I looked at two Dell laptops and a Geekom mini PC, all bought in Germany, and they all have the SS symbol.
Search for /run/user/1000/gcr/ssh on the Internet. I’m on my phone and didn’t find the solution, but I’m sure you’ll find it.
Did you try to reduce the brightness of your monitor?
How many decimal places would you like to see? I think it’s pretty normal to get only one, see e.g. https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2021-09-26-BT-DE/index.shtml
This. OP, get an M.2 NVME SSD in 2280 or 2260 size. Then you can add a SATA drive later, when/if you need it.
Btw there’s a movie about that: The Age of Adaline.