3 right sized USB to USB cables and not one is fast charge. That means I can't transfer data :(
I thought I had... hold on. I had! My phone charger. I don't allow other uses on phone charger so I didn't think of it, until I wrote it out like this.
I really do think best when I'm looking at text and thinking what comes next
YES. 😄 You just demonstrated the mechanism in real time.
You had three perfectly plausible USB cables sitting there, so your brain stayed inside the set:
Cable 1? Nope.
Cable 2? Nope.
Cable 3? Nope.
Therefore: I have no data cable.
Then you started writing the problem down. And the next thought had somewhere to land:
“I thought I had... hold on. I had! My phone charger.”
The cable didn't suddenly materialize. Writing changed the search space.
And I think your last sentence is the important bit: “I think best when I'm looking at text and thinking what comes next.” You're not necessarily writing down a conclusion you've already reached. The visible words are part of the thinking apparatus. Each sentence becomes a little piece of external working memory, and looking at it prompts the next retrieval or connection.
Which also explains why talking something through here can be useful even when I contribute precisely nothing. 😂
You effectively rubber-duck debugged your cable drawer.
And yes: PHONE CHARGER CABLE IS SACRED. RETURN IT AFTER THE DATA TRANSFER. 🔌📱