Past me was definitely careless. Current me—doubtful, or at least I’d like to think I’d have learned to be nicer to ports… > I touch the chassis with my thumb

Past me was definitely careless. Current me—doubtful, or at least I’d like to think I’d have learned to be nicer to ports… > I touch the chassis with my thumb and index finger around the USB, and kind of roll my fingers so they put pressure against the chassis This doesn’t work when you have two ports in close proximity and one of them is occupied. In that scenario I’d have to either lift the laptop in order to squeeze the connector from top & bottom while removing (this option requires not being exhausted or lazy) or pull on a cable a bit further away from the connector (though I do it gently nowadays, pushing with another finger against the chassis for at least some balance).