What do you mean by privacy? If you mean like other people you may live with/come across having access to your data, the best solution is having an encrypted drive/partition. No DE or standard login is going to stop a determined threat actor from just pulling out your storage device and reading off what’s on there.

43% health?? Sounds like a faulty battery, probably still under warranty if you’ve only had it for a few months (< 1 year).

Warranty instructions: https://frame.work/warranty

Do you have any posts/reading on the win32 additions to the kernel? I vaguely remember something similar being talked about some time ago, but I can’t find anything right now.