Semi-technical thoughts

Adapter I had for charging my laptop broke yesterday. Now I need to give you a bit of a background to explain what kind of adapter that was. So, Lenovo produces lots of different laptops. And, just like all other manufacturers, they have lots of different charger connectors. With Yoga series, it was always some weird variation of USB, not a (more typical until recently) round connector. In particular, for Yoga 3 and 4 it looks like this: (Photo from Aliexpress) It's unclear why apart from making people buy their stupid chargers. You hardly can use the port for anything else when not charging (it's not even 3.0). And I mean stupid, just look at this: (Photo from Aliexpress) How can even call it a "travel" adapter is beyond understanding. If you actually travel, you have either to buy a new one for every socket type, or use a socket adapter which (considering most wall sockets are located in walls) will make this massive charger fall out every few minute...

Some devices come with a good wrist band. Take Fitbit Charge HR, for example: Fitbit Charge HR and what wrist band is supposed to look like It's comfortable and there almost no way to lose it between good buckle and additional security band (not shown that it has an additional claw inside to fix it in place). While others are just crappy and too easy to lose: Samsung Gear Fit 2 And how to lose it Just unstrap it with your backpack or something and it slips right off, you'll never notice Huawei Talkband B2 Not as expensive but just as easy to lose I mentioned that Talkband B3 's band, while looking the same, is marginally better. But not much better. What to do with it all? Obviously, the first thing you should do is to let the manufacturer know about this fault. Especially if you already lose some device, go write an angry tweet or post and contact the manufacturer. Repeat often enough and maybe they'll stop doing it. Before th...