Obligatory Technology Connections video. Might help with your dishwasher woes: https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0

Makes me wish something like a literal USB key existed.

You mean something like a Yubikey?

Half-Life and its mods defined my high school years. I have core memories of TFC 2fort with Eminem's "Stan" playing in the background. Of finding a server, adding it to my Favorites, and eventually becoming part of the community.

Valve's eventual inclusion of voice chat elevated the social aspect to another level.

DOOR. STUCK.

Definitely don't defrag regularly because, yes, it will wear out the SSD. However, defragging once will move the files into a contiguous chunk of the partition and allow you greater success at shrinking it.

I seem to remember disabling hibernation and swapfile, then defragging, seemed to significantly increase the chances of success shrinking an active partition.

(Re-enable hibernation/swap after the shrink operation is finished.)

If you mean the "Manually block sleep and screen locking" toggle in the battery icon in the systray, then no, that didn't stop the lid action.

50/6 :( 'Murca!

Such courage! /s