discovering that chromescast ultra come with a power brick with built-in Ethernet jack (on the power adapter body! down where your power board and Ethernet likely is already!) is making me angry that nobody else is building a general purpose USB PD charger like that

like there are “docks” yes but they’re bulky, expensive and often have a second box which contains the power stuff, I’m talking a wall wart with laptop-class PD out, and a downstream Ethernet and maybe a couple USB ports, to chuck behind the couch

@Fuego yep, that’s exactly the kind of has-a-secondary-power-brick, stuck-30cm-from-the-laptop thing I *don’t* want!

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