Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

On 2025-06-27 00:06, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-26 17:34, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-26 01:51, Carlos E.R. wrote:

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This isn't about whether someone wants to use these features, or whether
they're important to a specific user. It's about the objective fact of what
the physical hardware allows the device to do.
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Think of it like a car. A car with a tow hitch has the capability to tow a
trailer. A car without one doesn't. Even if someone never tows a trailer,
the car with the hitch still possesses that extra capability that the other
one lacks. It's not about whether they use it, but whether the inherent
functionality is present.

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A tow hitch has the capability to damage greatly another car when reversing in a parking, and you have to pay expensive damages. So, it makes parking more difficult and dangerous.

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What's ironic here is that there are essentially no trucks sold today that actually have a hitch.
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The have a receiver that the buyer can use to ADD the actual hitch, and those hitches can be of multiple types.
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Just like you can use the USB port of a smartphone for multiple purposes.
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:-

 Yes, that's nice. I was rather thinking of normal cars that can tow a caravan. Normal cars don't come with those receivers. I don't know if they can be installed.
 

They can be...
It very much depends on demand for a particular vehicle and how heavy a trailer you want to tow.
To my shock, even my BMW 135i (the one that Arlen insists I don't have 🙂) has a receiver you can get for it:
<https://www.curtmfg.com/part/11184>