4 ports is pretty average for a laptop. A lot have fewer.
My work laptop only had 4 USB ports too. 2 USB A, 2 USB-C, HDMI, power, and a headphone jack. There isn't a lot of room on laptops these days.

Before USB-C was a thing, you'd be lucky to get more than 2 USB ports. Physical space is the issue here.

USB-A is legacy and is going away. It's like serial ports and VGA. Get an adapter for single accessories (they're CHEAP, like $5 for two) or get a little travel dock if you need several USB-A ports and only have one or two USB-C. (or go wireless)

Everything is either going wireless (because it can) or USB-C (because of the laundry list of upgrades it provides)

In a few years the only new things I expect to see on the market that are USB-A are the handful of things still trying to get minimal power or charging. Though even charging is going away due to the low power delivery of USB-A.

Right now Woot's got a dual USB-C 35w GaN charger for $7, and a decent USB-C travel dock for $14. If you're still clinging onto USB-A, start your transition now. Just rip off the band-aid and get it over with.

The 12V battery can't power the heat pump compressor to heat the battery.

It's cool how your anecdotal account is different to this controlled study.

20% average drop for the 20 most popular models, where they all have built in battery heaters.

The rest of the article is about the cheap vehicles being sold without battery heating.

A 2020 Model 3 has 65% capacity at 15F outside temperature, according to the linked study. In 2021 they replaced the resistive heating with a heat pump, so it only goes down to 67% range.

Ideal temperature is 68 - 74F

The "worst" in their top 20 is the VW ID.4, with 63% capacity at 32F

I wouldn't be surprise if cheap vehicles without battery heating are completely unusable below freezing. You cannot charge a lithium battery without damage below 32F, so no regen braking.
If the battery drops to 0F, you can't even use it to heat itself as the electrolyte starts to freeze. That alone can permanently damage the battery.

We're not engineers.
We're software developers.
Unless they're only surveying engineers who happen to also code?

But not if you want to do something that allows you to profit off of your own data, and especially not if you get help from someone else to do it.

I'm surprised that any (non-dictator) government today doesn't have a clear path-of-succession in place. The US has like six steps of succession iirc?
Sure, when you're digging that deep into the barrel you're not getting someone with the best of qualifications for the position, but at least you have a name.

Any group that complains they should be the only ones to use something as common as a generic feather in their logo loses all my respect.

And I don't like other groups caving to complaints like this because it sets a terrible example.

Stupid? More than double the revenue per customer with only 35% loss of customers?

That's more revenue and even more profit.

Seems to be working out very well for them.

I pay $0 a month for HBO Max

Consumers don't choose the drugs they're prescribed. Qualified, licensed, medical professionals do.

People should be going to their doctor and describing their symptoms. The doctor diagnoses the cause and prescribes something relevant to help with the root issue.

It seems entirely broken that this happens the other way around, where people ask their doctor for a specific drug.

The consumer advertising limit should be zero.

Go check out the artifical sweetener "L-glucose", it's glucose, but mirrored. It still tastes sweet, but the body can't metabolize it.

Firefox can spawn multiple processes to run groups of tabs. The browser as a whole isn't limited to 4GB of address space when compiled as 32 bit.

Solar cells can be made to be sensitive to different wavelengths of light.

Crystalline silicon panels are better for sunlight, while other semiconductors and amorphous silicon are better for broad spectrum and higher wavelengths, although overall are less efficient.