Your machine is UEFI, which means your usb stick must be formatted in gpt. Ventoy defaults to mbr which means lagacy bios. It is just 3 mouse click setup.

Try again. Because it is the best method. I just updated 2,5 years old Ventoy stick without any issues without re-formatting.

No. It goes off when I’m using it actively. I’ve never had any issues getting back from hibernate.

I don’t follow him but in this particular blog post he’s 100% right. Why Linux Foundation funds the Metaverse at all?