ram can be used to heavily compensate for slow read speeds and can make slow memory leaks less of an issue, also with that much you probably don’t need a swap file/partition.

it might also be a cable that doesn’t transmit power

exactly the worst time for it too fail. if it failed only when you treated it perfectly there would be almost no issue as you could just replace it. A good system should only ever rely on basic competence for things that instincts will remind the human to do (food and water) and not break down when the person is in a depression spiral.

unless it lasts more than 100 years it could reasonably fail within someone’s life. Nuclear energy is nice because it is more or less the only energy source that can do this.

it’s a death by a thousand cuts situation, more friction to use a local account, less convenience in accessing rarely used settings (most recently I was trying to help someone change a setting located in the advanced power management control panel thing), more pressure to use edge, continuing to shove one-drive down our throats, copilot, implementing features that knowingly make third party tools work significanly less well without proper customization to fix it, weirdness around Multi-Display setups on laptops, the maps app getting worse at giving directions.