To somewhat answer my own question, snips has a pretty active community which should hopefully be a good entree into the ecosystem of privacy-friendly hardware

To somewhat answer my own question, snips has a pretty active community which should hopefully be a good entree into the ecosystem of privacy-friendly hardware projects (discord, twitter, and https://github.com/snipsco/awesome-snips#community-projects https://github.com/snipsco/awesome-snips#community-projects)