Valve releasing Proton.
FrostyPolicy
I use that myself though haven't sent a sms/mms in like > 10 years. Anyhow FOSS > stock spyware any day. The fossify project has many other useful tools as well.
Under GDPR this kind of data collection and sharing HAS to be opt-in i.e. with an informed consent. You can't just bury it in your TOS and/or privacy policy. The user has to be explicitly shown what they are collection, on what basis they are doing it and how they are using it, then give the user the choice to accept or decline that, and they have to respect that decision.
Best Fallout game ever.
Here's what I got when I upgraded: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Kn3hsL. In addition I have two sata ssds (1 TB & 2 TB) for data storage. It's similar to yours. For me performance was the priority. Doing most of my gaming on Linux.
Edit: As the ram in my build are expo models they run at 6000 MHz. No instabilities.
I'd say wait a few days to see if glibc-eac-bin
gets updated. Could the name refer to easy anti cheat perhaps? The glibc
is the official library that comes with Linux distros.
In a country with good consumer rights, this would be a valid reason to return it and get a replacement or refund: It’s no longer offering functionality that was advertised and that you paid for as part of the purchase price.
In the EU this would probably be a no-brainer.
You won’t get rid of google tracking you on Youtube or Gmail,
For gmail that's true (one should use something else anyhow). For youtube you can use an alternative frontend like NewPipe to avoid tracking.
If you care about privacy you should use a trustworthy paid email. They even aren't that expensive. You can get them as low as 1 € / month.
You can basically disable most Google tracking though a good DNS that blocks that traffic.
So only most but not all. Therefore it's not private if there's any tracking. Thus a de-googled version is the only option.
If there's tracking it's not private.
Have you tried Okular?