Think the point is going beyond external. If you are converting to hardwire, I'm picturing removing the power connector and putting some screw terminals down.
A barrel connector is going to be a couple of rather large solder points. A USB-C connector is... not going to be that.
Wikipedia is an interesting concept and it works decently well as a place to go read a bunch of general information and find decent sources. But LLMs are feeding that information to people in a customized, granular format that meets their exact individual needs and desires. So yeah, probably not as interested in reading your giant wall of text when they want 6 specific lines out of it.
Remember when Encyclopædia Britannica was crying about you stealing their customers, Wikipedia? Yeah, this is what they experienced.
As I recall, you can do wireless charging, and even exclusively so if you want no charging port at all. Also, plenty of devices still do non-USB-c power (e.g. if it takes AC power in, that's not required to do USB-C, and if it's a car, then it's CCS2).
There's no sign of a successor to USB-C form factor in the space that EU mandates its use. IIRC, they even wrote the standard to leave some wiggle room to adopt such a successor should it arrive, but the industry seems to have settled into USB-C as an DC power strategy up to 240W with no interest in others.
Barrel connectors can be like $0.50 cheaper, so a fair number of cheap devices could balk reasonably at how USB-C drives their prices higher and they don't need USB-C. But a more 'advanced' connector is not in the cards.
Obviously the next step is CCS2 over USB-C, duh.
"And then we'll add a waffle-maker because everyone loves waffles. Eventually we'll get around to adding a web browser but lets not get ahead of ourselves." -Mozilla 'Dev' Team
It's GNU/Hurd or nothing
"DirecTV Will Soon Bring AI Ads To Your Screensaver"
No they fucking won't, because I don't use DirecTV, and if I did I'd drop them like a bad habit.
But since I don't use DirecTV, this move only ensures that I'll never use DirecTV.
So, yeah congrats to DirecTV for alienating at least some fraction of their untapped audience. Truly forward thinking in reverse.
I think any dramatic change from how you currently run things to a different way is full of risk. Just because it's Linux doesn't really do much in the face of who knows how much hard coded this or that they accumulated in their infrastructure management.
People's infrastructure management tends to be ugly and locked in to how they do it in various ways.
Azure may be utterly capable, but any difference is a huge headache, particularly the longer the 'old ways' went on and how many people along the way left the company.
It was widely rumored that in 1998 Microsoft tried to force Hotmail to use Microsoft infrastructure and met with predictably miserable results. Hotmail was more about trying to show off their infrastructure products that as an offering in and of itself.
Microsoft might be a bit more conflicted on github, but clearly that sentiment persists.
Unfortunately looks like they are sufficiently impatient they've pivoted to trying to fire up more coal instead...
Most bubbles are rooted in something real, the dotcom, the housing market. You do have things like crypto that is more purely fictional, but most mainstream bubbles are rooted in real stuff..
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
