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Dongles break, slide off, cause disconnects, can cause internal damage to the connector if the cables you have to connect are heavy, etc..., I already have the bad experience of having to use a USB hub to attach storage.
When it comes to engineering, I'm of the opinion that built-in > bolt in.
Heavy cables are just stupid no matter the port used, or dongle. Dongles do not brake faster than normal ports do. Normal ports do internal damage just the same way. “Cause disconnects”, only if damaged.
I don’t have problems with my dongle (which I had to use like only 2 times a year, anyway)
Wait!.... You don't have problems with something you only used twice in a year? No way!
Its clear you and the person you replied to have different use cases for your devices, and perhaps what they are saying is just as valid as what you are saying.
😌 I “need” it only twice on my daily driver a year.
There are many more devices I use in various situations with various ports and dongles. Heavy cables are a pain for all of them, no matter if dongles or no dongles. In fact dongles often prevent internal damage, since they often have a short flexible cable on the thunderbolt side.
But I guess doing something just a little different does need a lot of time to get used to, especially at the age of boomers 🤷🏻
That's the issue then. You think it's boomers who dont like change as opposed to capitalists removing functionality to sell it back to you in a separate package. I would aregue its zoomers not being able to identify when they are being conned.
The PITA is that I use RJ45 pretty much every day. It's not just a matter of "oh there's wifi everywhere"; 99% of wifis everywhere are not open, or are actually not connected to the networks I'm working on, or I need the physical connector to diagnose wire / networking issues; and the performance of wifi on Linux on refurbrished machines tends to be subpar and they tend to not allow for "developer mode" options (playing with your MAC, WPA supplanting, etc).
If Tesla, the actual Tesla, had given us technology instead of the thief ~~Elon~~ Edison, then perhaps we'd somehow have point-to-point wireless RJ45 that would function everywhere, and I wouldn't need the connector.
Just use USB-C to Ethernet cables 😇
I've already been through the problem with that. Cba doing it again.