ah wow, finally living the MacBook One lifestyle. one of the two ports on my M1 Air fully stopped working. I have the replacement port assembly from iFixIt but can't remove the old ones from the model, so it's dongletown from here on out!

(i have endlessly scrubbed through the part replacement videos, and there's one magical second where everyone goes "and pop out the old board" and it just, like, comes out. wild if true)