[jmnicolas]

What's the point of having my own cloud as long as my devices are purposed built against my privacy?

AFAIK everything I type on my Windows machine is directly sent to MS servers. I assume the same for my Android phone.

Microsoft and Google ... I know it's the worst for privacy but my platform choices were made before I realized I was data mined.

I can't afford Apple, and frankly I think their privacy stance is more marketing than real care. Especially when I see the lengths they go to create a world were they OWN consumers.

Last Sunday I decided I had enough: I installed KDE Neon on my desktop. It failed to install drivers for my NVIDIA 950 gfx and proceeded to kill my sound card drivers in the process. So I installed Elementary OS (yes complete opposite from Neon). Graphic drivers were fine, but every time it played a sound it was preceded by a loud crack in my speakers. And it's not like it's fresh / unknown hardware, I assembled this PC between 2010 and 2012 (Intel Core i7 3770k on an Asus motherboard).

So I'm back on Windows, but at least it's a fresh install.