You are spreading false information. I routinely enter my other country with a combination of US passport and national ID card. I haven't renewed my passport for that country in almost 20 years, more than half of which I was living there for.

I never noticed any problems, but I did have the mmx version. It wasn't fast but never did the playback stutter , even with dreamweaver and several browser windows

People working with buildings, infrastructure, and artifacts that predate 1582. Many such things in Europe

I have the same issue. For all the talk of USB-C's supposed design for redirecting damage from the ports to the connector, it failed pretty badly here for probably thousands of people. Never had these issues with a barrel connector.

The problem I always had with barrel connectors is that they get loose, sometimes very quickly, and this experience has been near-universal. Even the more fancy barrel-with-center-pin connector found on some PowerPC PowerBooks and iBooks wasn’t immune.

USB-C is definitely no panacea when it comes to durability, though. I’ve had better luck with Lightening and wish the USB-C connector took more inspiration from it.