The reasons for non-US should be obvious.

Well they’re obviously not so maybe you can enlighten me.

Where do I even start with this?

1. Privacyguides.org exists for this purpose.
2. Why non-US?
3. This document is hosted on a US-based tech monopoly website, completely unnecessarily. It’s just a markdown document.
4. A lot of these suggestions are just bad. Deepseek? Is possibly the least private service on the web. I realize you can self-host it but that distinction is imperative and yet omitted.

I looked for a long time and never found any that didn’t have cloud connections requirements. So I settled for a “dumb” one that has automatic hot/cold switching.

What the heck is a boiler?

Don’t let your dreams be dreams

Signal

Definitely not.

Not that many people use email much anymore

Where do you live, because I want to go there immediately.

Any advice/links for a beginner

you can start installing Proxmox

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