Thanks for the comparison! I'll try to buy a better DisplayPort cable. Maybe I can live with the current machine if at least the desktop is 5120x1440@60.

I got a new screen. It's a Samsung Odyssey 5120x1440 ultra wide.

My current laptop can only make it work at 5120x1440@30 and Factorio runs at 10-20 FPS.

It is an HP Elitebook 830 G6 and has an "Intel Core i5-8365U CPU", no dedicated graphics card and 16GB of RAM.

How plausible is it to get a ...

Yeah, there was uncommon Space Platform Foundation in the inventory of the space platform.

When I selected Space Platform Foundation from "my" inventory (pressing E), placing it down would remain as ghosts and would not start construction, no matter if I specifically set the quality to Uncommon in ...

For me, an Uncommon Starter Pack created an Uncommon Platform just fine but it also resulted in Uncommon scaffolding (or whatever it's called) and I could not figure out any way to place that down. Had to get normal stuff with a second rocket.