Keeping your PC clean certainly helps. Most of my life I dealt with either main frames or servers at work. I remember walking into a computer room at a major bank and the tech popped one of the floor panels off only to see a mass of cables. If a line failed they just ran another cable. lol.
The last 8 years we moved to Workday and the cloud. I'd check the weather while waiting for a response from WD.
My wife and I were both working from home during Covid via VPN and I needed more horsepower and moved over to fiber optic and a Netgear wireless router. I hate a slow computer and my router lets me switch channels on the fly.
I haven't been to my bank in a couple of years but I need to go in and cash in my spare change.