I just use a 3D printed stand with space for an Anker USB hub with PD charging. It has all the connections of the dock apart from ethernet. I haven’t missed having a dock at all. I can use it to sideload apps and roms to the SD, run my portable USB-C external monitor through it, connect a controller to it. It was a lot cheaper doing this than buying the dock.
So, that’s my argument for not getting one ;)
But, it’s a fantasy novel about a fantasy world with fantasy creatures and magic. It’s not real life. I read the books more than once and never felt outraged or upset that a fictional race of elves were being treated badly, because they don’t exist. It’s not real.
I’m all for being anti-slavery and all the other horrendous ways humans treat each other, but the day I feel morally outraged by a series of fantasy novels about a school for magical kids is the day I stop reading fiction at all. I can watch the news and feel that outrage any time I like.
I don’t care what Rowling thinks about any issue, to be honest. I don’t know her, don’t follow her life and am not remotely interested in celeb culture. She may or may not be guilty of all the claims made by the op, I have no idea and don’t care. I just read the books as stories and bought them because they were fictional. If I wanted to know about the moral issues raised here, I wouldn’t be reading Harry Potter novels.
I never once read a passage in the books which made me think about anti-semitism, chattel slavery or any of the other issues raised. I managed to read the books in the same way I do any others of that ilk, by just escaping reality for a while and enjoying the story for what it was.
Try just switching off your outraged brain matter and enjoy fantasy for what it is…fiction. What would outrage me is if I was reading fantasy novels to escape this, often awful, reality and found myself drawn back into all the issues talked about here.
The easiest way to discharge if it only stays on when connected to a USB power source is to use a mobile phone charger, your PC or similar. That kind of source will have enough power to keep the SD on, but won’t charge it fast enough to prevent battery drain. If you have a game running too, it will discharge pretty quickly.