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Photo : Raxsoller Malayte ( Shutterstock ) Whether you have a MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro, your charger likely has one fatal flaw: the plug. The power adapter needs to connect directly to an outlet, a design that works fine for smaller charging bricks. However, the bigger your MacBook, the bigger the brick, all without changing the design. As such, your massive power adapter needs to hang from the wall, or balance on top of a power strip, fighting against gravity for its life. Obviously, the weight is a major component here. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to prop my power strip up after my MacBook Pro’s charger knocked everything over. The other part of the problem, though, is the plug portion of the charger is removable. When you connect your 10-ton charger to the wall, its mass sometimes pulls the plug right out of the adapter (this has happened to me so many times). Have you ever wondered why the plug is removable? It doesn’t make much sense out of the bo...

Photo : Leonid Sorokin ( Shutterstock ) For a wh ile now, our tech has run on rechargeable batteries, and that’s great‚ until we plug in a device and discover it won’t charge. Alternatives like wireless charging can help, but a dead charging port on any device is no fun. But if the charging port on your iPhone, Android, computer, Switch, or what have you doesn’t seem to be working, there’s an easy fix that might save you a trip to a repair store. M ost “broken” charging ports aren’t actually broken While an uncooperative port can affect any device, the one it affects most, of course, is your smartphone. Whether you have an iPhone or an Android, your phone probably moves in and out of your pockets or purse all day, every day. Along the way, your phone is interacting with a lot of dust and debris, and some of those particles inevitably end up trapped in the port . At first, this won’t cause much of an issue. But over time, dust and debris can build up, to the point where it ...