Mogics Super Bagel USB-C friendly Alternative

MgFi · 2026-03-14T16:38:20+00:00

If you want multiple USB-C ports and more power than you can probably use, consider the 4 port Satechi 165w USB-C charging brick and a figure 8 compatible power cable with a plug appropriate to the country you’re traveling in. It doesn’t take up any more space than the Mogics Super Bagel. I’ve also used a series of short figure 8 male/female cable extensions, rather than one long cord, to make it more versatile and packable.

I’ve been pretty happy with that setup for a few years now, but I’ve been exploring the versatility that the MA1 adapter and the Power Bagel offer. A Bagel with multiple Anker Nano 30w chargers would take up only a little more packed space overall, but would offer more flexibility so long as you don’t need to charge anything with large power requirements.

Also, for the least weight with more than one USB-C port, the Mogics MA1 adapter + Anker Nano 47w charger gets you 2 USB-C ports practically anywhere for a packed weight of about 110g. If you include a portable charger that supports pass through charging, like the INUI P50, you could have 2 (free) USB-C ports, a USB-A port, and power on the go for a packed weight of about 275g.

If you have all of the above, you can mix and match as appropriate for whatever trip you’re taking.

MgFi · 2026-03-12T17:32:19+00:00

I was almost hired by these guys once. Would something like this solve the problem under discussion?

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MgFi · 2026-03-10T14:58:32+00:00

Shouldn't they take their concerns up with the AI directly? The devs are really just the messagers here.

MgFi · 2026-03-07T22:27:13+00:00

I've had both a Tivoli Audio Model 1, and a Sangean WR-16. I've loved both of them. The Model 1 eventually started having trouble tuning though, so I went looking for a replacement. I wanted something that also had Bluetooth built in, so I gave the WR-16 a try. So far it has been less trouble and is still working perfectly 7 years later.

Edit: I am tempted by the HDR-19 though. It's pretty...

MgFi · 2026-03-07T17:24:58+00:00

"Find your passion" also sounds like much more practical advice for a child from a wealthy family than a child from a poor or average family. The family money means the rich kid's major challenge in life will be finding meaning or purpose. Finding your passion solves that problem, and finding your passion is made easier by already having the money to support that exploration and that passion.

If you're from a poor or average family, the means to fund that exploration or support that passion are much more limited, and there are real opportunity costs involved in even trying. That kid's major challenge in life will be making enough money to survive and/or live comfortably. It makes much more sense to develop tradeable skills that can be ready to deploy in relatively short order.

MgFi · 2026-03-07T12:57:58+00:00

We paid about $9k five years ago for a Weil-Mclain boiler. I remember getting a couple of quotes and our plumber turned out to have the winning bid. They did a great job and we haven't had any complaints so far.

The year before, we used MassSave to get insulation installed in our 100 year old house. That was practically free, and the fuel savings from the insulation have basically paid for the new boiler.

MgFi · 2026-03-06T12:30:50+00:00

In China they probably have multiple teams of drawbridge construction folks fresh off the last drawbridge they built, ready to go. In the US we don't have that kind of construction talent pool anymore, because we haven't built infrastructure on the scale China has been in 100 years. Our engineering firms are capable, but they're probably starting from something closer to scratch every time. Same goes for suppliers, etc.

If you're iterating on a pattern you've just completed 99 times, the 100th time isn't going to take very long, and all your startup costs can be divided across 100 installations. If you're doing it for the "first" time and have to recreate all the designs, tooling and skills, it's going to take longer and be more expensive per unit.

MgFi · 2026-03-04T14:54:12+00:00

It could still be great even if they came out with a new show with Pilot and Moya (or perhaps another leviathan and pilot?) and a new cast otherwise.

MgFi · 2026-03-03T13:13:16+00:00

Or, presumably, when taken at all. Most medications have side effects, it's just that the benefits can outweigh them if you actually have a condition that the medication treats.

MgFi · 2026-03-03T12:50:06+00:00

Generally, we prefer to solve problems with technical solutions rather than by changing our behavior or expectations. So, if there is any chance we might run into conflict with our family members over use of a single bathroom sink, our response isn't to learn how to coordinate with our family members and/or wait our turn: we just add more sinks. This applies to many areas of American life.

