Jul 4, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Have you ever been stuck on a problem and instinctively reached out to a real person instead of an AI, and found that was exactly the right call? In the latest episode of the No Compromises podcast…
Um, So one of the things I kind of want to talk about today is I had a really strange scenario last night.
We had a thunderstorm and it knocked out a lot of power.
It did some weird stuff to electronics in my house.
I got to this point where I couldn't turn on my laptop.
Long story short, I just noticed I have a CalDigit dock, and its light on the front of it was not turning on.
And I thought, oh, no, I've blown my dock out or whatever, and I can't connect all my stuff.
And so I unhooked the laptop, take it somewhere else.
It works fine.
Thank goodness.
And so I go through this whole troubleshooting step.
I then told Joel.
I called up Joel on Zoom.
I'm like, hey, I might be a little slow on our work, or I might not be able to do our podcast because my dock isn't working.
I needed to test the power supply and I don't really know how to do that.
Joel, do you have a multimeter? And he kind of helps me and walks me through it.
Okay, cool.
Power supply is good.
I think I'm going to have to buy a new dock, but I'm not sure.
So we'd have to call and I do some more research.
I'm Googling stuff.
I go through Reddit and I have this timer in my head that there's like 15 more minutes left.
Until I have to decide whether I need to buy another dock to get it here tomorrow from Amazon.
Oh, sure.
Um, So one of the things I kind of want to talk about today is I had a really strange scenario last night.
We had a thunderstorm and it knocked out a lot of power.
It did some weird stuff to electronics in my house.
I got to this point where I couldn't turn on my laptop.
Long story short, I just noticed I have a CalDigit dock, and its light on the front of it was not turning on.
And I thought, oh, no, I've blown my dock out or whatever, and I can't connect all my stuff.
And so I unhooked the laptop, take it somewhere else.
It works fine.
Thank goodness.
And so I go through this whole troubleshooting step.
I then told Joel.
I called up Joel on Zoom.
I'm like, hey, I might be a little slow on our work, or I might not be able to do our podcast because my dock isn't working.
I needed to test the power supply and I don't really know how to do that.
Joel, do you have a multimeter? And he kind of helps me and walks me through it.
Okay, cool.
Power supply is good.
I think I'm going to have to buy a new dock, but I'm not sure.
So we'd have to call and I do some more research.
I'm Googling stuff.
I go through Reddit and I have this timer in my head that there's like 15 more minutes left.
Until I have to decide whether I need to buy another dock to get it here tomorrow from Amazon.
Oh, sure.
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