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So, this is a ~15 year old laptop?
The first two things that immediately come to mind when you're kernel panicing is bad ram, and bad cpu temperatures.
Thermal paste doesn't last forever, and it's worth checking if your CPU or GPU are overheating, and repasting if so.
And, as always, a memtest is a quick and easy step to rule that out - I'd say half the "weird crashes" I've ever seen ends up being bad ram and well, at least it's cheap and easy to replace?
This is not a malfunctioning hardware thing. I faced the same issue for a few days on silverblue, where my 2 year old zen3 laptop would slow down to a crawl and eventually the gnome-shell would freeze. Somehow it resolved itself somewhere between kernel and gnome-shell + mutter updates