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  Preaching to the choir here buddy

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  I have a desktop PC with Linux on it, wired Ethernet only that I can unplug, and a gun in my night stand in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.

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  It's sort of a loaded question. Depends on threat model and what you're trying to accomplish. Apple is frequently the "good enough... I guess" privacy and security choice, believe it or not, but heavily skewed towards security. And at the end of the day, iPhone privacy comes with an asterisk that Apple may keep others from spying at a mildly acceptable level, but Apple themselves will know a LOT about you. iMessage is E2EE (from iPhone to iPhone) but do you trust the trillion d...

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  "Phone-y" I see you OP.

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  Weird article. "I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things." What? NOBODY is confused what Copilot is because it is integrated into Microsoft Paint. It's a shitty Ai agent that they shove into their previous products. End of story.

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  Just don't connect it to the internet my dude.

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  Do you want push notifications from your browser? If so, then probably. Unified Push is a trusted, commonly used alternative to Play Services push notifications.

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  Depends on what features you need. For some people the whole idea is that you can take and make calls on your watch, as well as messaging. Sometimes the health tracking stuff requires a proprietary app instead of Gadget Bridge. The most private watches are glorified notification machines. I got my wife a Garmin Venu and she uses their app. It's not perfect but they're fairly private as far as smart watches go. She needs all the bells and whistles so that's the best I was able to fi...