Tracking issue: Updating golangci-lint

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This is a tracking-issue to update golangci-lint to a newer version - this is just to track which errors has to be fixed that comes up with the newer version of golangci-lint, v1.43.0.
The new update seems to catch more errors, which is always nice to have.

• Somehow update the existing installs of golangci-lint with e.g. gitea CI, otherwise it will be continue using v1.37.0 (Update golangci-lint in Makefile #17647)
• Fix the errors that present with the newer version of golangci-lint.
  • SA4023 errors from staticcheck (Fix nil checking on typed interface #17598)
  • offBy1 errors from gocritic (Fix offBy1 errors #17606)
  • badCall errors from gocritic (Remove unnecassary calls to filepath.Join #17608)
• Update Makefile to download the newer version by default (Update golangci-lint in Makefile #17647)
• Remove golint as linter, as it's been deprecated (Remove golint as linter #17609)
• Check if we can add new added linters (Enable new golangci-linters #17610)