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Your laptop might be low on sound energy. Fortunately you mentioned that you have a microwave (and I'm assuming that it's working). Just place the laptop in the microwave on high for about 20 minutes. That should be enough time for it to absorb the radiation and convert it into energy for the speakers.

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If that doesn't fix it, here's the download link to Windows 11: Windows 11 Download

The real shitty here is EA.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/466245-battlefield-1942/cheats - apparently there is a different way of doing it.

Before settling on any distro, it's best to perform a diagnostic stress test on your hardware.

Lucky for you there is a distro that is built for stress testing your exact hardware: Puppy Linux!

[Note: stress testing can cause premature malfunction on new hardware... including--but not limited to--a torn jugular.]

That Google link was wrong. It should look like this: www.google.com.

As for your WinRAR problem, RARs come from dinosaurs, and computers are in offices, so just Google "Dinosaur Office" and you should be sure to find it.

You could try virtualbox. Install linux, making a raid out of a bunch of vhd files (you can define them as big as you want, as they only grow as space is actually used). So you can make them several terabytes each, even if you don't have that much space yet, so long as you plan to buy a bigger disk in the future. I'd go with LVM for building the raid instead of mdadm because you can add/remove volumes faster and easier. The vhds don't even have to be on your computer. You could spread them across your network, for near unlimited storage. Then you can use imdisk and devio to make the raid available to windows and mount it as though it were a local native hard disk.

Camilia will calm your CPU down, it will cool your CPU by around 60 degrees. I use this one: https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Camellia-Seed-Oil-Moisturizing/dp/B08M5K3W75

This should be enough for around 5 servings.

Serious: Truncate is a command for creating sparse files, files that exist on your local drive that take up 0 bytes, but claim to be whatever size you want. These are commonly used for VM disk image files, so you can "thin-provision" and over-allocate your storage.

If you have a backup or AV software that doesn't understand sparse files, they will read the entire file. That 8EB file I mentioned (which I have created before for demonstration purposes) would be read for ~2500 years before whatever started scanning it finished.

You can't really chop off a section of the could with truncate. You can build your own cloud with some system like Ceph, and mount that on your machine using its tools and kernel code. It then costs as much as you're willing to spend on hardware and electricity.

sudo gives you root permissions, basically letting you do anything

rm is the command to delete files. the -r flag means "recursively remove the directory and everything underneath it till it's dead", and -f means "don't ask any questions, force delete it all". / is your root directory, approximately equivalent to the C:/ drive. rm -rf / would start deleting everything until it deletes a necessary file, at which point the system crashes. Your linux installation is then screwed.

chmod changes the permissions of a file. The -R flag again means "recursively apply this change to this directory and every file underneath", and 777 is the permission. It basically means "give everyone read, write and execute permissions", and / is again your root directory. This command changes the permissions of every file on your system to be readable, writable and executable by absolutely every user. If you're a server with that apache "nobody" user? Guess what, the ENTIRE internet can do ANYTHING on your machine.

If you want to learn linux, I'd totally advise you grab yourself a copy of Debian, and read the Arch Wiki. I've been using Linux for over 10 years, and just over 12 months ago I switched away from Windows full-time. It was one of the best decisions I've made.

[Serious] have you ever flipped through those gif books? I saw a kid holding a book that showed perfect animations from Star Wars, it's impressive.

I found it: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Scanimation-Iconic-Scenes/dp/0761158464