He's a greedy little shit who'd rather run the entire platform into the ground for a buck than do anything useful with his life.
He could've done great things. He could've gone down in history shoulder to shoulder with some of the big guys, instead, he's been a snivelling backstabbing little fungus from day 1.
There's some countries that accept it as payment fairly widely, and a couple that have even properly adopted it iirc.
In general though, no, but it's certainly usable globally and would get around OP's problem if the recipient accepts it. And if OP can be bothered with the hassle of learning about it.
There's also cryptocurrency. Not as invisible as many would have you believe, especially when KYC checks are involved, but there are definitely ways to stay hidden with it, by choosing certain exchanges, transfer methods, and currencies.
Not as straightforward of an answer as OP is probably hoping for though, and it also depends heavily on the recipient of the money.
I totally agree, I just cba. I have too much going on in my life to start from scratch like that again, and windows is just easy now. I hate the whole drm model, but like most people, I'll live with it unless Linux finally becomes an easy, viable alternative that's supported to the same degree as windows and feels just as easy to use.
Sounds like you've already answered your own question.
It might die. If it does, it's not a super big deal. You have backups. You don't like creating unnecessary e-waste.
As gets have said, crystal disk info can help detect any existing problems, but it can't predict the future if something happens suddenly. So it can be a good indicator, but don't assume it's 100%.
Prime gaslighting opportunity right there
I hadn't used FB for quite some time, when I finally tried to log in again, they wanted me to confirm who I was first with real ID.
Not to make a new account, just to access my existing account, of which I know the password, security answers, and could confirm ownership via my registered email account.
And that was the final nail in the coffin.
Fuck. No.