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by 8bitsrule 2382 days ago
A DC solution is WAY overdue. Put your hand on your AC->DC converter, or your wall-wart. Above ambient room temperature? Wasted energy. "It's only 2-10 watts." Multiply by 5 units (underestimated) per 100 million households. That's >= a gigawatt. 8700+ GwH / year.

That's aside from the environmental costs of making & disposing of these pernicioius devices. Time for that decades-old solution to retire.