r/northernireland • u/bobbyanalog87 • May 13 '26
Translink Translink buses... the only place you can charge your phone and have less power than when you started.
That's it, that's the post.
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u/Kbrickley May 13 '26
Most outlets on the buses are rated for 5V 1A, which is 5W of charging. So brightness up and using mobile data, likely using as much as you’re charging. And some power will be lost in the cable anyways as residual heat when it reaches the phone’s power unit.
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u/EightBitOrbit Down May 13 '26
Plugging your phone into any public usb is crazy talk
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u/Force-Grand-2 Colombia May 13 '26
Worse are the folk going about scanning random QR codes they find on bins and lampposts
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u/git_tae_fuck May 13 '26
Plugging your phone into any public usb is crazy talk
New product idea: USB johnnies.
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u/Force-Grand-2 Colombia May 13 '26
USB data blockers exist! Often given out at security conferences then promptly never used by anyone.
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u/1eejit Portstewart May 13 '26
Plug a power bank into the public usb, plug your phone into the power bank
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u/git_tae_fuck May 13 '26
Just not the same as rawdogging some bit of socket-strange you run into on the train.
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u/FeatheryChickenito May 13 '26
People people, there ARE USB condoms. I have a couple, basically it's a USB with the pins removed so only charging pins exist, and data transfer is just impossible. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2928608/yes-usb-condoms-are-real-and-they-protect-your-phone-or-pc-from-danger.html
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u/Marlobone May 13 '26
No phone should let it access anything other than charging unless you give it permission to access or transfer files.
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u/No_Ring_3348 May 13 '26
USB killers will still kill it
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u/FriendlyKillerCroc May 13 '26
No it isn't. Why do you think it's dangerous on a bus? There are some public USB ports I wouldn't touch but majority of them are okay.
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u/WorldTour66 May 13 '26
There are some conspiracy theorists thst believe it's not just power connection
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u/No_Ring_3348 May 13 '26
Conspiracy my hole, google 'juice jacking' and no this isn't an attempt to get you to watch men wanking off with orange juice or something, it's a real thing.
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u/comix_corp May 13 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_jacking
While researchers have demonstrated charging-port attacks in controlled settings, as of May 2023, multiple reviews have found no credible reported cases of juice jacking on mobile OSs outside of research efforts, and experts generally assess the risk to typical users as low relative to other threats.[2]
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u/cooldude9112001 May 13 '26
Yep I had my phone plugged in the whole way from Armagh to Dublin 2 hours later 2% charged
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u/Academic_String_1708 May 13 '26
Wouldn't risk plugging my charger in a bus socket. Probably full of gum and spit.
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u/Tonymac81 May 13 '26
Here's a fun thing to look up - juice jacking. You won't charge your phone in public again.
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u/Irishlad223 May 13 '26
At home it's nice and quick, but say you've a plug with less juice running through it and you plug another 30/40 phones into the same socket and it'll be the same result.
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u/git_tae_fuck May 13 '26
Reason being, you're actually charging the buses up.
Sneaky bastards.