Running a few services from a raspberry is as good a starting point as any.
Reading official documentation is always a good idea, instead of getting second hand knowledge from youtube:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/os.html
https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/
https://github.com/pi-hole/web/
https://docs.berryaudio.org/getting-started/introduction.html

Regarding storing pictures from your phone, read up on the 3-2-1 backup. Personally I go for NAS + USB Backup + Remote backup at my parents house.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

Immich is immensely popular for photo gallery server use nowadays but it might be too heavy for a raspberry pi, might be better off testing something like https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2

And tlp didn’t help either? Is your model one of those dual battery ones?
I vaguely remember some special consideration there to completely drain the laptop of power. I think you can disable the internal battery in bios somewhere before removing the external battery and the ac charge and then hold the power button for half a minute or so.

You should add this to your OP, it will definitely give you more test pilots. :)

I would
a) Use the reset button to fully reset the ThinkPad using the Emergency Reset Button - this has solved more than one weird hardware error for me in the past.

b) Let the battery discharge completely, or at least to below 10% and then let it charge overnight to ensure it gets completely topped up.

If neither of those helps I would probably unseat the battery and plug it back in again just to check.

Nah, I don’t expect people to research. I just find it weird that they don’t. Both the first link in Googles search and the AI overview of Google explains that question as long as you add anticheat into the sentence.

Last time me and my friends played Call of Duty it was LAN hosted with punkbuster inactive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty_2)

That’s what I find weird, no matter if it’s a vacuum cleaner, a game or a pair of jeans of course I’m gonna research the product (and the company producing it) before I buy.

A self-hosted matrix server (https://stateofsurveillance.org/guides/advanced/matrix-element-self-hosting-guide/) would be what I trust the most.
Signal is what I try to get friends to use instead of Whatsapp and FB Messenger.

Searching the www and checking the universal android debloaters .json list.
https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/blob/main/resources/assets/uad_lists.json

The weird thing is that people actually buy and play the games that requires them.

You’ve removed Samsung apps that include stuff to optimize touch and audio among others. Unless you feel that touch/display/audio is bad/wrong then I imagine you can ignore the log spam.

These two are the probable apps to reactivate to remove the Press Timeout Func spam:
com.samsung.android.game.gos (Game Optimizing Service) and com.samsung.android.lool (Device Care)

The cs35l43 is an Audio Amplifier (https://www.cirrus.com/products/cs35l45) so I imagine you have some “Samsung Sound” app or similar that you removed.

The SDE_0 mipi_clk_timing things point towards missing some display frequency info, so if you feel as if the display update rate acts weirdly then that could be the reason. No idea what samsung app you need to get it working agian.

I can agree that an old and buggy version of a game is no fun. But that is as true of Windows versions as Linux versions.

You seem to have much worse luck when starting linux native games than I though. I have no problem with Factorio, Oxygen Not Included or Kingdoms and Castles which I think are the only linux native games I got installed at the moment.
The thing I find much more frequently is that a game released on GOG doesn’t receive the patches and dlc that the developer release on Steam. I always have to verify that a developer actually support their GOG release as well as Steam before buying.

Honestly the thing I feel that kids have in their corner that is really great is a lack of experience.
The kind of awe that I felt when I started up Starcraft or Diablo for the first time just isn’t there now, I have too many reference points from earlier games to get that “new and awesome”-feeling from most games anymore.

New chinese DRAM makers like CXMT are already being used to create DDR5 RAM. They will keep growing production until the prices fall.
I think we’ll see falling prices sometime late next year to be honest.

It’s honestly the same as with Windows - search engines and manuals.
When you get stuck explain what you want to do, what you’ve tried and what guides/manuals you’ve used and you’ll get good responses from most of the linux communities.

Nah, but there should be a BIOS/UEFI firmware update available and those are always nice to keep up with.
If Secure Boot is the security guard at the entrance then updating the BIOS/UEFI gives him the latest rulebook and will make the process simpler if you decide you want Secure Boot in the future.
The update can also have other fixes that you want.

your source aint a source. Source plz?

There are ton of great selfhosted tools for tts and similar interfaces.
I used https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox to make my own voice read my epubs, albeit with an american accent which I definitely don’t have in real life. It was close enough to put the voice in the uncanny valley according to my wife.

I think most end users will go for a cloud app or website for their needs though, playing around with self-hosting isn’t for everyone.

While it is a bit of work to rename the files that would still be my recommendation. I find jellyfin to be a great match for my anime that way.

The big three producers refusal to expand will hurt them a lot, chinese producers like cxmt got a great way in and have already started producing dram that works for ddr5 6000mhz.