Taliban tech A: the internet's down in Bumfuckistan.
Taliban tech B: go fix it
Taliban tech A: I have no idea how, I tried restarting the computer and it didn't do anything
Taliban tech B: restart the router.
Taliban tech A: I tried, but it was smoking and wouldn't turn back on.
Taliban tech B: replace the router
Taliban tech A: I can , but I have no idea how to program it.
Taliban tech B: Manager, we can't fix it.
Taliban Manager: Shit. Lets just tell everyone the internet is immoral so we don't have to fix it.
Taliban tech A and B: Brilliant!

I know some companies have been working on this, but they could travel to odd places and don't need a runway. Yes, they're slow and beholden to weather, but wind turbine construction isn't exactly a speed race anyway.

I'm sure you've tried this, but use a mall pin to CAREFULLY to clear any gunk out of the phone's USB port such as lint. I've "fixed" two phones this way that were intermittently charging.

So your argument is that reducing the ports on a laptop is the fault of the user's laziness?
Do you KNOW how many people I have come in complaining that, once again, they've lost dongle A, or dongle B, or dongle C? Or they don't even know what they're missing and they're calling on the phone from some ungodly location because they can't locate said dongle and they have to present in ten minutes.
A half a dozen dongles? You are you serious?
Mostly you don't carry around a keyboard. Sometimes the site supplies it when you arrive. Sometimes displays, when you arrive, already are patched with HDMI cables ready to go.

All of this is stuff you mention we CAN do. We can carry random dongles, we can carry patches and bits and pieces and things to plug in. But simply adding the ports to the device is sooooo much easier. It's like saying "Yeah, you can carry a large solar array and power your laptop in the wilderness" when a larger installed battery would suffice.

Because they always become dictatorships. Always.
And because helping others always takes a backseat to human greed. Don't believe me? I'll pay you to mow my lawn, or you can do it to be nice.

The mint markup on precious metals is just...painful.

Now imagine, both Putin and XI get sold on a life extending treatment, and instead end up swapping bodies! Oh, the hijinks they'd be up to!

I'm imagining the real Putin and the Brain upload robot Putin have a fight, ala the spiderman pointing meme, about who the real Putin is.

Perhaps, and hear me out, we probably shouldn't be buying tons and tons of useless crap, and that higher quality, longer lasting and repairable items that don't get jammed into landfills is probably a better outcome?

It's similar to labor-- if the US requires illegal immigrants poorly paid to run a car wash, perhaps getting your car washed all the time isn't the best idea? or you should do it yourself of pay much more for it?

In the past year, I've had at least two people talk to me about books they've recently read, that they enjoyed.
It doesn't take long for me to realize they're conflating "reading" with "listening", since these are books on tape that they're listening to while driving. To them, this is reading- they're obtaining the information found in a book.
It's not reading.
I occasionally listen to books on tape as well, and realized shortly after trying it that I can only handle limited interest topics: basically silly fiction. If it involves any deep thought or mental processing, it's NOT appropriate for driving. I'm paying more attention to driving, and often miss important concepts. Serious reading cannot be done that way effectively.

There are four lights!

I have this test for when people write arguments. If they use silly pejoratives: libtard, maggot, Orange man, Killery etc. I immediately classify their argument as the work of a child, and feel free to immediately ignore everything about it. I call it the "Poo Poo Head Razor"

The void looks at a black marker and says "hey, buddy, we're basically the same thing!"

I would take my state's electrical grid not randomly failing every time a good wind comes up and fires become a danger--That was my push for a non plug in electric. As for the switch: yes, if I invested in all the home charging apparatus I'd need, I'd certainly not just write that off and switch back to ICE. It's like buying a huge entertainment setup and then suddenly saying "well, I'm going to stop paying for streaming, internet, or TV channels and just read books".

I'll take "things that never happened for $1000", Alex. You do know that Kias, and Hondas, and all sorts of vehicles are sold in the US, right? Are they somehow automagically making lower quality vehicles just for the US market? I get it, you're all in on the AmericaBad train, and yes many cars are absurdly huge, but seriously....