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Link broken. Remove the semicolon. > my experience with USB charging ports is that they always break, and then they're a huge pain to fix, and my experience with barrel charging ports is that they almost never break, and then fixing them is pretty easy The opposite for me. I’ve broken a proprietary charge port and had to wait over a week for the replacement. Never broke a USB-C port, but if I did it’d be no big deal…
I've owned many computers that charge over USB but not USB-C. They're cellphones, though, not laptops. I'm sorry to hear about your experience with a proprietary charging port.