The battery and hard drive are an easy upgrade. Linux runs great on it. A cheap one goes for $100 on eBay.

https://youtu.be/ipJceL253Fo?si=CaHtN9mqVD0hye-J

Here’s an 11” Air w/ Ubuntu. Pros & cons…

Keep in mind the 64GB is eMMC internal storage while the others (256,512) are NVMe SSD.

eMMC is considered more of an outdated storage option. You’ll probably stick a microSD in (if you only have 64GB) so maybe it’s a moot point.

I’d add a 2nd Pi-hole (sounds like you have one already?) for redundancy.

TF1, Q3 arena - at least for multiplayer.

Ditto for Louisiana, it was always “well at least we aren’t Mississippi “.

If we lose Lenny we still have Carl.