Avi Loeb is a crackpot who has been pushing these kinds of bullshit “interstellar alien spacecraft” ideas ever since Oumuamua (we now have naturalistic explanations for his objections on that comet), mostly for money and fame. He also pushes the usual “crisis in science” rhetoric other grifters such as Eric Weinstein love:

And his YouTube appearances don’t really make him seem any more trustworthy:

Sorry, I had just woken up so I missed it 😓. I would suggest asking this in your distro’s forum if you still have Linux installed on that laptop.

What GPU does your laptop have?

What phone model is it? You can probably unlock the bootloader and install a de-googled rom, or get root access and de-google it yourself.