I’m pretty happy with a usb-c port multiplier doing all the work. Who wants to carry around all those accessories?

• When I want to be portable, all I need is my laptop.
• when I sit at my desk, one connection gets me power, monitor, Ethernet, keyboard, mouse, headphones, and lots of empty ports

Hopefully there’s a mistake in the article.

• It does claim they were both discontinued this year and reached end of support this year. If that’s true, that’s huge and there should be consequences in the market.
• if the article is poorly written and the only concern is they already passed end of support so are no longer being supported , that seems like a tautology.

The stereotype is always a coal mining town. There used to be a mine employing many people, but now it’s automated or the mine played out

The town I grew up in was a bustling town with one dominant employer. When that employer moved out it left a big gap and an entire generation of younger people moved away

The town my father grew up in was never bustling. However it was a significant center of a rural area with many family farms. By the time I was growing up, those farms were no longer economical, so people moved away and there’s no need for a population center

A small town I used to visit all the time was once a bustling tourist town, but no one goes there anymore. It’s really just regional now, instead of the busy season drawing people from anywhere between Montreal and NYC. It’s probably cheap flying as much as anything else: who wants to vacation on a cold beach when you can hop a flight down south for the same cost

It’s more modern than that. I don’t have time to look for stats, but I believe there’s been general migration to cities for like half a century or more

I can sell you one with real floppy drives!