this one doesn’t work quite as well without speaking. but

“how do you think the unthinkable?”

“with an itheberg.” (iceberg with a lisp)

I use a virtual machine with all traffic routed through a VPN as it provides far more isolation than a container.

dead ram definitely still happens, yes, but it’s exceedingly rare. I fix hundreds of PCs a year, and I maybe get one or two a year where the root cause is actually bad ram. more often it’s configuration issues or hardware implementation issues, for example the gigabyte x870 boards really don’t like XMP for some reason.

ecc doesn’t really have anything to do with whether a ram stick fails or not, it can help with misbehaving sticks but if a stick is dead it’s dead and ecc can’t help a dead region.

smartctl would be what your looking for even for ssds (although ssds fail quick enough that if smartctl catches something there’s a chance it’s already too late, smartd allows for scheduled tests and I’ve definitely saved data off of ssds because I had daily smart tests running that caught early failure).

I however strongly disagree with the hardware issue. there is no indication that this is hardware (honestly hardware accounts for VERY few issues like this, and RAM failing still happens but is 98% a thing of the past). diagnosing without any logs is a bit of a lost cause, we simply don’t have enough info, hopefully OP updates the post with the output of journalctl from the last boot.

depends on the job. shitty jobs I won’t give two weeks especially if there’s already animosity from management (which has lead to some pretty entertaining quitting stories). most I’ll do for something like that is ask my coworkers if they think they can get by without me (assuming I also liked the coworkers).

if it’s a job I liked, I typically give notice via email and then go and bring it up in person to the recipient as well.