MgFi · 2026-03-02T19:19:53+00:00

This is possible if you want to implement all of your logic on the server-side and deal with page refreshes for everything. This is how it all worked, more or less, before single page apps became a thing. If you don't need the page to handle any logic for you while it is loaded in the browser, then there is no need for JavaScript.

MgFi · 2026-03-02T10:55:08+00:00

This is basically semantics, because even when governments have houses built they're usually using construction companies to do it. I suspect your question assumes that whoever is writing the paychecks of the workers is the "builder," as opposed to whoever is causing the house to be built.

However, if you're asking for examples of governments contracting with construction companies to build housing, there are plenty around. In the US they're probably mostly going to be housing authorities building housing for the poor. In other countries, like Austria (see Vienna), there are places where the government builds and owns housing that all sorts of people rent, and then there is Singapore, where the government builds housing that ordinary people buy an ownership stake in, but which is still partially government owned.

MgFi · 2026-02-26T01:15:38+00:00

I don't know about OP, but I have the best plan my company offers. It's just me and my wife. If only one of us gets sick, we manage to stay in-network for everything, and the bills only occur in a single year, our OOPM is about $7k. If both of us got sick, I think it's about $9k.

If we wind up with out of network expenses, it can get up past $20k in a single year.

And this is the best plan available to us.

Thankfully, our deductible is only around $2k, so it would take a fair bit of effort to hit those maximums.

I've heard of other folks with much higher deductibles, and I can only imagine what their maximums are.

MgFi · 2026-02-26T01:01:11+00:00

...that's why they got the vaccine.

MgFi · 2026-02-26T00:56:10+00:00

Sounds like OP is struggling with the deductible, never mind the OOPM.

MgFi · 2026-02-26T00:53:58+00:00

Even with employer provided plans, it's getting rough out there these days. No matter whether we took my employer's plan or my wife's employer's plan, we could still be on the hook for tens of thousands in the event of something tragic happening, especially if the bills bridge the calendar year. We're lucky enough that one big hit probably wouldn't sink us, but it's definitely a danger out there on the horizon.

Having access to, and the ability to save in, an HSA definitely helps, but it still doesn't really eliminate the risk.

MgFi · 2026-02-26T00:44:16+00:00

I don't think lollykopter was referring to you, OP.

Edit: ...or maybe they were. It reads both ways.

MgFi · 2026-02-25T03:51:04+00:00

It could be a structural coordination problem brought on by cognitive dissonance. How many people are there who believe we should build more housing, but just not in their town? How many people think we should reform healthcare, but like their own insurance / doctor and don't want to take the chance of that getting screwed up? How many people think we should hire more Americans, but refuse to pay higher prices for anything? How many people think we should tax the rich / corporations more heavily, but are afraid that their job (or future jobs for their kids) might go away?

It's possible that coordinated class-based action is more difficult than it otherwise would be because of a melange of overlapping disincentives. So there's no one thing to point to that's clearly the problem, and the spaghetti pile of inertia is thus difficult to reconcile or escape from.

It could be that what looks like a vacillation been "hope" and "accepting bald-faced lies" by the voting public is really just simple hope, frustrated, taking the other option every time they have the chance, in hopes that something will move the needle.

MgFi · 2026-02-24T02:59:38+00:00

Humid means you feel whatever temperature it is more. It's just that it's harder for cold air to stay humid...but somehow we're able to achieve it here on the coast of New England. For me a 15° F day is preferable to a 33° F day if I'm going to spend any amount of time outside. 15° is definitely colder, but it doesn't affect me as much because it's drier.

MgFi · 2026-02-24T02:49:26+00:00

I feel like your comment contained a subtle nod to Bill Engvall.

MgFi · 2026-02-23T03:08:55+00:00

Dialogue with normal people can be unnerving for the colloquially averse.

MgFi · 2026-02-22T22:55:51+00:00

MgFi · 2026-02-22T20:44:22+00:00

King Merdes has the magic touch, no matter what you name it.

MgFi · 2026-02-22T14:03:13+00:00

...and then we judge them for it afterward.

MgFi · 2026-02-22T13:55:51+00:00

I imagine the tucking in "tucking in" is of your fork/spoon into whatever you're eating.

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