Thank you, I will now discount the economic fraction of my not-cheerfulness about dongles by about 70%.

The axe grinding, however, was brought up by Mr Kuhn. This is simply one instance of it, and the economic fraction isn't even the biggest part.

I wish I had only bought three of those tiny things... finally ended up sugruing one of them to the lav mic.

:-) I don't know what a lav mic is. Upon trying to figure out what lav meant my mind went to "lavatory".

Google clarifies: Lavalier(aka Lapel) Mics. I know my mental model should drop my first jumped to conclusion but I find it childishly amusing.

So now I assume you have a lapel microphone specifically set up in your toilet for zoom calls that happen to catch you out.

It's a mic that clips on to your shirt like the ones news reporters use.