Three midnight calls for a loose screw? Sounds like he needed a therapist, not a handyman.

Feel that on the humidity thing... my last batch totally spread out in the summer heat.

Ugh I ran into this same thing last month lol. I switched my scans to weekly instead of daily and it cut the power drain in half honestly. Also check if you're running Windows Defender alongside another antivirus, because that doubles up for no reason. The built in stuff is way lighter than most third party programs now.

Thank god we don't have to mess with solder anymore.

My buddy swore by his spreadsheet until his notebook caught a billing pattern his software missed.