Your first mistake was buying anything Samsung.
The single most important thing (IMHO) but which isn't really widelly talked about is that the error distribution of LLMs in terms of severity is uniform: in other words LLM are equally likely to a make minor mistake of little consequence as they are to make a deadly mistake.
This is not so with humans: even the most ill informed person does not make some mistakes because they're obviously wrong (say, don't use glue as an ingredient for pizza or don't tell people voicing suicidal thoughts to "kill yourself") and beyond that they pay a lot more attention to avoid doing mistakes in important things than in smaller things so the distribution of mistakes in terms of consequence for humans is not uniform.
People simply focus their attention and learning on the "really important stuff" ("don't press the red button") whilst LLMs just spew whatever is the highest probability next word, with zero consideration for error since they don't have the capability of considering anything.
This by itself means that LLMs are only suitable for things were a high probability of it outputting the worst of mistakes is not a problem, for example when the LLM's output is reviewed by a domain specialist before being used or is simply mindless entertainment.
Indeed. Any online store can go under or enshittify.
If you want to stay safe with GOG, download the offline installers for your games and archive them. If you don't you're running the risk of losing some or all of it.
The rule "best avoid situations where you give power to some big company (for whom you as an individual customer are basically a nameless bacteria) over something you care about" is general, not Steam specific.
Fortunatelly GOG has DRM-free offline installers available for download as standard, Steam does not make that option available - at best you can copy and zip existing installations of Steam games and hope for the best (some will work, some will not), and that is a "hack" rather than official supported.
The point being that Steam could make something like DRM-free (or at least phone-home-DRM-free) offline installers available - at least for games whose developers/publishers are willing - and mark that as a feature in the game page in their store for those games, but they have chosen not to do so and remain steadfast in that choice: they purposefully keep customers dependent on them of enjoy their purchases and we're all expected to just trust them, now and forever.
As I said, 4 decades in gaming and Tech have taught me you can't trust large companies forever.
Get a Mini-PC and put some Linux distro and Kodi on it.
Or even better, get one of the many LibreELEC supported devices (including, as somebody mentioned, a Raspberry Pi 5) and put LibreELEC on it (which is a pared-down Linux with Kodi).
Personally after maybe a decade running successive generations of TV Media Players to play my growing video file collection on my TV, on my latest upgrade I ended up going down the Mini-PC with Linux and Kodi on autostart route (as I used it also as a home server) and am very satisfied with it, though if I wanted to just use it as a Media Player I would've gone with LibreELEC and on of the various ARM SBCs they support (maybe the Pi, maybe something cheaper).
There really is no reason to use closed commercial solutions for this.
Edit: If all you do is consume media on it via Kodi, you can use a remote like this one so it's the same usage experience as with a commercial device, just without the enshittification.
The idea that being a "slut" is a character flaw is seriously backwards prudish moralistic shit that's so long in the tooth that it's the kind of shit you would hear in 50s.
Her husband is dead, so if she's fucking other people, there isn't even the ethical and moral consideration of by doing so she might (unless they were open with each other about it) be betraying a person she had commited to be faithful to, because that person is no more and is not going to get hurt by it.
So the whole thing is some fucked up regressive crap for moralist types with the social age of a child, even before one looks into the sexism of such last century moralism being mainly applied to women and seldom to men.
Billionaire fanboyism has got to be the stupidest most sheepish behaviour imaginable - possibly even worse than looking up to celebrities who are famous for being famous - because billionaires are literally hoarding money which could be way more useful to just about everybody else in the World.
Mind you, at least before Elon's Nazi Reveal people still had an excuse (if seriously flimsy and mainly self-deluded, considering his earlier "tunnel submarine pedo comments" bullshit), but at this point everybody into Tech should've already learned the lesson.
however 20 years are more than enough time to catch up
I suggest you read about the Network Effect in markets.
It's not at all easy to reverse the market share of a business which benefits from a dominant market position in a market were such effects are strong, even when they turn complete shit (example: Twitter), which Valve hasn't.
PS: A "20 years made no difference" example: Microsoft and Windows, with which a literally free product - Linux - competes.
Yeah, well, somebody is going to inherit his share of ownership, and even if he goes out of his way and sets up a Foundation for the purpose of preserving the founder's strategical vision for the company that will inherit his share, such Foundations tend to over time end up subverted and doing the very opposite of what the founder would've wanted.
Great customer friendly companies turning to shit when the founder dies is the kind of thing that happens all the time.
Best avoid situations were your shit is hostage to the whims of a big company for whom you as an individual customer are irrelevant.
I avoid buying from Steam and prefer GOG when I can because I don't really want to have continued access to my games collection be dependent on Gabe eating his veggies, avoiding saturated fats and doing at least a 30m walk a day to keep the risk of a heart attack low and look both ways before he crosses a road so as not to be run over by a car.
In almost 4 decades as a gamer and a techie I've seen plenty of good companies turn into evil companies and start to leverage whatever dependencies customers had on them to pretty much blackmail them into paying more, sometimes after the founders died, others when the founders cashed out or just lost interest in managing the company's direction and yet others because they were evil all along and just hid it whilst they built their customer base - enshittification isn't a XXI century thing, what's XXI century about it is that many companies nowadays already have it as part of their mid and long term strategy from the start.
Best avoid situations where you give power to some big company (for whom you as an individual customer are basically a nameless bacteria) over something you care about, unless you have no other choice, even if at the moment they're basically a benevolent dictatorship.
Better safe than sorry.
Maybe the really unusual thing which made it worth mentioning the "man named Kim" in that group is that out of 200 Koreans there was only one man named Kim?
Don't really know about the HDMI cec, but I use one of these remotes which works perfectly with Kodi (it seems to just work like a wireless keyboard that just sends keypresses for shortcut characters corresponding to the function of each button, and those shortcuts are some kind of standard that Kodi supports, so this kind of remote - that also works for Android stuff - works fine with Kodi).
The only quirk it has versus the remotes that come in commercial solutions is that whilst the Power button in the remote will switch the Mini-PC OFF, it won't switch it back ON (for the obvious reason that it uses a USB dongle and the PC when switched OFF won't recognize input from the dongle).
I first got one which had even more buttons (also working fine with Kodi), but the remote's build quality was shit and it didn't took long for some of the button on that one to stop working reliably.
This one has been working fine for about a year now.
I do have a keyboard and mouse attached to that Mini-PC because it doubles up as home server and once in a while I have to do something on it which is more easilly done directly there with a UI rather than remotelly on the command line via SSH (or I simply don't want to boot my main PC to access the Mini-PC remotelly), but to just consume media via Kodi nothing else beyond that remote is needed.