[kmarc]

While I mostly agree with you and the sentiment (and also a bit sad about it), I want to point it out that parting mainstream, staying explorative still helps you discover cool technologies and services outside big tech.

I kinda _depend_ now on syncthing, organicmaps (openstreetmaps), and maybe even Firefox's offline translation service (just to name solutions to those concerns you also mentioned).

Maybe the common theme here is "offline" (so that you are off the loop of big tech's services), and being offline has other positive consequence anyway.