rotopenguin
They're cheap because the battery is just about old enough to become a danger pillow.
Raspberry pi imager is supposed to be pretty good
Betterest is pv image.img > /dev/sdx
A lot of times I start out with Normal difficulty, and a game eventually escalates its difficulty past what I am capable of delivering. At which point I find that the only way to change the difficulty is to start over, so I uninstall it.
The Blackwell series, West of Loathing, Talos Principle II, To The Moon series.
You can play it at "accurately model the thermal vibration of molecules" framerates.
What's even funnier is "14.39% of players have gotten this far before uninstalling the game and forgetting about it forever"
When somebody tells you "fuck off, I don't want your business", believe them.
My solution is "have a large game collection, and move on to the next game". The odd bad game will likely get better in a future version of Wine. Proton 9-something even picked up support for some of the fussier Japanese VNs (but not well enough for IMHHW, alas).
I probably have the same Envy as you. It is just an unreliable piece of shit. Open it up and see if it is full of little metal chips, which is how HP "deburrs" the holes on the bottom metal plate.