Before opening up or resoldering any switches, I'd short the two pins with something (tweasers or similar) to confirm or rule out the switch itself as the cause.

Ik heb wel een code voor je.

(Edit: code ook daadwerkelijk toegevoegd. Ooit ga ik dat internet en links en zo snappen).

Of course, that filesystem exists today as btrfs.

Which, to be fair, isn't exactly the fasted FS around. I love me some btrfs, but not for the benchmarks.

Muscle memory needs some time, especially for symbol stuff. Don't hesitate to tweak your mappings, I've made some changes at some point which made things a whole lot more workable. I started with Miryoku which was completely unsuitable for the PHP work I was doing back then, to mention something, and moving the number cluster to the right hand rather than left did miracles for my day to day work as well.

ascetics

I think you mean "aesthetics", an ascetic is something quite different. 😛

The layout looks Colemak-ish, so I'd expect the E to be the key labeled 5 on the right half.

Smaller keyboards like this use layers to reuse certain keys, rather than adding more. The idea is to minimize finger/hand/arm movement. Things like choosing a more efficient layout (QWERTY is actuality pretty bad in that regard), using home row mods (so the letter keys under your index fingers double as Shift when held, for example), and so on.

It takes some getting used to, but it actually quickly becomes second nature.

I'm in camp "arrows on hjkl on a layer, home/pgdn/pgup/end right below that", but if you really want them as physical keys, I'd probably stuff them below the pinky cluster, right next to the outer thumb.

That, or maybe something dpad-like on the left edge, close to the H.

Edit: Oh, for clarification: I'm a programmer, as well. I make plenty of use of the arrow keys, so it's not like "eh, let's stuff those on a layer, I never use 'em anyway" or something.

14-year club represent.

No, that was a dress, that came later.

The green wooden paneling is a dead giveaway, that's a fairly Zaanstreek thing.

Not OP, but I've been running TW for... 5-ush years now, I think, and it's been great. Even when I still had Nvidia hardware and sometimes ran into a kernel being too new or whatever it was that made the Nvidia driver shit the bed: roll back to the previous snapshot, wait for a couple of days. Apart from that it's been pretty much rock solid.

The only thing I might switch to, is Kalpa.

Tell your friend that Lidarr can connect to Spotify to get your followed artists, playlists and saved albums.