[unixrefugee]

Quite right. For about a year now, I have been toying with the idea of building my own personal heavily-encrypted infrastructure (email, storage, etc.) using someone like Digital Ocean. E2E encryption, encryption at rest, getting a domain and giving my friends email accounts that are encryted by default. None of my friends trust or use Facebook, Google, and some others because of not just recent happenings, but also because we see the writing on the wall.

Another thing I want to do on the server(s) is create a proxy "pass-through" that we can point all of our devices to that acts like a Pi-hole, stripping out ads, beacons, trackers, etc. I also want to create a remote desktop from which I can work that is heavily encrypted and all files are backed up not only locally, but remotely in a similar fully encrypted setup.