Imo its understandable since he’s going to have to live in russia for the rest of his life if he doesn’t want to live in a US prison for the rest of his life.

I think most computers have at least that much ram these days, my phone has that much ram.

Qubes OS is pretty secure, everything you do in it is in virtual machines. That includes putting wifi and usbs in separate virtual machines. The root virtual machine is completely separated from everything else so any attackers can’t get access to it. There are also temporary virtual machines that you can use for unsafe stuff.

Aside from UBlock Origin, I use LibRedirect, which automatically redirects you to privacy-respecting front ends of services like Youtube.