Comment by imglorp

16 hours ago

How? The (US) charger's only got 2 pins so ground stays unconnected.

There are grounded duckheads for this purpose, e.g. https://amzn.to/4cnzuef (note out of stock. I guess your best bet is to use a UK duckhead, but half of those have a dummy ground...)

if you take the plug part from the brick you'll note that there's only two pins but the button-like thing is a ground

as noted in a sibling, the power adapter extension cable does plumb the ground through (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw2n3ll/a/power-adapter-e...)

The extension cable they used to include in box with the computers, it has the third pin for the charger brick connector which is wired to ground

  • There's zero chance that the DC ground in the laptop is tied to earth ground in the charger: they use LLC resonant converters and flyback converters (depending on vintage) - an earth ground tie would defeat the purpose of these isolated topologies.

    • However it’s wired up the fact is the electric buzzing feeling goes away if you use a grounded extension cable instead of two pin.