Over the pandemic, as an ideological mission against surveillance capitalism, I went about as far as my technical skills could take me: self-hosting open source

Over the pandemic, as an ideological mission against surveillance capitalism, I went about as far as my technical skills could take me: self-hosting open source everything on a VPS, eliminating all FAANG software, Linux desktop, custom ROM on my Android. At the beginning, the amount of control I had over my data and my software was exhilarating. I learned a lot, and some of the changes will become permanent. But after about six months, I didn't have the free time any more to maintain all of that. I decided to switch to Apple's ecosystem and trust them to handle things for me. Yeah, I'm ideologically against some of their recent privacy and security moves. But at least they're not wholesale selling my data and attention to advertisers. I never did manage to find a suitable replacement for Google Maps, though I gave Organic Maps and OSMand a fair try. I tried ProtonMail and eventually switched to Fastmail. Still using Nextcloud for files, calendar and photos, but I'll probably switch to iCloud and/or Fastmail's options for those.