Except for the fact that 1896 was - not - a midterm election year

Yes but the Chinese version is the OG this time

Sure but here we are talking about Airplay, not about a monitor directly connected to the iPad (which also can be done)

Great, just need to make sure I have a dongle and a 10' HDMI cable in my iPad bag.

Why would you need a dongle? I never understood this complaint. If you need a dongle you just bought the wrong cable. Instead of a dongle and an HDMI-to-HDMI cable, you could just have gotten a USB-C to HDMI cable.

Same goes for basically every other scenario where people complain about needing dongles.

Sometimes you're given an HDMI cable to plug into your device, like in an office meeting room. Or in the article's case, a classroom.

Because I own a number of USB C dongles and a number of HDMI cables, both of which are extremely common, but zero USB C to HDMI cables, which I'm assuming I could easily find on Aliexpress but have never actually seen before in my life.

Because you want to recharge your ipad ? never heard of it ?

Airplay can just extend the screen as a second monitor on MacOS

I was taught on how to use my new C64C since I was 5. My favorite games were Boulder Dash and Gridder (hence my hn handle). Good times