everything has trackers, even those APs or wifi routers flashed with 3rd party firmware (openwrt, ddwrt, etc). If OP is willing to spend time on doing packet tracing or even the most simple one like a setting up a localized dns server/sinkhole, OP might be amazed what lights up.

Xfce

https://xfce.org/download

Steel wool and a water bucket or running water

Why? Are they still trying to revive firewire?

“Disposable” electronics

I hope they would include addon sideloading as well

Opensuse has GUI frontend that controls almost all the system settings called YaST, why dont you give it a try