Collection
Charging Four Things From One Hotel Socket
The constraint on a trip is sockets and what you are allowed to carry, not battery capacity. Five things that fix it, and the popular answers that just add weight.
4 min read
Power & Charging
Everything needs charging and there is one socket.
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Charging Four Things From One Hotel Socket
The constraint on a trip is sockets and what you are allowed to carry, not battery capacity. Five things that fix it, and the popular answers that just add weight.
Comparison
Travel Extension Lead vs Multi-Port Charger
A hotel room with two sockets, both behind the bed. One of these solves it and the other is the one most people pack — and they are not interchangeable.
4 min read
Guide
Solar Chargers, and When They Are Not the Answer
A folding panel is genuinely useful on a narrow set of trips and disappointing on all the others. A power bank beats it for anything short of days off-grid.
3 min read
Guide
A Cable Roll Instead of a Drawer in a Bag
Every cable in one pouch is a knot by the second flight. What a roll does differently, and the count that matters more than the container.
3 min read
Guide
A Power Bank You Can Actually Fly With
Carry-on only, never checked, and the number that matters is watt-hours rather than mAh. How to work yours out, and what to check before you travel.
3 min read
Other things that might be annoying you
- Warning lightThe light is on and nobody can tell me why.
- A long drive coming upSix hours in the car and I have not thought about any of it.
- Wi-Fi that keeps droppingThe PC is upstairs and the router is by the front door.
- The desk is set up wrongThe screen is too low, the chair is too high, and I have never changed either.
- A screen that is hard to look atGlare across it, or text I keep leaning in to read.
- Stuck at the roadsideSomething failed away from home and I had nothing useful with me.
- Taking a handheld awayCharging it, filling it, and getting it there in one piece.
- A PC that will not startIt was fine yesterday and now nothing happens at all.
- A car that barely movesIt sits far more than it drives, and that is its own problem.
- Nobody can hear me properlyHum, echo, or a microphone that picks up every keystroke.
- Losing work to a power cutA flickering supply, a failing drive, and no backup worth the name.
- Dead batteryThe car sat for a month and now it won't turn over.
- No garage spaceThe car fits, but only just, and nothing else does.
- Car clutterEverything I own is loose in the trunk and rattling.
- Dirty interiorThe interior has grit in places a vacuum cannot reach.
- Bad lightingI cannot see what I am doing under the hood or under the car.
- Lost toolsI own three 10 mm sockets and can find none of them.
- Loud PCIt sounds like a hairdryer the moment a game loads.
- PC runs hotFrame rate drops after twenty minutes and never recovers.
- Cable messBehind the desk is one knot I refuse to look at.
- Cannot drillI rent, so nothing can leave a hole or a mark.
- Nowhere to put itThe flat is full and there is nowhere left to put anything.
- Bag will not closeIt all went in last time and now the case will not shut.
- Everything needs chargingFour devices, one socket, and a flight in the morning.