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.

Depending on the use and the size of your graphics card you might be better of trying Gemma 4 12B too.
On my Nvidia 5060 Ti 16GB I can use either Gemma 4 A4B IQ3_M (larger model but highly compressed) or Gemma 4 12B Q8_0 (smaller model but much less compression) and after a night of testing with the Gemma 4 12B Q8_0 I’d say it’s a better helper when it comes to coding but a worse gm for my dnd inspired fantasy world roleplaying adventure.

I imagine your “setup a selfhosted environment” is closer to the first.

Easy setup would be to use koboldcpp + SillyTavern + Gemma 4 26B A4B GGUF of the largest quant your graphics card can fit together with your context.
Remember to setup SillyTavern to allow network connections and create a user and password, default installation is localhost only.
Set the temperature to 0.3 if using IQ3_M, higher quants allow higher temperature, and make sure all the formatting templates inside Advanced Formatting are set to Gemma 4.

Then use either Gemma 4 itself or the free google.com AI to create some “W++ Denze with Horizontal Lines summaries for Gemma 4” of the relevant documentation of the latest version of the home server apps your friends are gonna install.
You should ensure the resulting lorebook entries are no more than 1k tokens each to leave some context for your friends chats, add it to a character card in SillyTavern and set some keywords to allow them to load dynamically and not stay in context memory all the time.

Regarding the character card you can ask Gemma 4 to write that for you too, I find “Write a character card in W++ Denze with Horizontal Lines style for Gemma 4 with this name, personality, attitude and skillset” works well for that.
Then ask it to write a “First message prompt that starts with X, continues with Y and ends with Z for that character card” and you get a first draft to rewrite and paste into the “First Message” of the character card. The first message works as a template that Gemma 4 will imitate when you chat with it. Then simply try the chatbot out before letting others use it.

I find my own Gemma 4 26B A4B IQ3_M works well for practicing hiragana and katakana, discussing programming or troubleshoot existing code or writing a small function but it can’t be expected to write a correct DatabaseService.cs from scratch and stuff like that.

Oh and forget about finding good cards and lorebooks for SillyTavern use online, most users use it for NSFW Roleplaying chats. It is a very easy UI to use to create harnesses for your local LLM though.

I should honestly 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.

Yes and no, your average end user trust the Play Store and the promised security which is why an app once it’s inside can get millions of downloads.

Compare this to trying to get your average user to
a) trust your selfhosted app and
b) succeed in installing it.

Also, I can’t find a single malware that has used f-droid as it’s primary vector.

and like the idea that this system is more secure.

*The false claim
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-gb/blog/labs/malicious-google-play-apps-bypassed-android-security

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.

When the warnings that show that 2/3 of the products from Shein and Temu doesn’t fullfill EU safety standards doesn’t stop people from buying shit then one can hope this at least slows down the consumption of crap by making it more expensive.

Listen to Captain Vimes and save up for proper shoes that last for more than a year or two.

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.

Den första kategorin av undantag rör onlineplattformar som tillhandahålls av vissa aktörer.
Undantagna aktörer är dels så kallade mikroföretag och små företag, dels civilsamhällets organisationer.

Lemmy blir väldigt speciellt att hantera, det är inte en site i sig.
sopuli.xyz är administrerat av en finsk privatperson, inte ett företag alls m.a.o.
lemmy.world har skapat en non profit organisation - https://fedihosting.foundation/about-us/ och hade nog räknats som ett mikroföretag om det inte var en sådan.
programming.dev har jag ingen koll på.

Här är utredningsförslaget
https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2026/06/sou-202635/

Utredningens förslag
Utredningen föreslår att det införs en ny lag som innehåller en åldersgräns för tillgång till sociala medier.
Åldersgränsen är formulerad som att ett barn inte före det år barnet fyller 15 år får ha tillgång i inloggat läge till onlineplattformar som gör det möjligt för slutanvändare att

1. upptäcka, ansluta sig till och kommunicera med varandra, och
2. med allmänheten dela och upptäcka innehåll.

I förslaget ligger också att lagen förses med vissa undantag.
Den första kategorin av undantag rör onlineplattformar som tillhandahålls av vissa aktörer.
Undantagna aktörer är dels så kallade mikroföretag och små företag, dels civilsamhällets organisationer.

Förslaget är alltså att en plattform som annars skulle ha träffats av lagens tillämpningsområde men som tillhandahålls av en sådan aktör inte omfattas av åldersgränsen.
Den andra kategorin av undantag rör onlineplattformar som har ett visst huvudsakligt användningsområde. De huvudsakliga användningsområden som föranleder undantag är att

1. spela dataspel,
2. annonsera om varor eller tjänster,
3. delta i professionella nätverk,
4. utveckla och dela öppen källkod, och
5. lagra och dela information om fysisk aktivitet.

Förslaget är alltså att en plattform som annars skulle ha träffats av lagens tillämpningsområde men som har något av dessa huvudsakliga användningsområden inte omfattas av åldersgränsen.

• https://www.regeringen.se/contentassets/d1b21d5210774bfba9797e08883c9633/sou-2026_35_pdf-a_webb.pdf