In both these cases, dd serves no real purpose. It’s purely a superstitious charm trying to ensure safe passage of the data. You can see how silly this is when you replace dd with the functionally equivalent cat: cat /dev/sda | pv | cat > /dev/sdb
Cool! Next time, use Balena Etcher instead of Rufus
Edit:
I remember for sure that there was a wiki page that said not to use these tools because they modify the image (I think Rufus extracts the image to a FAT FS?).
However, the Ubuntu wiki now reads:
Rufus
Rufus is the tool in Windows that is recommended officially by Ubuntu. A tutorial is available from here.
I'm using a pretty plain config, with nvim-lspconfig and mason-lspconfig