Running Windows is officially supported by Apple, yes most guides use bootcamp to set it up, but you should be able to create an install drive like a normal PC and boot from it by holding Option/Alt as you press the power button. Mac's usually just use EFI like any modern PC under the hood.
Looks like 2x 4 pin fan headers:

But yeah I've got an AliExpress X99 board, which threw all sorts of hardware errors, had no fan speed control (100% all the time), no working hwmon sensors, and I ended up buying a used Supermicro board instead.
Your description is mildly confusing to read, could you provide a list of commands? You can check history for this.
Sometimes APT can auto install recommended packages, adding --no-install-recommends disables this temporarily.
Edit: Also you're using PopOS which is Ubuntu based, usually using Debian packages isn't an issue on Ubuntu, but sometimes it is, and something like docker should have an Ubuntu version.
Most of a QR Code is redundant data so it's still possible you can decode it, and the positioning marks are still there, but you'd probably have to remake the timing marks along the left, also idk how alignment marks work on a QR this big since some would be missing too (edit: actually only one and a half are gone).
He actually reminds me of Ben Doyle, who does write fairly interesting YouTube videos for Half as Interesting.

Edit: I'm sorry if you find this offensive or anything, just wanted to point it out.
On the ISO keyboards I've seen, the enter key has way more than double the surface area than ANSI, so it's definitely not 'just rotated 90 degrees'. Also these people probably grew up with ISO and struggle with ANSI, just like you probably grew up with ANSI and struggle with ISO.
This guy still maintains it87: https://github.com/frankcrawford/it87
I've was using his for years on my old motherboard, since the mainline it87 didn't play nicely.
Can also confirm I do not get ads/promotions from Google Wallet, and Google Pay isn't an app anymore, so maybe you should make sure you have a legit version. I only get the you just paid notifications, which I would want to get.
Can you show an example of the notifications you're getting?
If you've got some free time and a spare computer, pihole with recursive DNS, it blocks ads and queries the root DNS servers itself (requires some extra set up though).
Other services like Quad9 are good for networks other than your home though.
Like the other guy said, they're probably not doing DPI to actually check for XMPP, so if something like portquiz.net:5222 loads, then you could host a VPN on the same ports as XMPP and have unrestricted internet.
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Probably way too late now, but if it was a proper kernel panic, it should've saved the dmesg in the kernel's pstore which saves to either ACPI or EFI storage (depending on BIOS or UEFI), which systemd then extracts to
/var/lib/systemd/pstore/on next reboot.