How did you format the USB drive? I could never get a usb to boot on my Surface Go unless it was made in Rufus using Windows. I believe you need to format the USB (with no iso) as an unbootable disc with fat32 and GPT and THEN put the iso you want on it. (Two separate operations on the same USB stick.)
There's also a custom Linux Kernel just for Surfaces that you can use for better driver compatibility.
Edit: I see you mentioned Ventoy. I got some ISOs to work with it, but most didn't. Then again, I couldn't get some ISOs to work with Rufus either.
This CDC article about a study from the 90s looked at 90 children who had ingested cigarette butts. Although some had to be hospitalized, all recovered fully within 12 hours.
SE USA. A cashier who doesn't want small talk here is rare. I've even had small talk happen at Aldi's. I didn't know they were trained to not do that, as the other poster said.
You might enjoy this book. It's like dictionary of random slang words from around the world, with different chapters based on categories.
Personally, I was a little disappointed because 99% of the definitions are just one sentence or sentence fragment. I was hoping to find out a little more about the origins of more of the words and maybe a little of the culture behind them.
If you have an account, you can tell it things about yourself. I used my boss's account for a project at work (felt gross). I made the mistake of saying "good morning" to it one day, and it proceeded to ask me if I was going to do (activities related to my boss's personal life - and the details were accurate). I was thinking, "why does he tell it so much about himself?"
If you know the model of your motherboard, you could look up the user manual. Then you don't need to open it to see if you have two slots. Also, I don't know your setup. If you have a slot for a physically bigger hard drive, then it might be a good idea to get a bigger storage drive as your second drive. If you like Linux, then reinstall it to your main drive and keep the second drive as storage drive.
You guys are actually using chat GPT?