2->6 multiplier, power-bar, and rotated power-bar in
particular) is, IMO, buggy.
There exist short (~ 1 foot) extension cords, which help, but it's
annoying to have to supply them myself - and it's only recently that I
found them; until then, I'd've had to make them from plugs, sockets,
and wire.
and some of them are even assembled with screws.
The one I recall seeing that was held together with screws used
triangular socket heads. I made a bit for them by taking a spare screw
and grinding flats on the sides to fit, but I really don't like to have
to do that. (If they're not too tight and you can find exactly the
right size, you can sometimes drive them with Allen wrenches.
Sometimes.)
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