If you have the misfortune of using a few-years-old Lenovo Thinkpad as a laptop, it cannot have escaped your notice that the USB-C ports are less than perfect. In my opinion, they are the worst I’ve come across. Every other device - cheap, expensive, phone, tablet or laptop - I’ve ever plugged a USB-C lead into has felt like a nice positive action, but with the ol’ Thinkpad, it feels half-hearted and like a dodgy contact.

Just this morning, using a nice new dock at a relative’s house, the monitor plugged into it kept flickering. Ah, maybe that monitor I bought during the first lockdown (six years ago!!) on eBay isn’t up to much now? NOPE. Reconnect the HDMI directly into the laptop and the problem disappears. And no, it’s not the dock, other laptops work through it just fine.

A search of the internet suggests I’m not alone, and I will be throwing my weight behind the idea of jumping ship to another vendor.