It sort of means what you mean by "independence"; in this case it feels pretty strongly like "independence from Google", which I think is ambitious enough. I th

It sort of means what you mean by "independence"; in this case it feels pretty strongly like "independence from Google", which I think is ambitious enough. I think this is a pretty good guide for that (once email gets added), everything else you might want (some kind of notes sharing, some kind of messaging service, some kind of streaming audio/video service, some kind of file storage and backup) is less ubiquitous than contacts/calendar/email. Also OpenBSD + FDE is a strong choice.