I recently bought a refurbished laptop, and a large part of the reason I got it was for presentations, HDMI was a must have feature for me.

I imagine any enterprise laptop would be similar, if you can’t hook it up to the projector, why bother?

I mean, there’s a reason there are multiple models of laptop you can buy.

If I’m carrying my laptop around the house, I’m carrying just the laptop, not any peripherals, whereas the dongle is in the laptop bag or on my desk.

And I quite like being able to carry my laptop around with one hand.

Yep. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Because I don’t want a chonky boi laptop to carry around.

Of course it will weigh more, those ports and the boards to drive them weigh something.

Because one of them is actively promoting and favouring viewpoints many people find abhorrent.

The fact it’s owned by a billionaire isn’t the major concern for most people.

A lot of people give presentations or connect their laptop to a TV, I don’t think taking out the HDMI port would go down well at all.

Yeah, that can stay too.

Except the device inevitably ends up bigger and chunkier.

Yeah, because plugging in one thing is way harder than plugging in six.

This is a classic use case for a laptop dock.

That’s a use case for a laptop dock if ever there was one.

Power, HDMI, a few USBs, and headphones, all you’ll ever likely need.

There’s no doubt a dongle for anything else.

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I’d likely never know if Google stopped logging me into the apps I use when I get a new device?

What?

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I mean, they’re not called International Personal Machines, are they? The server-terminal system worked well for a large organisation, and it’s not far away from how many companies still do things.

That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff, to be honest. If Google did pull something like that, I could always just create an account the old fashioned way.

This may hurt some feelings, but I trust Google more than some FOSS password manager. Besides, I log into pretty much everything with my Google account anyway.

Yes, why wouldn’t we?