

Shot in the dark, but is your SSD running hot? Like actually burn-your-skin hot? I recall a few years ago on Mint and on a similar generation Lenovo laptop I had an issue with Mint not managing the power consumption of the drive.
sudo hdparm -B /dev/device
sudo hdparm -C /dev/device
(1) Only minor involvement from what I can see.
(2) A broken clock is right twice a day. So long as the car doesn’t require a Facebook account, I’m happy.