My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

Re:My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:52PM (#14607851)

I don't have a USB-C Mac, but but Apple's $80 MagSafe chargers aren't actually very good. They don't have basic strain relief sleeves on the cables, so they get kinked at the ends and fray/melt/stop working after a year or two of regular use.

This has been a problem for more than 10 years and Apple's never done anything about it. I can only imagine it's because they think the strain relief is ugly, which is one of those random bits of belligerent incompetence that's really frustrating as a Mac fan.

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Re:My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won by valuearb on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:30PM (#14609714)

I've only had a half dozen MagSafe chargers, and never had one fail.

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Re:My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:38PM (#14609747)

I've had at least four, and never had one not fail.

It may depend on the conditions you use them in; keeping it on your desk most of the time is probably better than carrying it around and using it in coffee shops and so forth. But that's a standard use case for laptops; there's no excuse for not being able to survive that.

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