This whole problem is so easily solved. I'm tired of reading about all this bullshit they do EXCEPT solve the actual problem.

I generally just dump them out of their bag and air fry them for 8 minutes, turn them over and give them another 8 minutes.

No boiling. No slicing. No oil.

Customers ALWAYS have a say. They can use the business, or not.

Sounds like most hospitals.

Mine still has an old style plug in phone on the night stand and a CRT television!

Yeah. I tried that approach when I made the appt. I was told to just tell them the most important reason to be seen today, which I did.

Well. Not really sure what to say, other than there are plenty of us who want mfrs to stop producing stuff with USB-A just as soon as possible, and cheer on the mfrs that do so.

Personally, my buying days are all but over. It doesn't much matter to me at this point. My recent buying spree took me up to USB-C pretty much across the board for all my important stuff. I have plenty of USB-A, and unfortunate number of micro, and an even more unfortunate amount of the absolutely retarded USB-mini.

Admiral Ackbar: "It's a trappist!"

Correction: kaboom

Upgrading my phone and earbuds to USB-C helped a lot.

Now the only Lightning thing I travel with is my old pair of earbuds. I keep them around as an emergency backup that rarely gets used. So, low burden. Oh, yeah, the AppleTV remote is also Lightning. But that's also a really low burden since the battery life on it is so long and I rarely use it anyway. Easily handled by using an adapter on a USB-C cable.

My external trackpad and keyboard are still Lightning, but is not really an issue since they stay at home. If I traveled with them regularly, it would be easy to throw a long Lightning cable in the laptop bag, just in case.

potential hurdles include ensuring that the methods used for startup, operation and shutdown avoid instabilities

"Instabilities" = that giant boom that Marvin the Martian always wanted to hear.

As I mentioned, the outrage may induce a change to the existing law.

This was at a non-profit place.

Don Q-uixote

Sorry about my last reply. I had lot going on and hit save before was ready. Sorry if it seemed terse.

Anyway, the key to this is to make a little travel kit. The right little container, with just the stuff to cover your needs. Depending on what you're doing, you may have a larger kit, with things broken up into sub-kits, for easier and quicker access.

I have a headphone kit. It has my headphones, the charging cable they need, and my Bluetooth relay for them:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM...

That is all that is in that kit.

Then I have another kit for basic cables. It has very short versions and where applicable, a long version, of a USB-C to USB-C cord.
Then I have several very short versions of USB-A to USB-C, USB-A to USB Mini, USB-A to USB-Micro and USB-A to Lightning. The container for this kit has a little pocket, with all kinds of adapters to get from one plug type to another.

Then I have my charging kit. It has a multi-plug wall charger that I can plug whatever into and get it charged up. That includes some 110 outlets, and a repeat of the stuff in the last kit. This way, if I just need cords, I pull out that small kit. If I need to charge stuff, I pull out this larger kit that has everything I need, without disturbing my more portable kit. This is the centerpiece of this kit:
https://a.co/d/1kQqMs4

Then I have my AppleTV kit. It has the AppleTV that stays in this kit for traveling, its power cord, an HDMI cable, a little stubby HDMI cord thing, a PS5 controller for games, etc. just what I need for this, nothing else, in the smallest container that holds it.

Then I have a dash cam kit. Same idea. Just what I need for a dash cam to travel with. USB cord, way to mount the cam, etc.

I think you get the idea here. Each kit has a dedicated purpose. Each kit is labeled with an high quality printed label. This lets me easily know which kit is which. Only stuff for that purpose goes in the kit. Items from kits STAY TOGETHER to keep the kits complete!! This may mean I travel with more cords that need. Too bad. My shit is organized, easy to access, and complete.

Then, when I need to go on the road, I grab whatever kits I need and leave the rest. Right now I am in the hospital, so I didn't bring the dash cam or AppleTV kits.

Overall, this approach works really well. You need to spend time to decide what you need and build out your kits. Finding the perfect container for each kit is key. Duplicating cords across kits so that you can keep complete kits together at all times is key.

No kidding!

Try taking a shit when connected to a IV infusion pump pumping drugs into a port in your chest, CO2 monitor cannula in your nose, and a heart monitor with 8 leads, with wires and tubes hanging out all over the place and not making a mess out of everything, like I was just doing.

USB-A ports, dongles and hubs are a dream compared to all of that!!