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I think you just described me exactly. I constantly replay a few specific games but very little grabs my attention like the few I love.
You can change this in Settings > Camera > Formats > choose Most Compatible to change from HEIF/HEVC to JPEG/H.264
EDIT: I use XnViewMP to browse photos and it can convert HEIC to JPG and HandBrake can handle HEVC to MP4 or MKV.
I bought it with the 11th gen board before the 16 existed but now they have me completely hooked on the ultralight super compact system. Hooked to the point that I'll sacrifice graphics settings to play games on it, which works surprisingly well IMO.
EDIT: Games work surprisingly well on the 7840U/780M, not the Intel 11th gen... they work very poorly on the old Intel.
I used Linux Mint Cinnamon on my Framework 13 using the 11th gen Intel and just recently upgraded it to the Ryzen 7840U. It works very well with both. For a nicer display scaling experience I recommend the 2880x1920 display.
In most laptops you can remove the WiFi/Bluetooth card if you are ok with a permanent solution.
I don't do any kind of coding and I'm sure the program is nowhere near as complete as Notepad++, but check out Notepadqq. It appears to be attempting to replicate the Notepad++ experience on Linux. https://notepadqq.com/s/
To elaborate a little on this, if the format you want doesn't have audio you may have to combine two formats. -F lists the formats, -f to choose them. As an example you can choose to combine an audio and video format like this: yt-dlp -f 136+140 [URL]
Shave it. I did when mine started going and the maintenance is super easy. I'd never go back.
At least if still downloads them you can edit them out if it's something you want to save.