No, Wine Is Not an Emulator.

Yes, it does.

They might write to faster storage first, then dump to slower larger storage afterwards

Yes, for ages. What a weird question though. How are you set up?

Everything gets used by bad actors. Internet, cars, roads, kitchen knives, bicycles, hoodies, … You still use these because they’re handy and useful. If criminal acitivity means to not use things, we’d use very little. I wouldn’t think too much about it.

Just bought 2 sticks for 469€ (32GB DDR5). Price might still go up, maybe 499 per year would have been the better choice, we’ll see in a year I guess.