I live in northern Europe in a very wooden house

I'm also curoious how bad of a computer OP has if it's unable to run a VM

I was eating candy pipes into the 2010s

I've never seen a Ram in real life, but knowing the size of a V70 pretty well that thing is HUGE

Looks like they work on Thunder, just disabled by default

These are fairly common on railroads so they can't be too bad on maintenance

If you haven't tuned stuff yet, I'd start here. It's a great guide to tuning a lot of things

I had a Razer Blackwidow keyboard, lasted only like 6 years before the switches started dying. Or it got into a cult. Sometimes pressing k would type out kkk.

Alsa is the very base of the Linux audio system. Pipewire and pulseaudio run on top of it. Back before pulseaudio it was directly used by software

Very brave not to use brims on those

And sudo itself has existed for over 40 years

1280x1024 is really not that pdd for an old LCD. And yes,to me that looks like an LCD instead of a CRT. Way too flat and matte for a CRT.