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>>5045564
i assume it has a micro usb port, correct? did you know that that port loosening thing is actually relatively common any device that contains a micro usb port because, generally speaking, micro usb is the least mechanically robust usb connector. during the era of micro usb being the standard, manufacturers would add it to everything, even when they could have used mini usb instead, which is sturdier and more robust and never had this problem of ports shitting the bed after so much use. it's also not that much bigger, not big enough to make an appreciable difference to compactness in most use cases. the only valid reason to use a micro usb port in a device is if the device is so small that mini usb is too big for it, well aside from "muh universal standard". mini usb should have remained the standard while micro was a niche thing that was only used when it was actually a necessity. i'm so glad we're past micro, because the C connector does not seem to have any long term durability problems. it's what micro should have been in the first place. a good way to look at micro is not that it was it's own thing, you should view it as C alpha, because that's what it is.