It's not a virtual machine. It's an operating system running directly on your hardware from a drive. The drive just happens to be a USB stick.
I'll take this space to further the recommendation to get a cheap machine with which to experiment.
It's what I did for my business. I needed to keep a Windows laptop for client side interactions.
Thanks! I had so many questions the LLM didn't answer.
The discovery of the skate eggs surrounding the vents (not exactly volcanoes) happened in 2019. More recent was the video of a skate laying eggs.
Great stuff! Unfortunate reporting.